This excerpt was pulled from Scott Fisher #1's previous
posting about mid-engined brit-cars, and I thought it a
good oppourtunity to test the collective wisdom of the
SOLers. Question appended at the end.
>>There were two very interesting mid-engined cars designed with mass-
production in mind. One of them, code-named WAEC, was a special built
by Geoff Healey and his crew out at The Cape. Using a 1275S Mini Cooper
engine and transaxle, this car stuck the power unit behind the driver,
gave it a sort of targa bar (like the X 1/9, 914, and others) for
rigidity and a removable canvas top for fun, and was considered as a
Sprite/Midget replacement in about 1965. Unfortunately, BMC management
at its best was scarcely better than BL management, so they canceled
the project because -- get this, this one kills me -- "sports car owners
are too conservative to accept such a radical change." Idiots. Think
about running one of THOSE in F Production... <<
And the question is, what does WAEC stand for ? (no Scott, not you)
The first correct answer entitles the submitter to feel smug.
cheers-
dstone@sc9.intel.com
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