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Re: Austin Healey 100

To: "davidwjones" <davidwjones@cox.net>,
Subject: Re: Austin Healey 100
From: "HoYo" <hoyo@bellsouth.net>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 14:15:35 -0600
Back in college , i used to call my '70 B/GT ,
a 'baby' Jaguar (E-Type)
                                     " life was so much simpler then"'
                                                    HoYo


> Bob,
> I used to have an MGB-GT when I was in my 20s, (Can't recall the model
year,
> ..but well before the ride height adjustment and the big bumpers). I had
more
> fun with that car than any other I have ever had. I wish I still had it.
> I just meant that to the average onlooker, any LBC is "an MG or
something".
> (Ever have to replace a "gulp valve"?)
> David W. Jones
> '62 Mk II BT7 tricarb
> Cumberland, RI USA
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Bob Tarwater
>   To: davidwjones
>   Cc: Healey List
>   Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 12:11 AM
>   Subject: Re: Austin Healey 100
>
>
>   Dave
>
>   I was going to reply to your post and defend the honor of my one owner
>   1971 MGB-GT until I remembered the day a few years ago when a guy asked
>   me, "what year is your Pinto"? They can't get any worse than that!
>
>   Cheers
>   Bob Tarwater
>   BJ7 and a 1971 pinto look alike
>
>   davidwjones wrote:
>
>   >I'm laughing, because half the time I pull up anywhere, someone
> "compliments"
>   >me by saying: "Wow!, Nice MG!!"  -If they don't know enough to know the
>   >difference, I should care?
>   >Dave J.




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