At 01:44 PM 9/19/98 -0400, John C Kahoon:
> Sprites, and Midgets ( same thing ) were designed for the driver, NOT
>the guy looking at it.
>It's important to understand what an engineers' goal is before you judge
>something.
>If you ever drove one of these cars, you might decide ( from the drivers
>point of view )
>that it is a better car to drive under certain circumstances, than a
>"big" healey .
> ( as long as you don't want to go over 90mph :-)
> I believe the engineers ( correct me if I'm wrong ) built these cars
>as a reasonably price
>sports car, with the driver in mind. Road feel, handling, responsiveness
>in general were the
>priority, not appearance ( which I think is OK ) or high speed cruising
>ability.
>You get up to 50mph real quick and don't have to slow down for much of
>anything, if you can drive.
>
>Cock your brain before you shoot your mouth off, it works much better !
>appology accepted, at leat by me anyways....
>
>john.kahoon@juno.com
>71 midget
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John, an excellent description of the subject matter. I enjoyed your
ideas on the Sprite, really....they made good sense to me.
Unfortunately you spoiled the whole thing by adding that
last paragraph.
Sincerely, Stuart....'79MGB (with the top down)
Stuart Farmer
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