<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I totally agree it's great to see it on the road. I also think to have an idiot who clearly can't drive it belittles it's provenance. </div><div>Its a race car, driven like it handles worse than a Toyota Camry. </div><div>Sorry if I offended, but that bloke made a Le Mans provenance Healey look stupid. Because he can't drive a 1950's car and make it sing and do all the things a beautiful ex factory race car can do. </div><div>My comment about his line? It's an ex factory Le Mans race car..... </div><div>Reminds me of when Jeremy Clarkson took a Toyota Prius around the Top Gear track. Bloody funny television, but not what the Prius was designed for, nor the way it was intended to be driven. </div><div>;-)</div><div>Chris</div><div><br></div><div><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 7 May 2015, at 8:45 pm, Alan Seigrist <<a href="mailto:healey.nut@gmail.com">healey.nut@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">True, but any person who has an honest passion for classic cars will know that most cars of that era had no synchro firsts, or sometimes minimal synchro / double clutch in all gears. Problem with this guy is he's not really a classic car guy so he doesn't know this... but strangely he writes for a classic car mag. <div><br></div><div>And even if I did grind the gears (which we have all done but have never admitted) I would have edited it out so I didn't look like such a tosser. That said, I agree with you, nice to see the car on the road and running again. Looks great!</div><div><div><br></div><div><br><br>On Thursday, May 7, 2015, Peter Dzwig <<a href="mailto:pdzwig@summaventures.com" target="_blank">pdzwig@summaventures.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">That's a bit harsh. It's a photoshoot, not a race and the driver is a bit of an<br>
idiot, but we know Healeys he's probably never driven one before let alone<br>
campaigned one...and it is great to see the Macklin car back on the road.<br>
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On 06/05/2015 17:05, Chris Dimmock wrote:<br>
> I hate the way that wankers get to drive these cars.<br>
> I've been closer to the Goose that laid golden eggs than that clown has ever<br>
> been to the apex of that corner....<br>
> The gear changes? The acceleration?<br>
> NOJ393 wasn't driven. It was just raped and brutalized by a Neanderthal who has<br>
> clearly never even had empathy for much more than an automatic toyota...<br>
> Don't care who he is - that video is his ridicule. NFI<br>
> Sincerely.<br>
> Just delete that video. Nothing to see here...<br>
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> On 6 May 2015, at 1:28 pm, Alan Seigrist <<a>healey.nut@gmail.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a>healey.nut@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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>> add to that revving the motor before pressure has come up. Oh man I want to<br>
>> punch this guy in the face.<br>
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>> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Alan Seigrist <<a>healey.nut@gmail.com</a><br>
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>> It's a no synchro first, dumbass!!! (invective directed at the driver, not<br>
>> you Patrick)<br>
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