# Are there any extinct cars? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 21, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-extinct-cars/473928 "2008-11-21T23:22:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-extinct-cars/473928/21 "2008-11-22T18:30:30Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > I’m ashamed to admit I had one of those buggers when I was a bit _borassic_. Please translate for a dense American. Is this a Britishism? Don’t recognize it. Very much open to interpretation in the context in which it’s used. Young? Young and stupid? Rich? Drunk? Short? Invisible? ---
**Author:** ![hammos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@hammos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hammos1)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-extinct-cars/473928/22 "2008-11-22T18:37:01Z")
Rhyming slang. Borassic (actually boracic) lint = skint = short of money. ---
**Author:** ![CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-extinct-cars/473928/23 "2008-11-22T18:38:21Z")
:smack: How could I have not figured that out? ---
**Author:** ![CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-extinct-cars/473928/24 "2008-11-22T18:40:10Z")
Borassic lint? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-extinct-cars/473928/25 "2008-11-22T18:48:21Z")
> [@CC](#): > > Borassic lint? [Boracic lint](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boracic_lint) ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-extinct-cars/473928/26 "2008-11-22T18:48:40Z")
> [@hammos1](#): > > Rhyming slang. Borassic (actually boracic) lint = skint = short of money. My bad, I’m a bit flushed with success seeing as how my football team won and I’m not quite over it. Spelling is as you say and for the benefit of **CC** Boracic lint is a type of surgical dressing also Cockney rhyming slang for skint. Skint=Broke ---
**Author:** ![CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-extinct-cars/473928/27 "2008-11-22T19:14:43Z")
See, you get credit for saying “My bad.” That makes you a little bit of both us and them. Now I gotta start saying B’rassic to refer to my own skinty days. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-extinct-cars/473928/28 "2008-11-22T21:06:42Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > The Lada Riva. > > I’m ashamed to admit I had one of those buggers when I was a bit borassic. > > Drove like a tank,a 3 point turn was a 15 pointer, the heater was shite,the wipers were non-wipish (more smearish) and the catalytic converter smelt like rotten eggs. > > I sold it my cousin after a few months and he’s never spoken to me since No dice, still being produced in 2006: > **[Lada Riva](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lada_Riva)** > > The Lada / VAZ-2105, 2104 and 2107, collectively marketed as Lada Riva for right-hand drive models (in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand), the Lada Nova in Germany, and by multiple other names and markets, are a series of compact sedans of the Zhiguli line-up (Fiat 124-based cars), built by Russian car manufacturer AvtoVAZ (formerly VAZ). Introduced in 1979 in the Soviet Union, and progressively introduced to Western European and global markets from the early 1980s, under the Lada ... I doubt it’ll ever be extinct. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-extinct-cars/473928.md?page=1)