In a message dated 9/10/99 3:57:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
mdunst@smtplink.coh.org writes:
> Milestones in automobile engineering came fairly quickly just before and at
> the begining of this century.
WELL WE COULD RACE MILESTONE CARS-- XK120, DB-2,3,4,5, AH100-4, ETC
Actually, in line with your comments, I think we should have a special place
in our lives for the limey cheepies that allowed sportscar racing to
flourish: the MG, Singers, Jowett Jupiters, TR, Sprites even the Healys
although they were a bit expensive in comparison. we could even include the
Crossly not so much for the Supper sport though it DID win the index of
performance at sebring in 51(?) but for all the H/modified and F Jr. motors
it provided. Without these Marques, sportscar racing would probably be like
horse racing is -- and sportscar racing is becoming -- only for the Affluent!
Count the horse tracks and compare them to the number of road race tracks.
OUR SPORT was for a while something that WE (most of us weren't born with the
proverbial Silver spoon in our mouth) could become involved with. The
auspicious celebrations we now either participate in or wish to are the
result of these humble-cast iron LUMPS that we could afford to thrash. THERE
DAM WELL SHOULD BE A CELEBRATION IN THEIR BEHALF!!
Michael Rogers
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