There really is only one car worthy for the honors as the "millenium" marque
... the Mini Cooper!!! Need I say more.
----- Original Message -----
From: larry gallo <agallo@pcfl.net>
To: <MRogers726@aol.com>
Cc: <mdunst@smtplink.coh.org>; <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: next year?
> I surmise that the Monterey Historics are subject to
> the same pressures (almost) as the Indy Pace Car
> or Motor Trend Car of the Year fetish-- I refer to
> lobbying of varying intensity by the current car-
> makers, advertisers and sponsors to provide some
> tie-in to marketing endeavors. While Maserati may
> seem hardly more so than was Miller, it is a fact
> that the Fiat/Ferrari custodians have their first new
> product in more than a decade to introduce, and
> they see it as a full blossomed faceoff for "Ford's"
> Aston DB7 if they can properly "launch" it here.
>
>
> MRogers726@aol.com wrote:
>
> > 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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