a few years ago, harrison ford's wife ( now ex ) gave him a BRG 3000 for his
b'day -- don't know where it ended up in the huge settlement harrison's ex
received.
jerry wall
Joe Armour wrote:
>
> The classic Gerry Coker design sucks another one in !!!!!
> David Ward, I was sitting watching the ANZAC Day activities giving out
> the message of the futility of war and flicking thro. the only magazine
> available when the perfect image of a wood-rimmed alloy steering wheel
> jumped out at me and those lovely round gauges filled the dash panel.
> After searching the remainder of the page I was to learn that the
> attractive woman was a certain Cindy Crawford [ is she an owner and is
> she on the list ? Was she having a day out with Harrison Ford ? ] and
> the apparent feature of the double page colour spread was a watch
> company known as Omega
> This was in the Australian current editions of Vogue [ Healeys have
> never been out of vogue in my world ] and is probably available in the
> rest of the world.
>
> The key element of a successful and smooth running car is ROUND tyres
> mounted on ROUND wheels controlled by a ROUND steering wheel and the
> progress and condition of the machine is monitored via ROUND gauges. All
> the engine bits must go ROUND,we dont doubt that .So where in the bloody
> hell did some designer get the idea of SQUARE cars and associated bits.
> For example how do rays of light find their way out of SQUARE headlights
> without some of them getting lost ? Long sided squares are called
> rectangles and these cut on the diagonal make wedges and fins. Best stop
> now or I will end up with Caddys, Corvairs and Ralph and whops,no more
> Healeys.
> PS Look for a picture of the BMW M3 powered Wiesmann Roadster that looks
> like a Healey [modernised] and fitted with a C-type Jag. grille. Could
> this have been connected with the mock-up shown by BMW in the last few
> years ? Looks good to me. Just happens to have ROUND headlights and
> curves [ these being made up of a series of part circumferences of
> ROUNDS] A beautiful straight six with 343HP and apparently popular with
> several BMW top execs.
>
> See Ya
> Joe
>
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