Leslie,
Don't you have no horse sense at all??? I remember you having your horse and donkey thread thing going down, so sorry if you're having trouble dealing with all the testosterone, motor oil and gasoline but what is so wrong with us boys having a little fun???
But hey at the risk of getting in trouble with my beautiful wife, I'm sure you were quite the sight back in HS....
Bert,
You may have grown up where things were long and flat and so one could drive fast in a straight line fairly safely, BUT you really haven't lived until you get into "Nascar style" drafting in major hills and dales that have really sharp turns... And that is regular daily commuting on the Saw Mill River Parkway in southern Westchester! Nothing like passing some camaro or even better a vette in a four door Dogdge Dart because your torsion bars can hug the road and not wallow like a pig in mud on a sharp down and to the left and back up again.
I used to love watching all those greasy haired "joey's" (working class from the hood Italians, the guys who rearview mirrors where for their hair and not for watching the road) stare in amazement as they got lapped in in their GM pigs, in a deep turn. Sure if they caught me on a straight away my little 318 or slant-6 would run out of top end HP, but as the old RC cola ad used to say about racing: "It's knowin' where to take the turns and not how fast ya go....."
That is probably why you guys loved your Datson's, yes Datson. Very cool, 240 thru 280Z's were so cool indeed. Them and the first and 2nd round of Celica's were real little pocket rockets that could handle. Althought it was not mine, my friend Sue had a really sweet manual steering, first gen Celica. I used to treat to gas and go our with her and her boyfriend (later to be mine and Nancy's Drummer) Adam on those Parkways just so I could get behind the wheel of her Celica. That was a nice car. I could drive it forever....
I guess that is why I always loved my old Mopars, better engineering as compared to all the other big three cars. You just couldn't kill them and if set up right they handled like a sports car, especially my little A bodies like the Dart, Duster, Demon, Swingers and Scamps. Well balanced good handling cars. Lots of fun in the turns.
