Art Riley ran a P1800 in the mid-60's and did very well with it. In fact, I
believe that he may have taken a National Championship. Perhaps somebody
can add clarity to that detail.
Art's Volvo is in a couple of the pictures with my Sunbeam (Don Sesslar's
old Car, 1964 timeframe)...
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Steve Silverstein
on 10/27/00 10:13 AM, WSpohn4@aol.com at WSpohn4@aol.com wrote:
> The 190SL was a bit of a pig, with far too much road hugging weight to ever
> do well in competition, vintage or otherwise. The engines are now expensive
> and difficult to power tune.
>
> If you want a race car in the 'solid' class, you'd do better to look at the
> Volvo P1800, which at least has a quite decent and tunable engine, and fairly
> readily available mechanical bits.
>
> IMHO.
>
> Bill S.
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