"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Calif Bill wrote:
"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:03:55 -0500, Harry Krause
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Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:02:32 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

A much stronger car of the 1960s...a TR4A-IRS. I had one of those,
too.
Great car. Not nearly as pretty as the MGA, but...it ran and ran and
ran.
Always wanted a red 'Healy 3000 from that era.

Indeed. An aluminum bodied 100-6. Love 'em.
pansies...

Not if you stuff a chevy in there. Was funny how years ago, people would
claim the AH 1000's would be turds in the handling area, when they had a
chevy small block replace that huge hunk of cast iron from England. Was
that they were not used to power. The small block engine was about 200#
less in weight.



Anathema. I've got an older English sports car with a straight six in it,
and it would lose tens of thousands in value if I replaced that engine
with a Chevy engine.

My old car is older than my wife. They've both still got their curves,
though.


But years ago, we swapped engines. The cars were not classics then. I
turned down buying a Ferrari GTO for $5500 in about 1967 as I figured I
could not afford the ZF replacement transmissions, etc. Was racing a 1964
Corvette in those days. Highest a GTO sold for was $16,500,000. Would have
been a good car to buy and store.