Re: WAY OT - English Sport Cars: List traffic handling - was OT: Netiquette

[Stan Halpin]

I had a loaner TR-250 for a year or so. My then 
brother-in-law was off to Vietnam for  a second tour and 
left his complete (!) set of Nikon lenses and bodies plus 
his TR-250 in my care. For those who missed this one, the 
TR-250 was the body of a TR-4 with the engine of the 
soon-to-appear TR-6. Nice car. Fun car. Nice growl from the 
exhaust. It convinced me to move from my American Motors 
Rambler to a Porsche 912. It did not convince me to buy a 
British car.

Stan

Keith Whaley wrote:
frank theriault wrote:

Someone on this list had a TR3 or a TR3a - was it Whaley?


It was! 
I still have my copy of the SCCA finish sheet!
Shows me finishing 3rd in E Production (1.6-2.0 litre) class. 
Somewhere I have a newsletter reproduction showing me tooling along at
full chat, about 6500 RPM!  Hee, hee!, hee It's a wonder I didn't blow
up that old 4-banger tractor engine!  <g>

keith whaley, TR-3, TR-3A and TR-4

I'd buy an A-H Sprite today, in a heartbeat, if I could find one for
less than UA$15,000!

They're among my favourite classic English sports cars, the Austin Healey
Bug Eye (I think you Brits call them Frog Eye?) Sprite being my absolute
fave.  They're just so irresistably cute!!
cheers,
frank