Jay Leno has some really nice cars, but as far as him being a real car guy,
give me a break. Honestly, the most stupid thing he has ever done was pay
his mechanics to put an Old Tornado body (originally front wheel drive) on a
late model corvette frame/drivetrain (rearwheel drive) and then tout this as
a major project. The Discovery Channel was lame enough to make a show on
this car. You can bet that real car guys (as in many if not most on this web
site) are offended by the people like him that think money can buy them a
reputation. Leno probably wouldn't know anything about English cars. (think
he might know about the MG line?). I bet he wouldn't be able to even tell if
a bugeye and a midget (sprite) were related. Think he knows that MG is
"Morris Garage"?
Richard Morris
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mgb-v8@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgb-v8@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Paul Hunt
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 9:44 AM
To: V8 list; mgs@autox.team.net; MG-MGB@yahoogroups.com
Subject: AC 'Midget'?
Sunday Times reports that the Kimber consortium (formed to buy MG Rover but
lost out to Nanjing) propose to manufacture the (failed) Smart roadster
under the AC name. "Midget" is used in the article like that i.e. in quotes
but capitalised. Didn't MG Rover get that? And hence Nanjing? Or did BMW
keep it?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-2330126.html
Elsewhere Jay Leno (portrayed as something of a car buff) writes Clarkson's
column. He writes that in his early years in Massachusetts: "You'd see an
occasional MG, maybe a few oddball English sports cars but for the most part
that was it." So doesn't he know MG then was English? Or maybe he thinks
it wasn't oddball. Mind you, elsewhere he says "Ferrari or a Lamborghini
were cars you'd see only in magazines. But you could come close to the
performance with the Camaro or the Mustang." Er, maybe in a long enough
straight line.
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