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1. Compare a Healey it's contemporary (score: 1)
Author: "Leonard Berkowitz" <drberkowitz@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 20:48:39 -0400
We all love our Healey's or we would not own them. But do we really appreciate them? We drive cars today that all out perform and out handle our Healeys. I don't care what we are driving, from the lo
/html/healeys/2005-05/msg00458.html (8,595 bytes)

2. Re: Compare a Healey it's contemporary (score: 1)
Author: Eric (Rick) Wilkins <wilko2@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 18:42:52 -0700
Or to actually compare apples with apples. Back in the 50's and 60's the Healey was middle class. Roughly between an MG/Triumph and the Jag/Mercedes/Porsche, etc. of the time.
/html/healeys/2005-05/msg00460.html (8,268 bytes)

3. Re: Compare a Healey it's contemporary (score: 1)
Author: healeyolic <healey6@optonline.net>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 21:42:44 -0400
Yeah the modern stuff may be nice and go fast and are comfortable and don't smell and aren't hot as blazes and don't leave drops all over the road but how many people yell out at you with compliments
/html/healeys/2005-05/msg00461.html (9,442 bytes)

4. Re: Compare a Healey it's contemporary (score: 1)
Author: "Bob Spidell" <bspidell@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 20:12:22 -0700
"I don't care what we are driving, from the lowest Korean import to the exotics, or the luxury models, they probably all blow the doors off our beloved beasts. " Well, I regularly wax "Ultimate Driv
/html/healeys/2005-05/msg00464.html (9,465 bytes)

5. Re: Compare a Healey it's contemporary (score: 1)
Author: STEV0001@aol.com
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 23:57:51 EDT
Watch it, Bob! Some of us go "both ways" or ALL ways! Steve G BJ8 # 43007 '06' 530i 79 MGB 69 MBZ 280SE cabrio 67 Camaro conv. RS/SS 84 Ferrari Mondial etc.
/html/healeys/2005-05/msg00468.html (8,078 bytes)

6. Re: Compare a Healey it's contemporary (score: 1)
Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 06:55:21 -0400
Those of us who were driving in the '50s in the rural Midwest experienced nothing but American iron, for the most part, so my first Healey experience -- a Sprite, before moving up to a BJ8 -- was qui
/html/healeys/2005-05/msg00474.html (9,839 bytes)

7. Re: Compare a Healey it's contemporary (score: 1)
Author: "tom felts" <tomfelts@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 08:34:26 -0400
Guess I'm going to need you to define "wax". Having a 528I and a BJ8, I can speak from experience:) Oh--we only use the cell when driving the Healey:) tom handle driving Healey, mostly the you it won
/html/healeys/2005-05/msg00478.html (10,402 bytes)

8. Re: Compare a Healey it's contemporary (score: 1)
Author: "Bob Spidell" <bspidell@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 06:26:03 -0700
Guess I should have excluded present company (the List) and qualified my comment a little better. Driving my Healey in the windy, narrow roads in the hills around the SF Bay Area, I regularly come ac
/html/healeys/2005-05/msg00480.html (10,573 bytes)

9. Re: Compare a Healey it's contemporary (score: 1)
Author: "tom felts" <tomfelts@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:56:35 -0400
Drat Bob--One would think you had "BMW envy" :):):) Bay (randomly), keep up just bought performance pushing the challenging ... he left the Healey.
/html/healeys/2005-05/msg00481.html (11,383 bytes)

10. RE: Compare a Healey it's contemporary (score: 1)
Author: "Don" <don@anglesey.us>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 07:50:43 -0700
By the late 60's American muscle ruled and most could easily out run any Austin-Healey even in the corners! Ahhh, give me back the good old days of Road Hugger Orange. By the 70's the Austin-Healey'
/html/healeys/2005-05/msg00483.html (8,381 bytes)

11. Re: Compare a Healey it's contemporary (score: 1)
Author: LarryRPH@aol.com
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 11:11:24 EDT
Strangely enough, I see plenty of healey drivers , while on club rallys, driving the way your Boxster driver drove. Larry Wysocki BMW X5 (the ultimate driving experience) Mini Cooper S Convertible (
/html/healeys/2005-05/msg00485.html (8,286 bytes)

12. Re: Compare a Healey it's contemporary (score: 1)
Author: Eric (Rick) Wilkins <wilko2@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 08:12:26 -0700
Hardly. My old BMW 325is had 168 HP and weighed about the same as a Healey. Had independent suspension, 4 wheel discs, etc. Seriously outdid my healey in almost every way. Of course, I've sold two B
/html/healeys/2005-05/msg00486.html (9,360 bytes)

13. Re: Compare a Healey it's contemporary (score: 1)
Author: STEV0001@aol.com
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 11:23:47 EDT
Driving my Healey in the windy, narrow roads in the hills around the SF Bay...I regularly come across people in BMWs driving in such a way (randomly)...that I can easily keep up with them and pass th
/html/healeys/2005-05/msg00487.html (8,453 bytes)

14. Re: Compare a Healey it's contemporary (score: 1)
Author: Dean Caccavo <healeybn7@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:09:01 -0700 (PDT)
Having both a BN7 and an 88' M5 I offer the following Production: Healey BN7 (2,825) BMW M5 (1,200) Cool Factor: Healey 10+ (general population) BMW (6- in general) (8 to a hard core enthusiest) Colo
/html/healeys/2005-05/msg00492.html (9,748 bytes)

15. Re: Compare a Healey it's contemporary (score: 1)
Author: "Bob Spidell" <bspidell@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 17:57:50 -0700
Note the operative "get a chance." That means legally. I hope you drive more carefully than you read. bs ** Bob Spidell San Jose, CA bspidell@comcast.net '67 Austin-Healey 3000 '56 Austin-Healey 100M
/html/healeys/2005-05/msg00499.html (8,802 bytes)


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