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Subject: Re: "Design" Contest Results To Date <199511021412.JAA09578@uva.pcmail.Virginia.EDU>
From: Berry Kercheval <kerch@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 08:16:59 PST
>>>R John Lye said:
 > On Nov 2,  7:47am, Bruce T. Clough wrote:
 > > Did British Leyland host Nissan engineers on an "engineer swap" program?
 > 
 > Sort of - I assume you know that Nissan started out by building Austins
 > under license, and only later began building their own designs.  Take
 > a look at the carbs and brakes on a 240Z sometime - they ought to look
 > *very* familiar.

Ore for even more Deja Vu, look at a Datsun 1600 or 2000 roadster.
Take an MGB, replace all the BSF fasteners and with metric
Phillips-head cap screws....

Well, not quite but it's uncanny.

  --berry

Berry Kercheval :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

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