Is the SA/FB a true sports car?
02-08-06, 03:55 PM
#101
Real sports cars
FCDrifter says:
" To me a sports car is something that well. Is extremely fast, handels like its on rails, smells like gas, no comfort options were ever added in any model,over priced over powered, eats gas, kills you when you drive it wrong, and gives an image that you have arrived."
You have just given an accurate description of my favorite sports car, which I mentioned early in this thread. There was absolutely no compromise for comfort or maintainability. The Chevy V8 was shoved so far back for balance, there was a removable panel behind the windshield in the top of the dash for setting the timing!
"My favorite example of a real sports car was Giotto Bizzarini's beautiful Iso A3C coupe. He drove it from his shop in Italy to LeMans in 1965, his drivers ran it for 24 hours, losing to the Ford GT-40s, and then he drove it home! "
The day of the front engined "sports car" at LeMans was coming to an end, but if GM had given Bizzarinni a fraction of the money that Ford paid Shelby, Holman&Moody and others to prepare the GT40s, the result might have been different for 1965. Bizzarinni fielded the car on a shoestring budget, and it finished 9th overall against the best that Ford and Ferrari could build. If my memory is right, the A3C was the fastest car down the Mulsanne straight that year.
http://www.tybrainstorm.de/drogo/iso.html
Hope I am not boring all you young guys with this ancient history. The A3C was a funtional masterpiece and a real work of art, with form following function. There just was not the budget to develop it. If you find one sitting behind a barn somewhere, let me know.
" To me a sports car is something that well. Is extremely fast, handels like its on rails, smells like gas, no comfort options were ever added in any model,over priced over powered, eats gas, kills you when you drive it wrong, and gives an image that you have arrived."
You have just given an accurate description of my favorite sports car, which I mentioned early in this thread. There was absolutely no compromise for comfort or maintainability. The Chevy V8 was shoved so far back for balance, there was a removable panel behind the windshield in the top of the dash for setting the timing!
"My favorite example of a real sports car was Giotto Bizzarini's beautiful Iso A3C coupe. He drove it from his shop in Italy to LeMans in 1965, his drivers ran it for 24 hours, losing to the Ford GT-40s, and then he drove it home! "
The day of the front engined "sports car" at LeMans was coming to an end, but if GM had given Bizzarinni a fraction of the money that Ford paid Shelby, Holman&Moody and others to prepare the GT40s, the result might have been different for 1965. Bizzarinni fielded the car on a shoestring budget, and it finished 9th overall against the best that Ford and Ferrari could build. If my memory is right, the A3C was the fastest car down the Mulsanne straight that year.
http://www.tybrainstorm.de/drogo/iso.html
Hope I am not boring all you young guys with this ancient history. The A3C was a funtional masterpiece and a real work of art, with form following function. There just was not the budget to develop it. If you find one sitting behind a barn somewhere, let me know.
02-08-06, 10:27 PM
#105
Resident Weasel
Originally Posted by LokiRx7.1
Hey, you entertained me for quite some time, I actually appreciate it 
no hating from muah, I was having fun
well FCdrifter drop a potent rotary in yours, and some suspension, and you will have your sportscar
02-09-06, 01:57 PM
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LOL that was my plan for a while. I had one with a 13b na in it. It moved pretty good. I got laughed at all the time but it could stomp just about any honda around here. The trick to mounting the motor is the tranny. youll need either custom mounts or a different drive shaft. cause the way i had mine it same in the same position as the stock motor and the s4 tranny sat half way in the bay so yeah it took some tinkering but we got it to worrk. I think I sold it for like 600. it was fun while it lasted.
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