Yep, I said the same thing, then Idug out the book and yes, learned
something too!!!!!!!
Gotta Luv da List!!!!!!
Safety Faster
Andy Proudfoot
-----Original Message-----
From: Harlan Jillson <hjillson@argolink.net>
To: Andrew Proudfoot <amproud@nf.sympatico.ca>; mgs@autox.team.net
<mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: EX182 etc
>Hi All,
> When I saw this thread I said "I Know, I Know..." then I read further
and
>thought about the numbers and it turns out I didn't know anything. When I
>saw the request for info. on EX182 I remembered the car I saw in Syd Beers
>collection in England in '72 and was thinking of the land speed record car
>that Steering Moss drove at bonaville to take the record in August, then
the
>engine was punched out just over 1500 cc's, and they took the record again
>in October in the next class ( different driver). Syd had the car in his
>collection at the time, and I thought that was the one being discussed. Of
>course it wasn't, because the thread was on the 3 LaMans entries prior to
>the release of the MGA, and the car in Syd's collection at the time was
>EX181.
> After some further investigation ( read, poke around on the web) it
turns
>out the car that Syd had is now in the BMIHT museum anyway so I didn't
>really know where that one was either.
> What a bummer....
>Harlan.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andrew Proudfoot <amproud@nf.sympatico.ca>
>To: mg list <mgs@autox.team.net>
>Date: Monday, July 12, 1999 8:54 PM
>Subject: EX182 etc
>
>
>>Based on Richard Aspden's "Classic MG" the EX175 was powered by a bored
out
>>TF engine (1466cc) what a none bored TF is I dunno. 182 was origionallly
>>built for the 1955 Le Mans Race. This and several other races at the time
>>were mared by bad crashes and the world started to take a closer look at
>>racing. Not a good thing. The EX 186 had a lightened MGA chassis and was
>>powered by a prototype twin cam engine. Apparently " the only prototype
was
>>broken up and no photographs remain, the only existing evidence of it's
>>existance being a wooden scale model". This is the car that eventually
went
>>on to be an "A". YMMV
>>
>>Andy Proudfoot 77B (waiting for new fender, paint and longing to be
>home!!!)
>>Gander, Nfld.
>>
>>
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