This is how I talked my Dad into letting me by a midget, it looks exactly
like his old Datsun roadster he used to own!
signed,
BARRY PALMER
amesfolks@snovalley.com
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> From: Nory <Nory@webtv.net>
> To: ROBERT G. HOWARD <mgbob@juno.com>
> Cc: gardner@lwcomm.com; mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Japanese copying LBCs?
> Date: Tuesday, August 26, 1997 7:23 AM
>
> I'm no history buff, so I don't really know what happened, or who copied
> who, but...
> A few years ago at the Carlisle Import car weekend, we happened upon a
> parking lot outside of town that was filled with what appeared to be
> LBCs. Thinking it was an MG gathering, I decided to impose myself upon
> this group for a little chat (hadn't had the Midget long, it wasn't on
> the road yet, and I didn't know much about LBCs yet), We started
> looking around at the cars and, to my surprise, it turned out they were
> DATSUNS! I never saw them before (apparently aren't any in our area),
> but they looked just like our MGs! I don't know how many mecanical
> similarities there are, as I never got to see under the hood, but
> without seeing the Datsun badge, you would never know the difference.
>
> Didn't get to chat much with the owners, either. They didn't seem to be
> as outgoing as MG buffs.(-8
>
> -NORY
> Don't assume that because you have found one problem, you have found the
> ONLY problem.
>
> '74 Midget & '71 parts car
> '94 Ford Ranger
> '86 Ford Escort
> '89 Ford Probe
> '96 North American Shepherd
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/9101
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