At 11:18 AM 11/6/01 -0500, Trevor Boicey wrote:
>Terry Thompson wrote:
>>
>> The first Spitfire ever to roll off of the assembly
>> lines in 1962 had front disc brakes. A feature not
>> added to Jaguars costing three times the price of a
>> Spitfire, for another 5 years! Cars like the MG Midget
>> and Austin Healey Sprite (the Spitfire's target
>> competition) didn't incorporate the front discs for
>> close to 10 years after the Spitfire's inception.
And FWIW the Austin Healey had Disk brakes in 59 if not earlier.
John
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