[Roadsters] Wanted: Austin Healey Mark III

[Ronnie Day]

I've got a Road & Track from the late '60s that in Marketplace lists a
running Birdcage Maserati for around $1K and the deal included a parts car.
I've also heard Bob Bondurant mention that he was offered the Daytona Coupe
he drove at Le Mans for $8000 when Shelby moved to the Ford GT program, but
his dad asked why he wanted to spend THAT kind of money on an old race car.
I think Mecum just sold #26 for around $9 Million!

The real Daytona Coupes have always been my ultimate dream car, and I've
wondered why the 250 GTO Ferraris sell for so much more even though there
were so many more GTOs were built.

Ron

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Gordon Glasgow <gsglasgow at comcast.net>wrote:

> I should have become a Ferrari mechanic instead of a lowly software
> developer!
>
> Gordon Glasgow
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: datsun-roadsters-bounces at autox.team.net
> [mailto:datsun-roadsters-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Tom
> Hendricksen
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 9:14 PM
> To: datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Wanted: Austin Healey Mark III
>
> In 1969 I took my 68 2 Liter roadster to Ron Tonkin Gran Tourisimo on
> Burnside in downtown Portland, Oregon and looked at a beautiful red '64
> Ferrari convertible they had imported.  They imported Ferrari's to avoid
> the
> federal laws coming into effect.  This one was red with a natural interior
> and Borani wheels.  It was priced at $4,000, AND according to the
> information letter on the window it was the one and only Ferrari built for
> the street using a fiberglass body.  I stood by the car for about an hour
> trying to convince myself I should buy it.  I could afford to trade my
> roadster and buy the car, but a clutch was $500 on the work bench at the
> import specialty and Lotus dealer near my home.  A tune-up was about $350,
> which I learned when Todd Webb and his nationally recognized Porsche race
> team could not tune up a Ferrari he was loaned and he had to pay Ron Tonkin
> to tune it up for him, and of course there was the insurance thing as well
> as trying to get my mother's car out of the garage so I could put a Ferrari
> in it.  I finally walked away without the car.  Today Ron Tonkin still owns
> the car.  I have been told it is in his warehouse.  The service manager for
> Ferrari here in Las Vegas told me that Tonkin is now the importer, and I
> have seen an F1 car being unloaded from a cargo van near his warehouse.
>  Oh,
> and that clutch today?  About $3500 sitting on the work bench.  A
> tune-up/service will set you back something North of $1.00/mile driven if
> serviced at recommended intervals.
>
> Tom
> 69 2000 - Mr. Hyde
> Las Vegas
> http://www.datsun2000.com
> http://www.nowroc.org
>
>
> On 12/28/2012 4:37 PM, Pete Peters wrote:
> > Ahhhhh, memories. I found a '68 'Vette for $1500, but the insurance
> > for a single, under 21 sailor was $3000. Ended up w/ a '72 El Camino.
> >
> > Even more important, in '73, before the Great Oil Embargo, gas was
> > still less than fifty-cents a gallon!
> >
> > Pete
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: datsun-roadsters-bounces at autox.team.net
> > [mailto:datsun-roadsters-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Mark J
> > Bradakis
> > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 2:55 PM
> > To: datsun
> > Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Wanted: Austin Healey Mark III
> >
> > Years ago my father shipped my old train set out to me here in Utah.
> > He wrapped up the bits in sections of the Indianapolis Star newspaper.
> > Here's some examples of what was in the automotive classifieds back in
> 1973:
> >
> >
> > '67 Chevelle, 396, 4 spd. $950
> >
> > '67 Corvette conv. air, power windows, 427, $2,300
> >
> > Ferrari, 1959 250 GT, 12 cyl. 2 passenger, excel. cond. $4,950
> >
> > '53 Jag XK120 show car, $3,395
> >
> > '64 MGB New red paint, new top, luggage rack, very fast, $1,000
> >
> > '59 MGA, engine good, body needs work $500
> >
> > '58 Porsche, runs good, $850
> >
> > '60 Triumph, 4 spd., looks, runs perfect  $300
> >
> > '64 TR4 wire wheels, new paint, tires, $750
> >
> > '64 TR4 Rebuilt, mech. perfect, new tires, no rust $850
> >
> > '56 Morgan Plus 4, excel. orig. condition, $3,500
> >
> >
> > mjb
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