I know it's hard to imagine, but I do wonder if the MG's and later Triumphs
were actually somewhat more rugged than an AC Ace.
Shelby described the Ace body as "built under bridges by wino's" :) and they
did have more than a few suspension failures with the first racing versions.
I owned a '64 TR4 for a while. Long enough in fact to convince me that the
Fiats I had later were not nearly as bad a everyone said. I don't want to think
about what the handling of my TR4 would have been with it's lever shocked rear
and a high torque, 300+hp V8 under the hood. The term "nickel rocket" comes to
mind. Probably a 4 wheeled equivalent to the '69 Kawasaki H1...
--
Jim
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Jamie Costello" <jcostel1168@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:12:39 -0400
>
>Yeah, I know ... What WAS BL thinking with those MGBGT-V8s and the TR-8?
>;-).
>
>Over here, Ford 5 litre V8s and Chevy 5.7 litre V8s made it into everything:
>Jag XK/XJ's, MGBs, Rovers, etc.
>
>Jamie
>Fort Myers, FL
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 3:58 PM
>Subject: [OM] Re: Selling out
>
>
>>
>> Surely it would not have been the bhp that did for the diff? It would
>> have been the torque as you dropped the clutch. Anyway, why spoil a
>> lovely, pukka sports car with some ghastly V-8? ;-)
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 4 Aug 2004, at 16:43, Jim Sharp wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > A little study of the development history of the Cobra might have been
>> > helpful. Shelby went though similar things after shoving a high
>> > horsepower American V8 into a Brit sports car.
>> >
>> > Even the first cars were fast as H%!! but you could watch the chassis
>> > disintegrate around the engine...
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jim
>> <|_:-)_|>
>>
>> C M I Barker
>> Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
>>
>> +44 (0)7092 251126
>> ftog at threeshoes.co.uk
>> http://www.threeshoes.co.uk
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