Naw,
Give me the original Hundred any day. It's the relatively unrefined period
look, feel, and primitive (by today's standards) construction that gives the
car the flavour and charm we all love.
Otherwise I'd own a Miata.
Rich Chrysler
----- Original Message -----
From: "davidwjones" <davidwjones@cox.net>
To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 4:17 PM
Subject: Fw: Healey on comeback trail?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: davidwjones
> To: Richard Hosmer ; healeys@autox.team.net
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 4:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Healey on comeback trail?
>
>
> I dunno, Dick, ---aren't you talking "Miata" or "Z" ---with pseudo Healey
> bodywork? I'd welcome a repli-Healey for posers, -just about as much as
> I'm
> sure MG owners do those VW powered "TFs".
> Now if it were a thoroughly modern design, with a Healey flavor, like the
> BMW
> prototype was.....Then I could go for that. -It would revive the marque,
> popularize Healeys of all sorts, --but could not be confused with
> "original"
> Healeys -which require a commitment beyond writing a check, from the
> owners.
> My 2 cents.
>
> David W. Jones
> '62 Mk II BT7 tricarb
> Cumberland, RI USA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Richard Hosmer
> To: Patton Dickson ; Healey List
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 3:32 PM
> Subject: Re: Healey on comeback trail?
>
>
> Patton,
>
> That WOULD be exciting. Just think of a brand-new Healey, all fresh and
> tight, UNDER WARRANTY, with modern electrical components, modern
> ventilation
> and insulating, a modern suspension (at least at the front) perhaps with
> a
> Nissan V6 and 5-speed? There would be NO need or reason to change the
> body
> at all, except that, made on a modern(ized) line, the panels would
> probably
> fit! I'd opt to come as close as I could to the early Hundreds, with no
> door
> handles, and that great folding windscreen, but with precision hardware
> and
> modern seals.
>
> Outside of Healeys, perhaps my all-time favorite candidate for
> resurrection
> would be the ORIGINAL 289 Cobra, before the drop-dead gorgeous AC
> bodywork
> got raped by the 18" wide tire crowd. 0-60 in what? 6 something, with a
> top
> speed of over 150 on the same gearing, and would still get over 20mpg?
>
> Oh damn, I woke up.
>
> Dick Hosmer
> 1962 BT7 tri-carb
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