Re: My old MG
- From: Phil Hobbs <pcdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 17:05:24 -0400
John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2007 17:07:07 -0700, JoergI thought it was an AC Ace?
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John Larkin wrote:
http://www.adrianart.com/mg.htmlNice!
Last week I parked next to an Austin Healey Coupe at Costco. Couldn't help but marvel at it. Looked like new, had this color:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:1958.austin-healey.100slash6.arp.750pix.jpg
Beautiful.
An elderly lady came up and said she'd bought it used in 1961. Drove it as an every day vehicle ever since, never owned anything else. She must be the auto industry's nightmare. Just imagine, buying a car when you are 20 or so and then driving that same vehicle until the day you keel over or where DMV won't renew your license anymore. Amazing.
The old Healeys were magnificant. The first Cobra was a healey with a
small-block Ford V8 jammed in, as I recall. I knew a guy who had one;
the original tires lasted one week.
British cars had soul. The Mini, then the Austin America, were the
first "modern" cars... transverse engine, transaxle, front-wheel
drive. Jags were high art. Somehow the brit cars had soul *and*
technology and they blew it anyhow.
John
Cheers,
Phil Hobbs
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