Damned traitors!
Cheers,
Chris
BJ8
----- Original Message -----
From: "Len and/or Marge" <thehartnetts@earthlink.net>
To: "Healeys Mail List" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 5:45 PM
Subject: Friday Funny
> In today's newspaper column, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, (Click and Clack Talk
> Cars) respond to a question from a 25-year-old graduate student who is
> interested in purchasing an older two-door convertible car that is fun to
> drive, reliable and relatively inexpensive to maintain/repair. The
> student states that he really likes MGs but he read somewhere that they
> need frequent maintenance.
>
> Ray's response was that his brother has an old MG. He can attest to the
> fact that it never requires any maintenance - only emergency repairs.
> He's too busy rebuilding the engine, retrieving wheels that have fallen
> off and putting out stubborn engine fires to worry about maintenance.
>
> Tom chimes in with a recommendation that if the MG is the type of car he
> is looking for - a small, two-seat British sports car - then he should set
> his sights on a Mazda Miata. "That basically does everything a classic
> British sports car was supposed to do, except leak oil".
>
> (The Other) Len
> Vacaville, CA
> 1967 3000 MKIII HBJ8L39031
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