Posted on 07/12/2006 5:51:45 AM PDT by aculeus
Besides, it wouldn't take much for Honda to build convertible sports car based on the next-generation Honda Fit due in 18-24 months.
I used to have a Sunbeam Alpine and I'm damn glad I was able to get rid of it!
Don't you mean "Lucas, the Prince of darkness"?
A Jag mechanic I knew in Des Moines had developed a nearly 100 percent cure for the Lucas disease. It consisted of a Cadillac Delcotron alternator, a Pontiac voltage regulator backed up with a Mallory dual point distributor and a big Diehard battery. Mallory made a drop in replacement distributor for the 3.8/4.2 engine and the GM alternator was ten times better than anything Lucas ever made. Best of all, the changes were not obvious.
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My knuckles do not miss having a Sunbeam Tiger. Stuffing a 289 into an Alpine engine-well did not leave much room to work. To change the 8th plug, you had to go through the firewall from under the dash to get at it. The car was damn fast.
The Chinese public should be outraged at the outsourcing of Chinese jobs to America!
There were several English made cars with 260/289 Ford engines in that era. Sunbeam, AC Cars and Griffin or Griffith (can't remember)...
Exactly. I figured anyone who has ever owned a Mini, Morris Minor, MG, Healey etc would know I exactly what I meant.
Really ugly and outdated. No wonder they had to sell.
re: illegal aliens
You don't think the Chinese are gonna sign up the laid off UAW folks from the closed OKC TrailBlazer plant, do you?
Drool.
not unless they want to move to Ardmore.
But then there are plenty of local folk who need the work.
(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)
(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)
"You don't think the Chinese are gonna sign up the laid off UAW folks from the closed OKC TrailBlazer plant, do you?"
Gee, then, it sounds like you can sleep well tonight. You have the COMMUNIST Chinese making a product in America with illegal Mexican labor. That will produce one heck of a robust economy, and help your fellow Americans in a big way, right?
Or, would it be more accurate to say you could care less, as long as you have yours?
Dang, you guys are fast. I just read the article this morning in the Daily Oklahoman. I've got mixed feelings about this but you have admit it will be good for the Oklahoma economy.
When I was 17, I learned that I could not get into an MG Midget with the top up.
Mark
"Modern cars... They all look like electric shavers"
Mark
Like 'em or not the Chinese are not stupid. Only stupid people would staff a large foreign-owned manufacturing facility in the USA-- one bound to attract loads of media attention -- with illegal aliens. Not gonna happen.
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