Re: HP, sort of.(non-Tiger)

[James Barrett <jamesbrt@mindspring.com>]

At 09:24 PM 5/8/99 -0600, you wrote:
....  Well I got one of those "super powered"
>> Hertz Ford Conture as a rental.  Book in the car said 170 HP and
>> weight of around 1400 lb.
>This must have been a Lotus 7 version of the Contour :). I would 
>have guessed that the Contour would weigh at least twice that. 
>Just teasing a little. 
>
>Tom Oxner
        The range in the book was actually 1385 to 1440 lbs.
I guess the tin can metal and plastic that new cars are made
of weigh a lost less than the boilerplate bodies of old
England.
James Barrett Tiger II 351C and others