[Healeys] Start of the Japanese Auto Industry

[Richard Ewald]

I knew Bob Hall and his brother Jim back when they were first out of high
school.  The article is correct about him liking British cars.  In the group
of guys that hung together there was at various times 100-4, 100-6,
Spitfire, Sprite/Midgets, MGB, P1800 You get the idea.  He used the Lotus
Elan as a design inspiration for the Miata.


On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 6:34 PM, HealeyRick <healeyrick at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I remember when the Miata was introduced, Mazda advertised they had
> recorded
> sounds of British sports cars to get the exhaust note sound right:
>
> http://www.canadiandriver.com/2005/10/11/feature-mazdas-little-miata-finds-it
> s-place-in-history.htm
>
> Rick
>
>
> Follow My Nasty Boy Build:  http://tinyurl.com/yj52fwo
>
> --- On Mon, 12/28/09, Patrick Yoas <pyoas at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> From: Patrick Yoas <pyoas at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Healeys]  Start of the Japanese Auto Industry
> To: "Healey Forum" <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Date: Monday, December 28, 2009, 8:35 PM
>
> Patrick,
> The story I got back in '71 was that it was a Heale and an XKE coupe that
> reproduced the 240Z. There was another story that it was 2 Healey's but
> still
> a XKE Jag coupe.
> The Japanesse were very well known for copying technologies and design from
> other companies and our politicians were powerless/helpless to stop them
> thanks to Lobbyests.
> Patrick
> BJ8 (since '72)
>
> From: "Patrick and Caroline Quinn" <p_cquinn at tpg.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Start of the Japanese Auto Industry
> To: "'WILLIAM B LAWRENCE'" <ynotink at msn.com>,
>    <qualitas.jack at gmail.com>,    <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Message-ID: <DE094AD071BE4C8F991DAE7882784CCF at PatrickQuinnPC>
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> G'day All
>
> If you have a few minutes to spare you might like to have a look at an
> article I prepared some years back. It's at:
>
> http://www.acmefluid.com.au/larry/austinnissan.html
>
> Actually it was two 3000s and not 3. Whether they used them for study I am
> not sure, but given the Nissan (Datsun) connection beforehand I wouldn't be
> surprised.
>
> Hoo Roo
>
> Patrick Quinn
> Sydney, Australia
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