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Re: phony sportscars revisited

To: "Triumphs" <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: phony sportscars revisited
From: "Bill Hooper" <hooper@rf.capitolweb.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 02:03:21 -0500
From: Berry Kercheval <kerch@parc.xerox.com>

>>>Gano, Ken said:
 > Hate to disagree, but my '84 Porsche 928 had an auto box and it was
every
 > bit a sport car (as long as you don't count the power windows, power
seat
 > and air conditioning)

Err, umm...
Well, there's autos & autos:

The first Corvettes had truck engines & 2 speed GM autos.  They were
marketed as sports cars.

I think all the V12 XKE Jaguars sent to the US had automatic transmissions
(from GM, too; guess it took that long for their transmission to find a
sports car).

So there's a spectrum, & the things which fall in the middle have a
"personality" problem, like Camaros.

(The car with an auto trans which ever seemed most a "sports" car to me was
a '64 Dodge 440 station wagon with the pushbutton transmission.  I was at a
stoplight around '88 between a new Camaro & Trans Am who were obviously
going to race, & left them both far, far behind.  Two people left
astonished, one left with a bad case of the giggles for a week.   The GT6
head was in the back, going to the machine shop, and might have been
snickering, too.)



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