You'd need to work on the name; a "Lemon-Healey" probably won't sell.
JR
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Lemon" <glemon@neb.rr.com>
To: "Blue One Hundred" <healey.nut@gmail.com>; "Richard Hosmer"
<rahosmer@citlink.net>
Cc: "Rich C" <richchrysler@quickclic.net>; <insptwo@msn.com>;
<healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: new healey
> Richard, I agree with most of what you said except about the cheap parts,
> there a plenty of good four or six cylinder powertrains available which
> typically power 3300 to 3600 pound garden variety Hondas, Toyotas, Fords
> and
> Chevys. Subtract 800-1000 pounds from the weight and suddenly you have a
> pretty good power to weight ratio.
>
> As Alan alluded to, I believe the Lotus Elise engine is based on a fairly
> garden variety Toyota 4 banger.
>
> It will be hard for a small manufacturer to build to a low price, get a
> larger player in the mix and maybe that would change. Flashback to the
> original 100 story with Austin, a lot of things have changed, but many are
> not that much different.
>
> Somewhere between a Miata and a Corvette in price and performance would be
> great, but probably too much to hope for. As in the early fifties there
> is
> actually a little gap in the market there, the "entry level" BMC Porsche
> and
> Mercedes roadsters are about as much as the Vette and offer less
> performance. Only tweener car I can think of in the USA is the S2000,
> perish the thought but maybe something like the torquey GM 3.8 liter v-6
> in
> the new Healey (believe it was an option in the Camaro Firebird, so even a
> RWD driveline available) as a contrast to the high strung Honda unit, and
> in
> keeping with the Healey tradition of a low stressed production units
> giving
> effortless performance
>
> Also it needs to be GREAT LOOKING, stunning, fabulous, etc.
>
> Now I am working myself up, anybody want to throw out a little (OK a lot)
> of
> venture capitol, hell I'll build one!
>
> Greg Lemon
> 54 Bn1
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