- 1. Big V8s in Little Sports Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Ross Fosbender <rossf@interaccess.com>
- Date: Sat, 04 Jul 1998 19:48:40 -0700
- Agreed. And Skip Gunnell, now of Florida I believe, had a TD with a small block Chevy that ran C-Mod in the '60s. Jack Meilan (sp?) had a big Healey with a Chevy that raced with us regularly at about
- /html/vintage-race/1998-07/msg00022.html (7,961 bytes)
- 2. Re: Big V8s in Little Sports Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 08:19:29 -0400
- I love to see things as they were, too. But should we encourage the creation of a new V8 engined MG-TD? Or should we insist that it had to be that way in the period? I tend towards it has to have the
- /html/vintage-race/1998-07/msg00034.html (8,434 bytes)
- 3. Re: Big V8s in Little Sports Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Susan and John Roper <vscjohn@iamerica.net>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 10:52:34 -0500
- I agree. I do not agree with the reprodoodad movement in Vintage, whether it be a newly created V8 TD or a SWB built fron a 250E. I do not , however, agree with the originality at all costs mentality
- /html/vintage-race/1998-07/msg00036.html (9,499 bytes)
- 4. Big V8s in Little Sports Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Hill <Jim_Hill@chsra.wisc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 13:45:56 -0500
- In response to some of the recent comments about vintage racing's = d'=EAtre: Life is a series of never-ending compromises. Especially when you're trying to recreate something that no longer exists (
- /html/vintage-race/1998-07/msg00040.html (10,879 bytes)
- 5. Re: Big V8s in Little Sports Cars (score: 1)
- Author: MRogers726@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 15:25:22 EDT
- << If we remember that it's more about "vintage" than about "racing", and we don't lie about our cars, (and our exploits) NOW HOLD ON-- THERE ARE LIMITS TO THIS THING! and we can hang on to the goal
- /html/vintage-race/1998-07/msg00041.html (7,804 bytes)
- 6. Re: Big V8s in Little Sports Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Ross Fosbender <rossf@interaccess.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 21:05:40 -0700
- Sorry, I was there and I still don't get all choked up about "racing history". I recall an Alfa builder in one of the hard-nosed groups doing his best to get me to swear that his car was one I drove
- /html/vintage-race/1998-07/msg00044.html (8,214 bytes)
- 7. Re: Big V8s in Little Sports Cars (score: 1)
- Author: "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson@thicko.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 21:29:04 -0500
- Very well put, right on the money. WST Team Thicko --Original Message-- From: Jim Hill <Jim_Hill@chsra.wisc.edu> To: vintage-race@Autox.Team.Net <vintage-race@Autox.Team.Net> Date: Monday, July 06,
- /html/vintage-race/1998-07/msg00045.html (11,273 bytes)
- 8. Re: Big V8s in Little Sports Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Mike & Jaye Rosen <mra@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 09:19:16 -0400
- Well put Jim: I have to admit that participating in this group is slooooly changing my attitude (Brian Evans please stop reading here - I don't want your opinion of me to change). I was, and still ma
- /html/vintage-race/1998-07/msg00048.html (8,551 bytes)
- 9. Re: Big V8s in Little Sports Cars (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@forbin.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 08:29:49 -0500
- ME TOO.... There are a few email messages that I save just because they are so worthwhile. This one goes to the top of that list. -- uncle jack the carfrek TR4 Rallye Replica vintage racer
- /html/vintage-race/1998-07/msg00049.html (8,065 bytes)
- 10. Re: Big V8s in Little Sports Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Dalton <billd13@essex1.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 19:11:27 -0500
- Jim has hit the nail on the head. Way back when I was in college from 1959 to 1963, we had guys modifying cars which for the most part never got raced but were street driven. In my class of 24 Mechan
- /html/vintage-race/1998-07/msg00061.html (14,251 bytes)
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