While traveling yesterday I came across a highly modified 1975 Mini Cooper
Serious Money at $15,500.00 very cool car though!
If anyone is interested, contact me and I will share what I know!
Mario Langsten
Bow, NH
little britain motor company wrote:
> I'd tow from Ontario, Canada for an all-MINI race at Monterey!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Towell <rtowell@worldnet.att.net>
> To: larry gallo <agallo@pcfl.net>; MRogers726@aol.com <MRogers726@aol.com>
> Cc: mdunst@smtplink.coh.org <mdunst@smtplink.coh.org>;
> vintage-race@autox.team.net <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
> Date: September 10, 1999 10:22 PM
> Subject: Re: next year?
>
> >There really is only one car worthy for the honors as the "millenium"
> marque
> >... the Mini Cooper!!! Need I say more.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: larry gallo <agallo@pcfl.net>
> >To: <MRogers726@aol.com>
> >Cc: <mdunst@smtplink.coh.org>; <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
> >Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 9:14 PM
> >Subject: Re: next year?
> >
> >
> >> I surmise that the Monterey Historics are subject to
> >> the same pressures (almost) as the Indy Pace Car
> >> or Motor Trend Car of the Year fetish-- I refer to
> >> lobbying of varying intensity by the current car-
> >> makers, advertisers and sponsors to provide some
> >> tie-in to marketing endeavors. While Maserati may
> >> seem hardly more so than was Miller, it is a fact
> >> that the Fiat/Ferrari custodians have their first new
> >> product in more than a decade to introduce, and
> >> they see it as a full blossomed faceoff for "Ford's"
> >> Aston DB7 if they can properly "launch" it here.
> >>
> >>
> >> MRogers726@aol.com wrote:
> >>
> >> > In a message dated 9/10/99 3:57:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> >> > mdunst@smtplink.coh.org writes:
> >> >
> >> > > Milestones in automobile engineering came fairly quickly just before
> >and at
> >> > > the begining of this century.
> >> > WELL WE COULD RACE MILESTONE CARS-- XK120, DB-2,3,4,5, AH100-4, ETC
> >> > Actually, in line with your comments, I think we should have a special
> >place
> >> > in our lives for the limey cheepies that allowed sportscar racing to
> >> > flourish: the MG, Singers, Jowett Jupiters, TR, Sprites even the Healys
> >> > although they were a bit expensive in comparison. we could even include
> >the
> >> > Crossly not so much for the Supper sport though it DID win the index of
> >> > performance at sebring in 51(?) but for all the H/modified and F Jr.
> >motors
> >> > it provided. Without these Marques, sportscar racing would probably be
> >like
> >> > horse racing is -- and sportscar racing is becoming -- only for the
> >Affluent!
> >> > Count the horse tracks and compare them to the number of road race
> >tracks.
> >> > OUR SPORT was for a while something that WE (most of us weren't born
> >with the
> >> > proverbial Silver spoon in our mouth) could become involved with. The
> >> > auspicious celebrations we now either participate in or wish to are the
> >> > result of these humble-cast iron LUMPS that we could afford to thrash.
> >THERE
> >> > DAM WELL SHOULD BE A CELEBRATION IN THEIR BEHALF!!
> >> > Michael Rogers
> >>
> >>
> >
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