[list.british-cars] A request

ejd@iris.brown.edu (Ed Devinney) (02/03/90)

Roger Garnett was kind enought to send me a copy of the _Sports and GT_ 
article on the Stag and enter into some correspondance which, along with 
the article, leads me to want to drop a TR6 motor (yes it's a true 
drop-in) into my Stag so that it can be Fun while we scrounge parts to do the job properly.

Here's the heart-rending plea:

This September is my Dad's 50th birthday, and he & my Mom are more fond of 
my Stag than I am (this from a man who swore 'No British Cars' after too 
many friends' cars proved 'unreliable').  I've got more cars now than I 
know what to do with, and I'd like to give something back to Der Alte and 
Mom, so ...
     Does anyone know of a complete, running TR6 engine that may become 
available by July or so?  It can even have my favorites, the SU carb - I don't care as long as it's a runner. Any year, any horsepower (here's your chance to 
dump that low-compression boat-anchor you've got now and start financing 
the Balaced-&-Blueprinted Bitchin' Well-Tuned Bored-&-Stroked-with 
Webers-and-a-Liberal-Exhaust-Built-Six-Of-Your-Dreams), so long as the one 
you sell me has got good life signs, costs a reasonable amount and can be unpacked and bolted into the frame rails of the (4 spd) 1971 Magnificent Disappointment - Mom&Dad are cruisers, not racers.  [In fact, Dad used to borrow my 340 'cuda when his car was in the shop - I don't think he ever took it over 3000 rpm or caused the secondaries to open.  He says he used to get great looks at stoplights, too ... this 40-ish graying professorial-type wearing a suit and rumbling along in the Black Beast.]

E-mail or call 401-351-4847 anytime.  Thanks very much.

ed

Ed Devinney ... ejd@iris.brown.edu ... IRIS/Brown University
"Your brain will be electronically simplified.
My brain?! That's my second-favorite organ!" - Woody Allen

british-cars-request@alliant.com (02/03/90)

I'd just like to say, as a graying almost 50 professional whose kids
view his interest in "sports cars" as bizarre, that you are certainly
the very inspiration of the kind of son I'd like to have, Ed!

What a great idea!

I hope all goes well.  I bet your Dad will be totally blown away!
(I would be!)

	- Dale