[Healeys] Nissan powered 3000 - BAT -- Subarus

[Greg Mandas]

I love the Subaru SVX.  My father-in-law, more of a car nut than I (AH100 3
speed side shift, Golden Hawk, XK120(??)) bought one and it was a dream to
drive. The funky windows were great. You could open them at speed and rock and
roll.

Greg
65BJ8

--- On Mon, 7/16/12, Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl>
wrote:

> From: Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys]
Nissan powered 3000 - BAT
> To: "Dan Stromquist" <dan at warner-associates.com>
>
Cc: "'healeys'" <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Date: Monday, July 16, 2012, 2:50
PM
> Op 16-7-2012 19:35, Dan Stromquist
> schreef:
> > I have owned both a
240Z and a 280Z.  Very solid,
> dependable cars with
> > engineering and
features that did not appear on other
> cars until years
> > later.   A
reliable sports car that is
> still reasonably priced.  I love the
> > look of
the 240Z.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> That goes for many Japanese cars from
the'70's/'80's
> onwards. I love my Subaru Impreza. I have had 4 Subaru's by
>
now and the only thing going wrong may be the clutch at
> about
100.000-150.000 miles and may be a rubber sleeve of
> the drive shafts once or
twice. One I drove for nearly
> 300.000 miles (Impreza 1.8) and it was still
in good nick by
> the time I traded it in for a bigger Legacy Estate, the
>
second was driven for 150.000 hard miles ,short distance
> only, until it
succumbed to corrosion, mechanically still
> perfect, never had any issues
apart from rust after 12 yrs
> of salted roads (700cc Mini Jumbo, 100mph,
wifes car,
> amazing little devil of a car), the third was crashed at
>
180.000miles (Legacy 2.0), still running perfect and the
> present one I
bought recently with 70.000miles on the clock,
> just run in (Impreza 2.0,
2000).
> For every day driving there is not one EU/UK/US car that can
> beat
them on reliability.
> Kees Oudesluijs
>
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