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Re: Saturday's Car & Driver TV Show

To: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@gte.net>, <Chip19474@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Saturday's Car & Driver TV Show
From: "Ron and Angie" <nottingham@alltel.net>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 1980 20:53:48 -0500charset="iso-8859-1"
Cc: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
>I saw an hour long show on the History Channel this weekend on the
>history of Jaguar.  Interesting that in the show the XK-120 was touted
>as the "poor man's Ferrari" and the article that Chip mentioned called
>the AH 3000 the "poor man's Jaguar".  So I guess that makes Triumphs
>"poor men's Austin Healeys".
>
>By the way, In that show about Jaguar, I learned something of which I
>was not previously aware.  The first Jaguars (before they were actually
>called Jaguars) were powered by Standard 6 cyl. engines.
>
>Regards,
>Joe 
>


So that would make my Spitfire a poverty-stricken Ferrari?  :-)

Ron and Angie - Dalton, Ga
84 300ZX Turbo    77 Spitfire      92 Tempo GLS    62 Vitesse
IZCC# 4779


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