[Healeys] Coolest Cars

[Alan Seigrist]

Hi All -

Sorry guys, and shame on you John, you're from California so you should know
the drill.  Tweed caps and string back gloves was MG TC kit, if the MT
editor knew his LBCs he'd know that.

My BJ8 is from California, and the only thing the car ever had was either 1)
a surfboard in the passenger seat or 2) a girl in a bikini in the passenger
seat or 3) a surfboard in the passenger seat and a girl in a bikini in the
back seat.  I also had fantasies of a girl in a bikini in the passenger seat
and a girl in a bikini in the back seat, but I am pretty sure that never
happened.  Mistress never figured into any of it, I wasn't married.  Now
that I'm married it's the wife in a bikini in the passenger seat.

Never wore a tweed cap (BJ8 is too fast to keep it on) and only ever used
string back gloves while driving my mountain bike!

Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'59 Jag Mk IX
'64 BJ8


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:40 AM, John Sims <ahbn6 at verizon.net> wrote:

> Haven't seen this posted before but sitting in my Doctors office I picked
> up
> a copy of Motor Trend September 09 issue and they had a very nice spread on
> the 60 coolest cars of the past 60 years. They listed them in no particular
> order (according to the blurb at the front of the article). The Austin
> Healey 100 and 3000 were listed as number 38 but, as the article said, they
> could have been  number 1 or 60. The description of the Healeys was as
> follows:
>
> "Why tweed caps, stringback gloves and mistresses were invented."
>
> That about says it all!
>
> John Sims, BN6
> Aberdeen, NJ