The Moss box was only on the very first ones---changed to all-syncro in late 64
- early 65.
There's one thing to win a drag race--quite another to press the big numbers.
Heck--you can put a 427 in a go cart and take on anyone but you still have a
go-cart.
I can't tell you how many "fast" drag cars peter out in the high ranges---the E
is still not too shabby 0-60, but get her on the open road and she will go like
crazy---and I can still take my old 44 year old girl out with the best of them
on the open road.
So----the most beautiful sports car ever made (the E-Type) still rocks!!:):)
Cheers
tom
---- Alan Seigrist <healey.nut@gmail.com> wrote:
=============
My Toyota Sienta MPV can take on the e-type. That Moss Box is like
shifting a bag of rocks, and that's after it's been rebuilt!
Alan
On 9/7/10, Robert Duquette <robertduquette@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> a localish guy locally told me that he could make my Midget take a jag e off
> the line and I replied that my ford 3.8L station wagon ( at the time ) could
> take an e. He conceded silently.
> ( and I'll never buy another ford. )
>
> Robert Duquette
> Ottawa ON Canada
> 1965 RHD BRG Austin-Healey Sprite ( project )
> 1967 RHD MG Midget ( aka: Miss Marple )
> 1955 Austin-Healey 100 BN1 ( aka: Carmen )
>
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/robertduquette/temp/2009FallTour.jpg
>
>
>> OK----at the risk of POing someone, let me just say--I'm a skeptic here. I
> live in Western Pa with many hills. I also have an E-Type. Although my
> Healey
> pulls these hills nicely, it is not as agressive on them as the E-Type (not
> close), and neither of them will take on a 5L V8.
>>
>> My guess is that the guy in the 5.7L V8 was not trying.
>>
>> OK---flame suit on.
>>
>> tom
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