If everything Lucas on the thing starts to work, keep an eye peeled for a swarm
of
Locusts.
Mike B. TLS#1
Phil Vanner wrote:
> Another sign:
>
> Yesterday when I left work, I looked under the Spridget to check the oil
> spot.
> Nothing.
> I was alarmed; this could only mean that all of the oil had leaked out on
> my way to work. I opened the bonnet and pulled the dipstick. Full.
>
> The end is near.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Phil's shocking expletives deleted.
>
> >From autox-owner@autox.team.net Wed Jun 9 13:52 CDT 1999
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> From: dg50@chrysler.com
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> Subject: Re: Neon ACR and the SCCA
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> Paul Foster <pfoster@gdi.net> wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: Neon ACR and the SCCA
>
> > Eric Linnhoff wrote:
>
> >> TOTAL HORSEPUCKEY if you ask me!!! SCREW the other manufacturers!!! I
> >> say let 'em continue to lose races if they don't care enough to make a
> >> better (race)car like Chrysler did/does.
>
> > You used the expression '(race)car' 3 times when describing an
> > ostensibly stock car. I rest my case...
>
> Why should "stock" and "race" be mutually exclusive, especially when talking
> about Showroom Stock racing (or for that matter, Solo Stock)?
>
> Are "Stock" cars not allowed to be fast?
>
> Quick! Hide that Viper, and that Corvette too! Hey you! You can't buy that
> Mustang, or that Camaro, or that Talon - it's fast! It might win a race
>against
> slower cars! That's not fair!
>
> For once, I agree with Linnhoff. If someone makes a well designed, cheap, fast
> car with an outstanding contingency program that winds up dominating a racing
> series, it DESERVES to dominate it. If other people/manufacturers don't like
>it,
> then let the manufacturer step up to the plate and BUILD A BETTER CAR.
>
> The ACR isn't some oddball, limited production,
> have-to-be-on-the-inside-to-get-one (*cough* Mustang Cobra R *cough*)
> special-order toy, it's something that you can get from any dealer - sometimes
> even off the lot. That's something that should be ENCOURAGED, IMNSHO.
>
> DG
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