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1. How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: caws52803@aol.com
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 14:11:27 -0500
I have been curious how did you listers get so enthused about the LBC you own. How did you get involved with that car? When I came out of college in 1960, I saw a used 58 Austin-Healey 100/Six for sa
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00153.html (7,887 bytes)

2. RE: How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: "BJ8Healeys" <sbyers@ec.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:14:27 -0800
In '84, it was time for my midlife crisis. I needed an additional car and the Fieros had just come out. They certainly seemed different to me than the usual car, and although they were not my cup of
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00159.html (9,165 bytes)

3. Re: How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: "Greg Lemon" <glemon@neb.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 15:05:32 -0600
Oh Rudy, that is a big question. I started out as a car freak at a young age racing Aurora HO slot cars, my older brother got a Sprite painted like a red white and blue racing Datsun 510, as his seco
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00161.html (9,299 bytes)

4. Re: How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: jomar healey <ah53@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 15:15:04 -0800 (PST)
When I married my wife I came with a 1967 Corvette street racer. The deal was I would sell it when she was with child. Seven years later "the Kid" came along ant the vette was sold - needed to pay th
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00169.html (9,038 bytes)

5. Re: How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: "James Lea" <clocks@midcoast.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:20:58 -0500
<I have been curious how did you listers get so enthused about the LBC you own. How did you get involved with that car?> I graduated for high school in 55 and needed a first car but could get no help
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00170.html (10,266 bytes)

6. RE: How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: healeyolic <healey6@optonline.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:27:05 -0500
OK. For me, it has been a life long love affair. My first car was a 48 Ford which I bought with paper delivery money when I was 15 (1955) I learned how to remove an engine and tranny and rebuild them
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00171.html (10,360 bytes)

7. RE: How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: healeyolic <healey6@optonline.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:57:22 -0500
Well you just cost me 25 bucks. Went immediately to amazon.com and ordered the book. Interestingly, the first customer review was from someone reminiscing on his sprite that he had years ago. John Si
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00172.html (9,055 bytes)

8. RE: How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: ahmcmlix@aol.com
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:59:01 -0500
Not sure I picked it, or it picked me. My car belonged to my sister and brother in law and was brought to California on a tow dolly because the car didn't run. It sat in my dad's garage for a couple
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00173.html (8,600 bytes)

9. Re: How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: "Mark Endicott" <mark@nashvilletn.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:08:40 -0600
In the game of I can top that; here is my story. In 1954 I met a little girl that changed my life forever. I was only 9 and she was 8 but we really hit it off, we spent all summer together. Then the
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00174.html (9,916 bytes)

10. Re: How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: Alan Schultz <alan@andysnet.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:12:48 -0600
Back in the early 60's both of my brother's-in-law owned Healey roadsters. Got to drive one and remember my older brother-in-law getting real excited when I took some curves at higher than normal spe
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00175.html (9,697 bytes)

11. Re: How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: ahmcmlix@aol.com
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:21:03 -0500
Was reading the entries and thought this would be a neat article or column in the Healey Marque Magazine....... Bob
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00177.html (8,470 bytes)

12. How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: "G. Brierton" <gbrierton@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:45:20 -0500
I've told this story before so if you find it redundant, delete. As a farm boy in the midwest, I was turned on to LBCs by "The Red Car" and Tom McCahill's columns in Mechanics Illustrated. My first c
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00182.html (10,402 bytes)

13. RE: How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: bspidell@comcast.net (Bob Spidell)
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:11:34 +0000
I was into cars as a kid and always wanted a Cobra or a GT40 (Dad was a factory rep for Ford, thus the bias), but got interested in Healeys because they kinda looked like Cobras (well, to a 10-year o
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00183.html (9,607 bytes)

14. Re: How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: healeybn7@aol.com
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:43:12 -0500
My story is short and of course, sweet. 1972. High school. Senior year. Some guys were renting a house across the street from our house. One of the guys had a car. It sat so low I wondered how it mad
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00184.html (9,437 bytes)

15. RE: How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: "Len and/or Marge" <thehartnetts@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:44:54 -0800
I was stationed with the US Air Force in France where a friend had a big Healey. In the four years that I was stationed there, I went to the race at Le Mans three times, 1960, 1961, and 1963. (On pag
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00185.html (12,075 bytes)

16. RE: How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: "tom felts" <tomfelts@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 22:07:09 -0500
First an MGA--sold it after college. Then a 66 XKE--sold it when transferred to Holland. Went civilian and moved to Evansville In. Saw the BJ8 in a lot with weeds and a small tree growing around and
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00188.html (9,921 bytes)

17. Re: How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: Dave Carpenter <d.carpenter7@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:15:23 -0500
You can use my tale: My sister's boyfriend in high school came to pick her up in his brother's brand new ice blue BJ8. I wouldn't let him leave until I had a ride. He took me a couple times after tha
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00189.html (9,042 bytes)

18. Re: How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: "John Soderling" <jsoderling@astound.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:27:35 -0800
Regarding the subject, that's a great question. Wait to read Editor Gary's January 2006 issue of Austin Healy Magazine to find out. Just a little teaser to create some anticipation. Vrooom vrooom, J
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00190.html (9,839 bytes)

19. RE: How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: "Ron Davies" <rdavies1@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:41:11 -0800
I grew up in southern California and in '65 at 16 I got a '64 blue BJ8. I only paid $1,800 for it in perfect condition. Daily driver, ski patrol, surfing, schools, cross country, put about 80,000 mil
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00191.html (9,900 bytes)

20. Re: How did we pick our Marque? (score: 1)
Author: FloridaDiving@aol.com
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 23:09:46 EST
Not nearly as cool a story as all of yours (very interesting stuff!) ....but here goes. I guess this can serve as my introduction to you guys. Just call me lucky, I guess, to be the niece of a man wi
/html/healeys/2006-01/msg00192.html (11,273 bytes)


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