In a message dated 02/21/2000 9:30:05 PM Central Standard Time, BillB@bnj.com
writes:
<< There is an SP250 that races in the Northwest, I've met the guy but can't
recall his name. He's not fast but he has a great time. Whenever I pass him
I ALWAYS think "what the hell is that!!!" though I've seen it twenty times,
it looks different from every angle. Perhaps that was a design criteria. >>
Yeap!
Look it up in the dictionary under UGLY. There is a picture of an SP250.
That's what happens when a designer tries to please everyone at the same
time.
Kind of like the TRIUMPH ROADSTER 1800 and 2000. I swear to God one designer
did the front, and one designer did the back.
With the SP250, I suspect a British designer probably looked at a Desoto and
said, "My God! That must be what they like." And truth be told, some of us
did, at the time. Look what TRIUMPH did to the front of the TR3A. Not for
me they didn't.
You can sure make the SP250 go though. That guy from Michigan (Moser ?) is
very impressive. In the mid 1980s I used to have some great races with an
SP250 at Mid-Ohio and the Glen. I can't remember the guy's name right now,
but he was from Watkins Glen, and he had a whole collection of cars.
Bill Dentinger
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