I'm going to butt in here-
For me, a sports car is a two seater, manual transmission-and certainly not
much larger than a 512 BB (certainly one of the larger sports cars or
Ferrarris for that matter.) And with a lower ground clearance. That would
leave out Mustangs and any of the japanese so-called "sports coupes"/"sports
sedans" (an oxymoron if there ever was one!) Hey y'all! Just because it has
a manual transmission-doesn't make a Camry (et.al.) a "sports car"! (And I
do know people who will tell me that they have a sports car-a Sentra or
something-just because it has a stick! Puh-leese!)
Which brings us around to *gasp* the Saturn _THREE_ door coupe! Excuse me-
but if it has _THREE_ doors (the third one not being a hatch back)--is it
_really_ a (by definition of the word) "coupe"?
O.K. I feel better, having gotten my little rant off!
At ease. Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
Laura G. and Nigel
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
To: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Cc: Spitfire List <spitfires@autox.team.net>; Triumph List
<triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: Mustang...Spitfire???
>
>On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Joe Curry wrote:
>
>> Andrew Mace wrote:
>>
>> > But it was still a pretty clever thing, that original Mustang of April
>> > 1964. I'll take one!
>> >
>>
>> Yeah but only because they are "cute" or valuable, not because they are
>> a true Sports Car. "Car and Driver" magazine did not rate it very
>> highly in their first report on the car! 8^)
>
>As I recall, "TIME" liked it just fine! :-) Besides, if one knew which
>parts and options to order (as did, for example, a certain Mr. Shelby),
>one indeed could make quite the sports car out of the Mustang. Of course,
>by that time the price was up there with the E-Type or the Cobra.
>
>--Andy
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