My mom had the one with the 350. A hot little car, with awful
suspension, and disasterous brakes.!! The front brakes would fade so
fast, if you were hot rodding around. One or two Stop sign to Stop sign
blasts, and you'd have smoke rolling up from the front brakes. I know,
I did it enough times. The car was geared real high like the Tigers,
and with the junky TH350 it would just barely light up the right rear
tire. It wallowed in the corners, due to the weight of the V-8 (262 was
no better), and it generally was a terrible car to drive hard. It was
basically a mushy Vega with better engine. I hated it.
Rich
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>From: Keith Bradshaw[SMTP:bradshaw@utdallas.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 1997 2:57 PM
>To: LeBrun@hii.hitachi.com; tigers@autox.team.net;
>Larry.Wright@mail.wdn.com; HW200@aol.com
>Subject: Re: that's _darn_ the torpedos :)
>
>
>
> Not only
> would a manufacturer be scrambling with inefficiency but so would
>the
> eventual consumer who was told by the manufacturer they actually DID
>have a
> 260 under the hood for that year. That's like a modern day 5.0
>mustang having
> a 351 slipped in occasionally just to make things interesting for
>the
> consumer. Whether it's Ford or Rootes, I don't think any
>manufacturer could
> be responsible for that. -Hank
>
>
> Hank,
>
> Chevy did that in the late seventies with the Monza....they were
>produced
>with
> 262 destroked small blocks but because of problems of some sort for one
>year
> (1977-1979 somewhere in there) they were produced with 350's!!!!
>
> These would be interesting to find.... I haven't heard of anyone with
>one,
>but
> they were built.
>
>
>
> mBrad
>
>
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