You’re probably right, Paul, and I never had one; but everyone used to say that
it was a tractor engine, probably in jest. My father owned a lovely Austin
Healy 3000 when we lived in Bahrain and I was about 8 years old. I still love
to see and hear that car.
I used to own a MGB roadster, a 1972 model with Rostyle wheels. I loved that
machine, but had a collision on a single-track road in Scotland and could not
afford to repair it . . .
Chris
> On 8 Dec 14, at 21:00, Paul Laughlin <pelaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I was under the impression that the engine in the MGC was the same as the
> Austin Healy 3000 but with some weight pared off it. I had a '68. Fun car to
> drive. A bit of a sleeper because it looked very much the same as the MGB. I
> had it up to 125 mph on the odometer a couple of times. It did not have the
> electric overdrive so that was pushing the yellow on the tach.
> Paul in Portland OR
>
> On 12/8/2014 10:49 AM, ChrisB wrote:
>> Good effort by all :-)
>>
>> I was going to say that they each had tractor engines, but perhaps that was
>> only the MGC.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>> On 8 Dec 2014, at 14:29, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Full marks to Paul, who did not disappoint, either in the factual answers
>>> (correct, of course) as well as in the surmised connection. David Brown
>>> Tractors last heard of as a subsidiary of Case (International Harvester)
>>> while Ferguson survives as part of the AGCO brand "Massey Ferguson".
>>>
>>> Not only that, but Brown and Ferguson were originally in business together
>>> as Ferguson-Brown.
>>>
>>> But completely different from Lamborghini. They still make tractors :-)
>>
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