Larry Jaques wrote in
:

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 00:13:05 -0600, the inscrutable Patriarch
spake:

I really wanted a 3000 when I was a youth.

I got to work on one a whole lot. Dad had the AH 100-4 and raced it
in gymkhanas and autocrosses when I was a wee lad. I even learned
how to tune spoke wheels before I was 10. A restored '54 is now worth
over $150k. thud


I remember that those were really pretty, but the mechanicals were fairly
rudimentary, particularly in today's terms. My un-restored '51 spine needs
more modern engineering.

The search for a Healey was set aside, when in late '72 I met a dark-eyed
brunette, who drove an old VW bug. She turned out to be a much better
investment. ;-)

Patriarch