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Re: SP250

To: RIVERSIDE SPORTS CARS <RIVERSIDE@Cedar-Rapids.net>
Subject: Re: SP250
From: Susan and John Roper <vscjohn@huntnet.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 16:06:10 -0600
Damn Art, you're one hell of a man!  John

RIVERSIDE SPORTS CARS wrote:

> I suppose now is a good time to get out of the closet, too.  My claims to
> illigitimate membership in this group is my ancient racing history in a 3
> and my current ownership of a semiretired TRgoddam 4A race car.
> Interest in and ownership of other leaky rusty toys seems to be a current
> topic.  I have had a lifelong lust for Studebakers including the '58 Packard
> Hawk.  Take a look at the beak on that beast and you would logicaly
> conclude it was styled by the same guy who did the 250.   I can sure see
> how some folks
> consider these cars homely, but they seem distinctive and attractive to me.
> Mosher's racer looks especially badass.
>         About a year ago I spent too much of a cold night under the car
> Joe A. has brought to our attention.  There is at least as much different as
> similar to TR.   It seems to me that the car was in all of its aspects
> derivative.
> The suspension from TR,  the engine from Chrysler, the styling from the
> Hawk.
> The 250 interior is very nice  design btw.   Rust worm loves all the goofy
> brackets
> that support the glass body.  The owner has a magnigicent collection of
> literature and manuals for the car.  David Manners LTD of GB supplied me
> w/ a catalog of spares for 250's.
>         I drive a TRgoddam7 ragtop as a daily beater.  The race car
> was supposed to replace it as daily driver, but rides so blasted hard that
> am considering retaining the wedge.  I have located a TR& w/ a 250 V8
> installed that is for sale.   It sounds like a marriage made in Hell, so I
> will
> probobly persue.
> art de armond
>
> TR4A
> TR7
>  XJ6
> 59 Stude Hawk
> 64 Stude p'up
>




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