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Re: [Healeys] What a great day!

To: Alan Seigrist <healey.nut@gmail.com>, Tom Felts
Subject: Re: [Healeys] What a great day!
From: HealeyRick <healeyrick@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 18:31:24 -0700 (PDT)
Funny,  I was in my local garage this week getitng a vehicle inspection
sticker.  In one of the bays was sitting a very nice restored E-Type.  All i
could think of was how could a motoring industry that could produce something
as beautiful as  this drive itself into the ground?  If we looked at 1963
figures,  I'm sure the 289 Cobra, XK-E and most of the 327 Corvettes would
leave the Healey in the dust.  Nevertheless, the Healey was certainly "Top of
the Pops" for British sports cars.

Rick


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--- On Mon, 9/6/10, Tom Felts <tomfelts@windstream.net> wrote:

From: Tom Felts <tomfelts@windstream.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] What a great day!
To: "Alan Seigrist" <healey.nut@gmail.com>, "Tom Felts"
<tomfelts@windstream.net>, "Robert Duquette" <robertduquette@sympatico.ca>,
"Healeys" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, September 6, 2010, 8:30 PM

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The Moss box was only on the very first ones---changed to all-syncro in late
64 - early 65.

There's one thing to win a drag race--quite another to press the big numbers. 
Heck--you can put a 427 in a go cart and take on anyone but you still have a
go-cart.

I can't tell you how many "fast" drag cars peter out in the high ranges---the
E is still not too shabby 0-60, but get her on the open road and she will go
like crazy---and I can still take my old 44 year old girl out with the best of
them on the open road.

So----the most beautiful sports car ever made (the E-Type) still rocks!!:):)

Cheers
tom

---- Alan Seigrist <healey.nut@gmail.com> wrote:

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My Toyota Sienta MPV can take on the e-type. That Moss Box is like
shifting a bag of rocks, and that's after it's been rebuilt!

Alan
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