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Re: High Profile Healey

To: sebring@illawarra.hotkey.net.au, healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: High Profile Healey
From: tammie wall <whammie@iopener.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:19:59 -0500
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
 > 
 > Your messages not reaching the list?




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