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From: hkr4627@acf4.UUCP (Hedley K. J. Rainnie)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: small HP = big block HP?!
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Date: Sat, 23-Feb-85 14:35:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 23 14:35:00 1985
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Tom:

If you think that no American car can handle, then YOU should give ME
a break.  The Shelby Cobras and GT350s as well as the properly set up 
(from the factory) Vette were all good handlers.  The Vette, especially
did well in the big block days against all comers, and that's without
the huge megabuck factory backing.

I remember in 1978 (or thereabouts), R&T (or C&D or whatever) tested the
1978 Vette and recorded the highest slalom speed ever tested, yes, better
than the Porsche 930 and Ferraris.  That's the OLD 1963-vintage chasssis
and all.

I think that 1960's vintage musclecars are classics--and some of them happen
to go very quickly indeed.  Just goes to show that they could do things
right in the old days...

Rei SHinozuka
ihnp4!cmcl2!acf4!hkr4627

p.s. i got nothing against the econoGTs, but you just see too many of them
on the road today.
theyre a plague.