Simon Favre wrote:
>
> A slightly deranged Brian Evans scribbled:
>
> > > To make a race car from a street type car, add lightness and simplify.
> >
> > 20 year old Italian cars - all of the advanced features have long since been
> > removed, all that iron oxide has been flushed from the ballast tanks (sills,
> > inner wings, boot floor, front valance - was it there to make a homoligation
> > weight ?), the engine is at race tollerances (piston slap when cold, pint
>of
> > oil each week). We'll ignore the silted rad and corroded head...
> >
>
> I resemble that remark! ;=) I'll have you know that 20 year old Italian
> cars come with the finest Factory Rust (tm) ever produced. This process
> was of course, licensed from the British.
It would seem to me that this is a very delicate and involved process,
ie. getting any metal so constantly applied with copious amounts of oil
to even resemble rusting... Good thing the Germans never got ahold of
the secret!!!!
*8o)
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