The statement "Don't forget it was the Japanese that borrowed the Brit's technology in the 60's.... and through reverse engineering ... All things are possible..." isn't exactly correct. Not much rev
There is a story, possibly apocryphal, that there were three Austin Healeys in Japan prior to the introduction of the Datsun 240Z. All were owned by Datsun... You can snopes it and maybe disprove it,
Author: "Patrick and Caroline Quinn" <p_cquinn@tpg.com.au>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:23:33 +1100
G'day All If you have a few minutes to spare you might like to have a look at an article I prepared some years back. It's at: http://www.acmefluid.com.au/larry/austinnissan.html Actually it was two 3
Read an article a while back--in Auto Restorer, I think--about the Z. IIRC, the chassis was based on a Triumph design (think the Z has IRS). The carburettors were SU copies made under license by Hita
The story I got back in '71 was that it was a Heale and an XKE coupe that reproduced the 240Z. There was another story that it was 2 Healey's but still a XKE Jag coupe. The Japanesse were very well
I remember when the Miata was introduced, Mazda advertised they had recorded sounds of British sports cars to get the exhaust note sound right: http://www.canadiandriver.com/2005/10/11/feature-mazdas
I knew Bob Hall and his brother Jim back when they were first out of high school. The article is correct about him liking British cars. In the group of guys that hung together there was at various ti
Datsun/Nissan started with the assembly of CKD kits from Austin, not the most advanced automotive design at the time. When they started to build cars on their own accord they were technically very si
A very interresting article which enlarged my very limited knowlegde of the early Japanese cars considerably. Thanks. Kees Oudesluijs NL Patrick and Caroline Quinn schreef: _________________________
HBJ8L/41737 was owned in Japan prior to 22 January 1969 by someone who was a civilian employee of the U.S. Army, and HBJ8/42183 was dispatched from the factory to Japan on 17 August 1967, so there we
Yes true about their figher planes being well designed but the engines were made under license from Pratt & Whitney so Pearl Harbor was bombed with warplanes powered by US war technology. Later in th
Back in the early '90s, I was baffled one day when I opened my latest Safety Fast! (MG Car Club) magazine and saw a picture of a Miata in the Table of Contents. Turns out one of the Miata's Japanese
And let's not forget the Toyota 2000 GT. A little gem, and prior to the Herb Miller --Original Message-- From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Oude
Donald (or maybe Geoffrey) said really bad things about the Honda S500-800 in one of the Healey books they wrote in comparing it to the Sprite, but I have also read some fairly good reviews of the ca
I often race with a fellow who drives an S800--the car is fast! See below--44 HP from 531 cc's is approximately 80 HP per litre, whereas most British pushrod engines of the era were putting out appro
My mom had an S800 when we lived in Japan in the 60s when my dad was flying out of Tachikawa. For sure the Sprite was pound for pound a more reliable and faster track car, but the S800 revved over 75
Don't know about the S500, but we had S600s and S800s here. The s600 was literally a motorcycle drivetrain fitted to a car body. Literally. Chain drive to the rear wheels (not a tail shaft) and an ai
Author: "Patrick and Caroline Quinn" <p_cquinn@tpg.com.au>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:56:13 +1100
I have had the pleasure of driving both the Honda S600 and S800. Both great little cars. In both, the 4-cylinder DOHC engines are jewels and will easily rev to 10,000rpm. At that speed I can't vouch
Chris, I cannot agree on that. There was no way a Sprite could compete with the S800. OK, it was a bit spartan, but so was the original Sprite. Later Sprites and Midgets had a different suspension se