[Healeys] overheating

[Eric (Rick) Wilkins]

Of course. I was just further qualifying the answer to whether the car  
had been "driven in anger"
Certainly, I was just poking fun. That car did extremely well. Wasn't  
that also the best a Healey had done at Sebring?

1st in class and 17th overall is just damn good!


On Aug 1, 2010, at 7:50 PM, Joe and Lenore Armour wrote:

> Eric (Rick) Wilkins wrote:
>
>> yeah, but that car only got 17th place. oh... first in the 3 Liter  
>> GT  class.
>>
>> That's staying "cool"
>>
>> Wilko
>
> ERIC
> It is important to consider who finished ahead AND who the Healey  
> finished ahead of. Thre is some heavy iron that came after position  
> 17.
> Also in the extreme rain downpour the BMC cars were setting fastest  
> laps, with the LUCAS wipers and the LUCAS headlights and the LUCAS  
> fog lights and all powered by the LUCAS generator with crappy old  
> carbon brushes bounching across the joints in the armature!!!!!!
>
> Joe
> Blue One