Haysoos marimba, kool yer jets! I only asked about the best car for me,
living in a condo with no garage or place to work on a car.
I don't think anybody seriously believes the Miata or the Jeep are Brit
Cars. They both have tenuous connections to the wonderful heritage Great
Britain brought to sports car history, but NO newcomer will ever be more
important or more loved than the early MG T-series that started it all. The
Spridget is a DIRECT descendent of the MG-TC.
The Miata and Jeep are "world cars."
End of line
Allen Hefner
Norristown, PA
*Current:*
2006 Chebbie
*Former:*
1963 Sunbeam Alpine Series III
1967 Triumph TR4A IRS
1964 VW Type I
1967 VW Type II
1967 Rover 2000TC
1977 MG Midget
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Guy R Day <grday@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Well thought through David.
> However, I don't think you can make a serious claim the Jeep was a British
> design and I would suggest Nippon Miata groups whilst acknowledging the
> Miata to be generally based on British design would not claim it to be a
> LBC. Bits of it may well be improved (and other bits not improved) copies
> based on LBCs but it certainly sticks in my throat to say a Mazda is a
> British car - just as it would to claim a Jeep is British.
> Guy R Day
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lieb" <72spridget@gmail.com>
> To: "Guy R Day" <grday@btinternet.com>; "Spridgets" <
> spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 7:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Best Spridget for a condo owner
>
>
> If you follow this argument then you can make a WWII Jeep to be derived
>>> from
>>> a British design!!
>>>
>>
>> Well, the original WWII Jeep was designed by the American Bantam
>> Company of Butler, Pennsylvania, which had built Austin Sevens under
>> license (like BMW had), so maybe there is a relationship there...
>> David L
>>
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