Healey 100-4?
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From: <RBHouston@aol.com>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>; <midgetsprite@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 2:29 PM
Subject: British Car Trivia
> Flamboyant, Americanised, Over the Top, all words that have been
> used to describe the ------------used to describe the ------------
> evokes, you can be assured that once you driven one it will
> guarantee pleasure, a feeling of serenity, a rush of adrenalin at
> speed, and definitely turn heads wherever you go.
>
> If you want something different, yet a practical classic car for
> reliable distance motoring, then you cannot go far wrong with an ----
> -----
>
> Designed in 1947, built in and released in 1948, the ----------
> convertible was conceived to earn dollars, and the ----------- had
> it sights set firmly on the US to get them. Initial reaction in the
> States was that of trepidation, a quirky British car, certainly
> different, but what is it? The price was too high, the engine was
> too small, only 4 cylinders of 2.6 litres, the Americans wanted 6
> cylinders and lots of power in excess of their needs. The belief was
> that this was the only means of creating reliable, high mileage
> motoring on long distance freeways, with minimal mechanical problems.
>
> On the UK market the car was seen as too excessive for British
> tastes, too big and too expensive, both to buy and to run. At 22
> mpg, fuel rationing, and new cars in any event being limited to the
> privelaged, this brave new model was not off to a good start.
> "What car was this"???
>
>
> Robert Houston
> Texan in NM
>
> 73 MG Midget
> 74.5 MGBGT
> 63 TR4
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