Ah, but all was not lost. Donald Healey grabbed hold of the opportunity to
use up those 2660cc engines, and a lot of the mechanical components and
designed and marketed the prettiest British sportscar the 1950's ever saw,
the Austin Healey Hundred.
Rich Chrysler
----- Original Message -----
From: <WSpohn4@aol.com>
To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: Austin
> In a message dated 09/02/2005 7:59:44 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> owner-mgs-digest@autox.team.net writes:
>
> At one point in the book an a story about Austin motors was related. When
> Austin was told that a car was not ready to be released to the public, he
> told
> them to release it anyway and let the customers find the problems. No
> wonder
> Austin sales dropped precipitously, and British quality dropped to zero.
>
> ____________________________________
>
> I wonder if that was the A90 Atlantic 'Triclops' episode - the Brits were
> apparently gob-smacked when this ungainly creation tanked in North
> American
> sales - for some reason they expected it to have great appeal to this
> market.
>
> Maybe they had amateur sales consultants as well as engineers...........
>
>
> Bill
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