Didn't this attempt get delayed until next year?
Larry Hoy
Denver, CO. USA
1969 MGB Roadster
1987 Jaguar XJ6 VDP
"It's not how fast you go, it's how fast you go fast"
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> -----Original Message-----
> List,
>
> This is just off the latest issue of 'Automotive Industries' magazine
> (8/98). The following is quoted from that issue:
>
> "MG Goes Back To The Future"
>
> "As automakers look to past triumphs for present glory, nobody
> needs something to crow about more than MG. The long-dormant brand
> hopes to repeat history 40 years later by setting a speed record at the
> Bonneville Flats in Utah."
> "In 1959, Phil Hill, who became America's first F1 world
> champion, drove an MG streamliner across Bonneville to a class record
> 254.91 mph. This year MG will send a factory team to Bonneville in an
> effort to break that 39-year-old mark. Rover engineers figure the car
> will need 600 hp to crack 255 mph. They hope to produce 900 hp with a
> twin-supercharged Rover V-8, the same Buick-based engine that powers the
> Range Rover."
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> Ed Nunez
> 75B - longing for attention
>
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