[Healeys] Crosley Hotshot

[wilkmanracing at aol.com]

You guys are way to hard on the Hot Shot.  Hot Shots were successfully raced
by lots of amateur sports car racers in the early 1950s, including some names
we'd recognize today as early pioneers of the sport in the USA.  Henry Manney
III comes to mind.  It was a product of its time and has an interesting place
in the history of sports cars in the USA.

Bill Wilkman
USA






-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Seigrist <healey.nut at gmail.com>
To: dwflagg <dwflagg at juno.com>
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
Sent: Sun, Feb 7, 2010 7:55 pm
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Crosley Hotshot


Doug -
The Crosley Hotshot was just about the crappiest car ever made.  It
ad this insane motor which was stamped out of sheetmetal, which made
t difficult to repair and didn't last long, and the water jacket was
rone to rust through in short order.  I think it came in a kit and
ou put it together like an IKEA closet.
It handled poorly and had rotten performance, and sorry, have to
isagree with you, it was just about the ugliest version of a bugeye
ou can think of.  Just becaus a Pontiac Fiero looks kinda like a
amborghini Jalpa doesn't mean they looked the same....
There's a picture somewhere on the internet of Frank Lloyd Wright on
n estate driving around with his wife in a couple of Crosley
otshots, that picture reduced my respect for the man about 10 pts,
nfortunately.
Hope there aren't any Hotshot owners on the list!
Alan
'52 A90
53 BN1
59 Jag Mk IX
64 BJ8

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:21 AM, dwflagg <dwflagg at juno.com> wrote:
 Whilst rummaging about amongst my "stuff", I came upon a double sided
 card for a Crosley Hotshot. When I first glanced at it I thought it was a
 Bugeye Sprite, but this car was built between 1949 and 1952. It was a
 doorless convertible with bug-eyed freestanding headlamps. Interesting
 that it should be resurrected some six years later on the other side of
 the pond!! As Yogi Berra said, "It is Deja Vu all over again!!".

 Doug
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