JR,
Thank you for your frankness. I am pretty excited about the new car and am
OK with the new minis and even the Ford GT and pending Ford Shelby 500GT.
If I had my druthers I would rather have the originals though as you stated.
The stable would look like
100
3000
GT40
GT500
Mini
If I was rolling in dough I might add the new retros
Healey
Ford GT
Ford GT500
BMW Mini Cooper
For me sporting events are fun for me for the fans. Cars are fun for the
cars but also the people. If everyone rooted on the SF49ers it would be
boring eh? Well come to think of it everyone should cheer for the 49ers.
Healey on!
grin
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-healeys@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-healeys@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of John Rued
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 4:37 PM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: New Healey
The Healey family--Donald and Geof--still had engineering license to modify
the Austin-Healeys (look at the one-off "X": cars) as well as manage the
early competition cars--especially the road racers.
Their names will be synonymous with the cars that they had direct influence
over. And that includes everything through the one-off Escort they worked
on.
This new car should be judged on its own merit. It's a good looking car.
But there's something sketchy (not to mention sad) about capitalizing on the
name of others to promote a new make. I think it cheapens the original(s).
The car should be able to stand on its own merit.
Other than legal documents signing the name over from Margot, Kate, and
Celia, where is the Healey connection? (Please tell me the new investors
found a futuristic space-frame design in one of Donal's old steamer
trunks. )
(And, yes, I have issues with new Minis showing up at Brit events.)
But, it is a good looking car.
Just my opinion.
JR
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