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Re: survey: best sounding engine

To: Doug Meis <s800racer@earthlink.net>, Jim Hayes <hayes@mediaone.net>,
Subject: Re: survey: best sounding engine
From: "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson@thicko.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 08:36:47 -0600
Big Healey 6... triple Webers, side exhaust, hauling ass at Road America.

(My race Sprite sounds like a weed wacker on steroids)

WST


At 09:26 AM 12/3/01 -0500, Doug Meis wrote:
>on 12/2/01 9:21 PM, Jim Hayes at hayes@mediaone.net wrote:
>
> > Did anybody else get hold of the "Sounds of Goodwood" CD by Nick Mason
> > distributed with one of the British vintage books last year? It was also
> > part of the Mason book on his cars for European (but not US)
> > distribution. The BRM V16 is the wildest sound..
>
>    I've heard that CD and I have to second Jim about the BRM V16 - an
>unearthly scream.  I can only imagine what it must be like in person.
>    Honorary mention:
>    - the wail of the F1 Matra V12 that I witnessed at Long Beach in '76.
>    - an 8-liter Can-Am Chevy (Heavy metal at it's best)
>    - Ferrari V12 and their distinctive smooth, "ripping canvas" sound
>    I'm also just a bit partial to my own Honda twim-cam's scream at 10,000+
>RPM!

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