[Healeys] Why have a Sports Car

[Joe and Lenore Armour]

HealeyRick wrote:

>Interesting those phrases you remember from your youth.  I was a huge Henry N.
>Manney fan.  And over at C&D, I tended to favor Warren Weith. Rob Walker used
>to deliver such great GP reports, felt I was in the pits even though the
>checkered rlag had dropped three months earlier.  I miss their prose, although
>am still a lover of Peter Egan and Burt Levy.  Any other favorite writers out
>there?
>
>Yr Fthfl Srvnt,
>Rick
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As a wayward youth down in country Australia we had no 3D motor racing 
only the flat images on paper that came from the town library.
BUT I will never forget the C&D, or Road & Track or was it Sports Car 
Graphic article that was to change my life. A journalist rode as 
passenger in a Maserati Birdcage down the east coast of USA to a 
motoring event - could it have been Sebring. The passenger had to nurse 
his luggage while it pi..ed down rain for most of the trip. From memory 
the elements did not deter the intrepid Sports Car pair.

Some years later I saw a TR.3 driver in the car park at my first motor 
race meeting hammer his 'nearsideundos' up so tight I could only assume 
the ride home was going to be sooooooo  fast.

So what happened next you ask, first car as a 17yo.,  a BN.4, next car 
another BN.4,  then it got really serious with two of Donald's best, a 
red one and a blue one.

Joe