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Re: Austin America?

To: Brad Pace <britclas@WorldShare.net>
Subject: Re: Austin America?
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 20:16:56 -0800
Cc: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>, "Kent J. Miller" <Bushwacker4@prodigy.net>, Spridgets <Spridgets@autox.team.net>
Organization: WFO Racing
References: <001201c0414a$529bc720$65c6fe3f@default> <39FCB935.98267E54@exit109.com> <021d01c04211$3443a6e0$4c066520@w2a2i7> <39FCD2EB.6B865F23@exit109.com> <025001c04215$681c3780$4c066520@w2a2i7>
...the dam broke?

Brad Pace wrote:

> Well I happen to own at this time a 1968 AA 4 door 1100 that is at my
> other place at Coulee Dam
> and it only has about 27,000 mi. on it . Can you guess what happened
> to it? Oh yeah,, it is an automatic.
> Brad
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Clarici" <spritenut@exit109.com>
> To: "Brad Pace" <britclas@WorldShare.net>
> Cc: "Kent J. Miller" <Bushwacker4@prodigy.net>; "Spridgets"
> <Spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 5:46 PM
> Subject: Re: Austin America?
>
> Brad Pace wrote:
> >
> >         I am rather of the opinion that the car in question is an
> > Austin America 1300.
>
> ALL Austin Americas sold in the US were 1275s (1300s) Before that they
> were MG 1100s (1098s) There may have been a very few Austin 1100s but
> I
> am not aware of any. My father had an 1970 Austin America, it was a
> nice
> car until the hydro-spastic suspenion took a crap so he junked it
> around
> 75.
> 5 years old, that ended his love affair with British cars. He had a
> Nash
> Healey, TR3, TR4A-IRS, and a Sprite which I bought off him (my first)
> when he bought the AA. Then he bought a Mopar and once again he tried
> small cars, he bought a chevy chovette and once again it was in the
> junk
> yard with 2 payments still owed on it.
>
> --
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
> The bug in the rice bowl
> http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut


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