I saw something interesting this morning. I am not an AOL subscriber, but
the relatives that we are visiting are, so I got a chance to poke around
AOL. One of the hot links this morning shows the results of the Guy and
Chick cars survey. The #3 chick car was the Miata! Interesting
results.....
I wonder where that little Wildebeest would place. #1 on the drunken
redneck "Hey, watch this y'all" cars??
Sidney Raper
1964 1500
1967 SRL311 00060
1967 SRL311 00076
Jacksonville Florida
http://www.geocities.com/roadsternut/index.html
>From: "Gary K. McCormick" <gkmcc@netgate.net>
>Reply-To: "Gary K. McCormick" <gkmcc@netgate.net>
>To: datsunmike <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
>CC: Fred_Katz@ci.sf.ca.us, SLBESQ@aol.com, datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: The Winner
>Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 21:16:41 -0700
>
>It just goes to show, a convertible should be designed from the get-go as a
>convertible. As for the Honda and Miata, having another 20 or 30 years of
>structure technology development to work with helps too!
>
>Gary McCormick
>'70 2000 (Hangar Queen)
>San Jose, CA
>
>datsunmike wrote:
>
> > Fred,
> >
> > Make that semi-rigid. Compared to my Miata and a Honda S2000 the
>Roadsters
> > are flexiflyers.
> >
> > The Roadster is still better than the Tbird, as that car is a boulevard
> > cruiser. Every article I read mentions the same problem regarding the
> > handling, or more precisely the lack of it. Typical American car.
> >
> > Mike
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Fred_Katz@ci.sf.ca.us>
> > To: <SLBESQ@aol.com>
> > Cc: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 6:13 PM
> > Subject: Re[2]: The Winner
> >
> > > On 8/24/2001 SLBESQ@aol.com wrote:
> > >
> > > >In a message dated 08/23/2001 1:49:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > > >svgkm@halley.ca.essd.northgrum.com writes:
> > > >
> > > >> The part I love is " ...the frame is made from two rugged steel
> > > >pipes... " > Colin Chapman,
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >note the strut tower brace for added torsional rigidity
> > >
> > > Yesterday, I read this article on the new Thunderbird roadster. Lots
> > > of lavish praise about that car. In a way, it sort of looks like our
> > > Datsun roadsters. Then the article mentioned that the car had some
> > > handling problems with twisting and flexing on the road. And then it
> > > mentioned that the car design was based on another hardtop car, that
> > > they cut the roof off to make it a convertible roadster. One big plus
> > > about our Datsuns is our rigid frame.
> > >
> > > Fred - So.SF
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