[ROVERNET - UK] Rover history V8 etc link

Glen Wilson rovercar at comcast.net
Sat Jan 12 15:35:00 GMT 2008


Ah...Jim Hall...Chaparral...

When race cars was race cars!

Who has the snowmobile engine?

;-)

Glen


Kent Kinard wrote:
> Thanks, Lance.  The history article is the most thorough and accurate 
> piece that I have read.  Written as it was in 1976, just after the 
> introduction of the SD1, it is still a wonderful resource for early V8 
> history.
> Your car was well received by British V8 and I wonder why no more of 
> our Rover folks have made submissions to the mag.  I was not aware 
> that Dan had Jim Hall's Chaparral II engine (possibly a Traco?).  Hall 
> shifted to Chevy engines with the IIC.  He was, of course, based right 
> up the road in Midland, Texas.
>
> Roverly,
> Kent K.
>
> LANCE G LACERTE, LANCE G LA CERTE wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Thought you might appreciate this pasted/posted link from the winter 
>> edition of British V8:
>>
>> Lance La Certe, Denver, CO   '70 P6B
>>
>> Dear Readers,
>>
>> The winter edition of The British V8 Newsletter has been uploaded! 
>> This one includes a large retrospective section on the "factory" MGB 
>> GT V8 model (17 articles!), plus a special section on the Rover 
>> aluminum V8 and the cars Rover put it in (6 articles), and 21 of our 
>> trademark "How It Was Done" articles! In other words, it's not just a 
>> magazine... it's a book.
>>
>>
>>
>> Read it here: http://www.britishv8.org/British-V8-Current-Issue.htm
>>
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