One of my customers is the Birkin dealer for Northern Cal. Next month I get
to run a few hot laps at Thunderhill. I want one so bad!!!
Jimmy in Sacramento
>From: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
>Reply-To: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
>To: "Datsun Roadster List" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>Subject: 0-60 in 3.2 seconds
>Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 19:55:12 -0400
>
>I volunteered at a car auction in Bridgehampton NY this weekend along with
>members of my MG club and we drove most of the cars to the auction block
>for
>the owners. I got to drive a 69 MGC, 1988 MB 560SL, 1969 Ferrari 365GTC and
>last but not least a 2001 Birkin aka Lotus Super 7 with carbon fiber body
>panels and a Donnelly prepared 2.0L Ford Zetec engine pumping out 237HP and
>propelling 1180 lbs.
>
>Unfortunately the Birkin didn't meet reserve ($30K) and
>after the auction the owner, Tom Ringo of Texas, let me take it for a spin
>on the back roads of
>Bridgehampton. What a gas!!!! Although Tom told me to let it all hang out I
>was afraid of
>loosing control so I nailed it in 2nd and left 2 black stripes on the road
>about 400 feet long. It is the ultimate go cart! Definitely the fastest car
>I have ever driven. He's dumping it with 788 miles so he can buy a 2003
>model with a 2.3L motor and go faster. The car will be featured in a future
>Grassroots Magazine article in a shootout with Vettes, Ferraris and other
>super cars and guess which car won.
>
>Nice guy to let a stranger drive his car, as well as all the other owners.
>
>Mike
>
>PS - Other club members drove E Types, 120s, 140s, 150s, Rolls', Morgans,
>AHs, a Mini Moke, Vettes, Ferraris and a host of others.
>
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