Used to race an Austin Healey Sprite, MGB and a Lotus Super Seven (no, not
at the same time). They all sound great - especially with the open
exhausts. But there is nothing like the sound of the Italian 12cyl engines
at full chat on a race course -- brings the blood to a boil.
Barry H
(who has an XJS V12)
At 08:34 PM 12/7/05 -0700, you wrote:
>
>A man here had a Jensen Healy. He put it up for sale and I should have
>bought it but didn't. I think it had a Lotus engine and it was a beautiful
>car. I almost bought an Austin Healy but before I got the deal made a guy
>trying it out hit the back of an oil tanker truck and good bye Healy. It was
>one of the early four cylinder models. They were so pretty. /jmac
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Behalf Of Bill Pearce
>Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:23 PM
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Re: E-1 is rubbish I am going back to film
>
>
>
>> I'll bet it doesn't sound as nice as the XKE though. British automobile
>> engineering had a lot of weak points but were the best in the world for
>> sound.
>
>I'm partial to the bass rumble of a big Healy.
>
>Bill Pearce
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