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Re: Rebirth of Healey?

To: <Daniel1312@aol.com>, <justbrits@mediaone.net>, <tannen@babson.edu>, <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Rebirth of Healey?
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:07:59 -0800
References: <54.10926f43.27cd69da@aol.com>
This thing looks like the kit car available here in the US. I think it's
called the "Sebring". It looks kind of ok in pictures but up close it too
looks like a POS (HOS) MK1.

Larry Miller

----- Original Message -----
From <Daniel1312 at aol.com>
To: <justbrits@mediaone.net>; <tannen@babson.edu>;
<spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: Rebirth of Healey?


> It is in fact, IMHO a HOS (heap of ........)  It looks cheap and garish
and
> look a cheap kit car.  I have seen a few of these over a number of years
and
> they just plain look horrid.  As someone who has also seen a big Healey
that
> was custom modified (went down like a lead balloon at a Healey meet) there
is
> still no comparasion.  You need to perhaps, actually see the car to
> appreciate how awful it is.
>
> Now, the new Mini is a car that looks just right.
>
> As for Beamer, if they are going to resurrect any name, it will be one
they
> do own (and they cannot use the Healey name any more than Austin could
after
> the agreement expired) it will  RILEY and they have said as much.  I think
it
> is just the ill-informed non-motoring or amateur motoring press that
> speculate about a return of Austin-Healey (in complete ignorance of the
> history of the Healey name).
>
> Daniel1312
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 27/02/01 11:29:37 Pacific Standard Time,
> justbrits@mediaone.net writes:
>
> << <<The HMC Sports Car is an evocative replica of the classic Healey
Sports
>  Car but with all the advantages of modern engineering and refinement.
"It's
>  a replica that honours the original rather than debases its legacy" -
>  Autocar Feb '99. The HMC marque is internationally recognised as one of
the
>  finest reproduction motor cars hand-built today. >>
>
>  It is NOT a "Healey" .
>
>  Ed

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