Just an FYI......nice little snipet on Saturday's TNN Car & Driver on the AH3000 Mk 3...comes only a few weeks after the short flashback on the TR3!!! Eventhough I'm partial by ownership and passion
I saw an hour long show on the History Channel this weekend on the history of Jaguar. Interesting that in the show the XK-120 was touted as the "poor man's Ferrari" and the article that Chip mentione
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:07:02 -0500 charset="iso-8859-1"
One step farther, that would make MG's a poor man's Triumph! Regards, Greg 76 TR6 68 MGB/GT <I saw an hour long show on the History Channel this weekend on the history of Jaguar. Interesting that in
Bur can be had for significantly less! So I guess that proves my point! Joe -- "If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort." -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer
And in typical Standard/Triumph manner (later to be found with Kastner!), the SS (name dropped after ww2 suprisingly) put out more BHP than the standard 'Standard' !! Johnny '70 Viterald
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 1980 20:53:35 -0500charset="iso-8859-1"
Outhandles? Yes. Looks better? Well, IMO, yes. Out powers? Don't think so. Stock for stock, the AH is more powerful. Mod for mod, the AH is still more powerful. Ain't no replacement for displacement
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So that would make my Spitfire a poverty-stricken Ferrari? :-) Ron and Angie - Dalton, Ga 84 300ZX Turbo 77 Spitfire 92 Tempo GLS 62 Vitesse IZCC# 4779
<< Ain't no replacement for displacement. >> Didn't someone say, "It's torque that wins races." or something to that effect. I forget who. But isn't that why Lotus did so well at Indy years ago? I am
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 1980 23:38:07 -0500charset="iso-8859-1"
OK, Kirk, simple, The more air and fuel you can pump into an engine, the more power it will make. Displacement is "how much" air and fuel you can put into an engine. You have a TR8. Now would you tr
<< Like I said, "Ain't no replacement for displacement." >> Thanks for the tutorial Ron. No replacement for the wisdom a body can learn from this list. Kirk Yonker 81 TR8 Fi
would you really like to have a 1200lb Lotus with a 100hp 1.5L I'll take the Elan with the 130bhp 1600, a big ole heavy 2.5 out front will shaft the handling. To paraphase pirelli (most recently) "po
Kirk & Ron... "NOTHING succeeds like cubic dollars" Greg Petrolati gpetrola@prairienet.org 1962 TR4 (CT4852L) "That's not a leak... My car is just marking its territory!" Greg Petrolati, Champaign, I
still I'm not a Healy expert, but didn't the 300 have a 4 cyl engine? I remember driving one years ago, and it was very underpowered. Maybe I'm getting confused with another model. The 3000 is a dif
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If memory serves correct, AH 100-4 was a four cyl, 100-6 was a six, and then the final and most powerful incarnation was the 3000 which of course was a six. I'm not familiar with a "300". And, althou
Thanks to 144 ft-lbs. of torque (but "only" 90 HP), the 100-4 Austin-Healey (2660cc) would out accelerate all the later cars Healeys, up until the last 3000s, the BJ8. There is no substitute for torq