Bravo Chris!
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Dimmock<mailto:austin.healey@gmail.com>
To: Tom Felts<mailto:tomfelts@windstream.net>
Cc: Forum<mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] 100-Six with XK150 engine for sale
And some of us would say the maths - or engineering - or lack thereof
- is why E types never excelled on any motorsport dais in their era.
Oh wait. Except for those lightweights. And those aluminium block
cars. Yeah. Production cars. All six of them..
Well, the only Healey with an aluminium block didn't ever race or
rally, in the era. But the production Healeys still opened a huge old
can of wooppass on the E Type back in the day, and still do in
Historics.
Just ask Dennis Welch.
The beauty and charm of every Austin Healey was that it was
agricultural.
Alfas, Lancias, Jags, Lambos, Ferraris, Aston Martins, whatever, were
so high tech you can't fix it yourself....
But agricultural high performance - Healeys - from Sprites to 100's to
3000's - and all the stuff you can do yourself to make the go faster
or just enjoy as standard and fix as you go - that's the Holy Grail.
At least for me anyway.
Chris
PS.
And I love the purposeful look and sound of a 3000 over the look of a
cigar shaped, and undertyred e type, anyday.
PPS. I take back what I said earlier about engineering of that 3.8
100/6 - that 3.8 100/6 still has a C Series Healy Diff!!! Ooooohhhh
old fashioned solid rear axle.... At least Doddsies 3.8 bugeye has a
high tech suspension rear end...
;-)
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On 23/07/2011, at 9:00 PM, Tom Felts
<tomfelts@windstream.net<mailto:tomfelts@windstream.net>> wrote:
> Hummmm--some of us would say the 4.2 is the "Grande Dame":):)
>
>
> ---- Alan Seigrist <healey.nut@gmail.com<mailto:healey.nut@gmail.com>>
wrote:
>
> =============
> A final note - the 3.8 E-Type is the grande dame of LBCs, and
> absolutely gem to drive on a big road and the ladies will love every
> minute of it. But to be honest I find the shifting, steering and esp.
> braking on the BJ8 to be a more sophisticated experience. The E-type
> motor is a better motor with oodles of power, but the 6cyl iron pig in
> the BJ8 sounds more sporty to me. All in all the BJ8, when suspension
> is properly sorted, is an excellent driving car. Of course the
> handling of the 100 outclasses them all.
>
> On 7/23/11, Alan Seigrist
<healey.nut@gmail.com<mailto:healey.nut@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Moss box. Oy... I helped my friend do a complete rebuild for his
>> early S1 E-type. A rudimentary box that frankly, no matter how good
>> you get it, shifts like a bag of...
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