In a message dated 5/9/99 11:04:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time, toad@storm.ca
writes:
<< After all, with a Morgan, I am very near the top of the
> snobby British Sports Car Who-Waves-and-Flashes-Lights-First food chain,
> which starts with TR7s, MGBs, Midgets, and Spitfires, and tops out with
> (what? XK-120s? Morgans? HRDs? Blower Bentleys?) I always owned cars at
the
> bottom. I'm lost here at the top. Somebody help me so I don't make a
social
> 'faux pas' and wave first to a lower-ranking car!!
>
>
> Lannis
What is a HRD?
Toad
>>
There I go again, getting my motorcycles and sports cars mixed up in public
again. An HRD is a Vincent bike; I meant "HRG" for the car. Sort of a
Frazer-Nash descendant from the 40s/50s; I had a chance to buy one once and
muffed it. Solid front axle out in front of the radiator, real retro-looking
even compared to a Morgan, and they kept the upright rad technology well into
the 50's.
By the way, everybody, the "ranking order" isn't a serious thing; I'm all
kinds of glad to see ANY British product out on the road (or in the field;
David Brown tractors are popular around here). But people used to make up
these lists just for fun; I just wondered what the perspective of Morgan
pilots would be......
Lannis
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