Path: utzoo!utgpu!alliant.com!UUCP Reply-To: british-cars@alliant.com Errors-To: british-cars-request@alliant.com Sender: british-cars-request@alliant.com Return-Path: From: ejd@iris.brown.edu (Ed Devinney) To: british-cars@alliant.com Subject: A request Date: Sat, 3 Feb 90 02:07:27 EST Message-ID: <46879002030007ejd@iris.brown.edu> Organization: IRIS/Brown University Newsgroups: list.british-cars Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu 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