Alembic cars.

[adriaan]

You're reading too much into it (and Flip already broke the code). Besides, the car came to us within a week after the bass, as it happens. Alembics are dirt cheap, as compared to premium cars.

[lbpesq]

Having lived through the Vietnam era, I just can't understand calling a car a "KIA".  (And I still don't get "the code" here).

Bill, tgo

[adriaan]

A Series instrument has two SC1 single coils and an HX dummy humcanceller. My license plate starts HX, duh.

[jwright9]

I still don’t get it either.

[lbpesq]

You mean the connection is that this license plate has an HX and one can refer to the humcancelling dummy PU as "HX"  (a reference I've never heard before)? 

How about this one:

My license plate has a "336" in it.  336 is only one more than 335, a model of Gibson guitar that looks a lot like a Guild Starfire which was the basis for Phil's Godfather bass!

Bill, tgo

[edwardofhuncote]

I'm waiting for someone to post an Europa, Elan, or Spyder. You know... Alembic cars!   

[FC Bass]

Bill: I did a cut 'n paste from the product page: http://www.alembic.com/prod/seriesi.html :-)

[adriaan]

This is actually a Kia Elan ..

[Zut8083]

Jon-hey, it happens.

Adriaan- that's clever, very clever.  I honestly thought you were reflected in the paint on the lower left handside of the car, wearing an Alembic t-shirt with the lettering and the divine hand holding the ouroboros all reversed, with a second person shown in the car's sigil while taking the picture.

Then, I read the correct answer and the situation became much more simplified, and not a budding 60's CIA conspiracy theory.

Good for you for being very sneaky!  Especially with the pseudo-double entendre.  The rabbit-hole goes deeper still!

[lbpesq]

I beleive the Elan and the Europa were named after the Lotus Elan and Europa sports cars.  If I remember the story correctly, Ron and Susan had a Lotus when they founded Alembic.

Bill, tgo

[elwoodblue]

Having lived through the Vietnam era, I just can't understand calling a car a "KIA"...

Bill, tgo

 I'm with you on this one Bill.
 Does it come with a GPS called "MIA" ? 

[edwardofhuncote]

I was curious, so I looked it up... the Korean characters for Kia roughly translate to; "to come out of Asia, or The East". I also did not realize the roots of Hyundai (the parent company) date back to 1944.


I save those good Alembic stickers for my cases... my cars wouldn't know how to act! 

[smokin_dave]

Well here is my Alembic car.

[serialnumber12]

  kool

[serialnumber12]