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Re: way ot bond gt v8

To: RoadsterGB@aol.com, datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: way ot bond gt v8
From: lou daly <lou_daly@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:34:00 -0800 (PST)
Yep
that is
this was in richmond hill ontario (toronto-ish)
around 1975
lou


--- RoadsterGB@aol.com wrote:
> Hi Lou
> 
> Do you mean one of these?
> 
> www.bond-equipe.co.uk/x_4s2.jpg   (late version of
> early car)
> http://fp1.centurytel.net/pbarlow/other2.jpg   (Mk2)
> 
> All these cars had Triumph running gear from the
> Herald/Vitesse and Spitfire 
> - also had a Triumph Herald chassis - the largest
> lump was a 2 litre Vitesse 
> producing 100+hp - if this was like the car you test
> drove then it was an 
> engine swap.
> 
> They never went to the USA although a Canadian
> couple imported a batch of 
> Mk2s and sold them out of Ontario. A few of these
> found their way to the USA.
> 
> The TVRs came in kit form - ugly but very British
> and not much like a 
> Mustang. another possibility is the Trident - lovely
> looking fastback cars 
> built out of TVR moulds when TVR went into
> liquidation before being rescued. 
> 30 of these had 289s - a number of other engines
> were used. The last few had 
> 360ci engines.
> 
> http://www.tridentcarclub.fsnet.co.uk/
> 
> and check out the gallery. 
> 
> Rob
> www.fairlady.org 
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