----- Original Message -----
From: davidwjones
To: Richard Hosmer ; healeys@autox.team.net
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: Healey on comeback trail?
I dunno, Dick, ---aren't you talking "Miata" or "Z" ---with pseudo Healey
bodywork? I'd welcome a repli-Healey for posers, -just about as much as I'm
sure MG owners do those VW powered "TFs".
Now if it were a thoroughly modern design, with a Healey flavor, like the BMW
prototype was.....Then I could go for that. -It would revive the marque,
popularize Healeys of all sorts, --but could not be confused with "original"
Healeys -which require a commitment beyond writing a check, from the owners.
My 2 cents.
David W. Jones
'62 Mk II BT7 tricarb
Cumberland, RI USA
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Hosmer
To: Patton Dickson ; Healey List
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: Healey on comeback trail?
Patton,
That WOULD be exciting. Just think of a brand-new Healey, all fresh and
tight, UNDER WARRANTY, with modern electrical components, modern
ventilation
and insulating, a modern suspension (at least at the front) perhaps with a
Nissan V6 and 5-speed? There would be NO need or reason to change the body
at all, except that, made on a modern(ized) line, the panels would probably
fit! I'd opt to come as close as I could to the early Hundreds, with no
door
handles, and that great folding windscreen, but with precision hardware and
modern seals.
Outside of Healeys, perhaps my all-time favorite candidate for resurrection
would be the ORIGINAL 289 Cobra, before the drop-dead gorgeous AC bodywork
got raped by the 18" wide tire crowd. 0-60 in what? 6 something, with a top
speed of over 150 on the same gearing, and would still get over 20mpg?
Oh damn, I woke up.
Dick Hosmer
1962 BT7 tri-carb
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