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Subject: Re: MGBs and the real world
Message-ID: <1993Apr15.053536.18595@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 93 05:35:36 GMT
References: <1993Apr6.035544.16865@cactus.org> <C54sKq.KGL@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Apr8.095119.5367@hasler.ascom.ch>
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In article <1993Apr8.095119.5367@hasler.ascom.ch> kevinh@hasler.ascom.ch writes:
>
>Oh yeah, I had a 1975 1275GT Mini, and even before I did anything
>to it, it could leave an MGB standing anywhere except, perhaps, on a long straight
>motorway run at 90+. 
>
>People who bought MGB`s bought them because they were an open topped sportscar
>and embodied what people thought they should for an old fashioned traditional
>brit. sportscar - not because they were great at anything.

Pretty much like the people who buy the Mazda MX-5 (Miata) today.  Small 
fun and you can fool yourself (and a lot of other people) that you have the 
performance of many far superior (and much more expensive) performnace cars.


-- 
Derek Tearne.   --   derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz   --    Fujitsu New Zealand   -- 
Some of the more aware dinosaurs were worried about the environmental
consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.  
"If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.
