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H.L. Mencken Debunked
On Jun 5, 9:31*am, HK wrote:
Richard Casady wrote: On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 06:28:53 -0700 (PDT), wrote: Then GM tried with the Vega, There were five thousand with four valves per cylinder, DOHC. Only Lotus and Jensen-Healy offered that. My brother had a Jensen.. Called it the road oiler. Bought it in 72 and it rusted while he spent years on a flattop. Then he got home, we stripped it down to the frame, more or less, and chased the rust. He has probably put an thousand miles on it since. Casady Ahhhh...British sports cars. My introduction to them came in junior high. One of my buds was one of three sons of a fairly wealthy lawyer. His two older brothers were given Austin-Healeys for their 16th birthdays, and we got to wash them and sit in them and drive them around the circular driveway when we were about 13. When my friend turned 16, his dad bought him a new Jag XK150. I fell in love with that car. We even took it up to Lime Rock once and ran the track on a non race day. Great fun. After I finished my junior year in college, I got a summer job at a newspaper and used my practically non-existent salary to buy a pretty MG-A. I loved that car, but it was completely unreliable in every aspect possible. But I loved driving it when it would start! *Then I bought a new TR4-IRS, and that became my favorite sports car. It wasn't as pretty as the MG, but it was rock solid reliable. It was followed by a Lotus Cortina, which was an English Ford with an engine "worked on" by Lotus. Well, that should have done it for me, because it, too, was a P.O.S. While in Florida, I bought an unrestored, original and near-perfect Jag XK150-S with, incredibly, just under 9,000 original miles. I drove it a little on dry, windless days, but mostly it lived in a good solid garage, under a soft bedsheet. *It stayed in Florida when we moved to Maryland. A friend took care of the car for me in between my visits. Sold the car last year with 11,000 miles on it. The new owner had to supply his own battery. I really liked the car, and still think the XK150 and the original XKE's that followed were the high point of British sports car design. I never like the Lotuses much. There's a firm in England remanufacturing XKE's, and from what I have read they do a fabulous job. They have original, cleaned up E-types, but what really interests me are the fully modernized, remanufactured XKE's. Oh...the buddy...he cracked up the XK150 and the next week, his dad bought him a new "E" type. Ah......WAFA bull**** at it's finest. |
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