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 designers owned a TC--and therefore
understood what a true sports car was like....
Sarah Carr
BN1 in PA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Ewald" <richard.ewald@gmail.com>
To: "HealeyRick" <healeyrick@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Patrick Yoas" <pyoas@yahoo.com>; "Healey Forum"
<healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 11:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Start of the Japanese Auto Industry
>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 times 100-4, 100-6,
> Spitfire, Sprite/Midgets, MGB, P1800 You get the idea. He used the Lotus
> Elan as a design inspiration for the Miata.
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