I surmise that the Monterey Historics are subject to
the same pressures (almost) as the Indy Pace Car
or Motor Trend Car of the Year fetish-- I refer to
lobbying of varying intensity by the current car-
makers, advertisers and sponsors to provide some
tie-in to marketing endeavors. While Maserati may
seem hardly more so than was Miller, it is a fact
that the Fiat/Ferrari custodians have their first new
product in more than a decade to introduce, and
they see it as a full blossomed faceoff for "Ford's"
Aston DB7 if they can properly "launch" it here.
MRogers726@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 9/10/99 3:57:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> mdunst@smtplink.coh.org writes:
>
> > Milestones in automobile engineering came fairly quickly just before and at
> > the begining of this century.
> WELL WE COULD RACE MILESTONE CARS-- XK120, DB-2,3,4,5, AH100-4, ETC
> Actually, in line with your comments, I think we should have a special place
> in our lives for the limey cheepies that allowed sportscar racing to
> flourish: the MG, Singers, Jowett Jupiters, TR, Sprites even the Healys
> although they were a bit expensive in comparison. we could even include the
> Crossly not so much for the Supper sport though it DID win the index of
> performance at sebring in 51(?) but for all the H/modified and F Jr. motors
> it provided. Without these Marques, sportscar racing would probably be like
> horse racing is -- and sportscar racing is becoming -- only for the Affluent!
> Count the horse tracks and compare them to the number of road race tracks.
> OUR SPORT was for a while something that WE (most of us weren't born with the
> proverbial Silver spoon in our mouth) could become involved with. The
> auspicious celebrations we now either participate in or wish to are the
> result of these humble-cast iron LUMPS that we could afford to thrash. THERE
> DAM WELL SHOULD BE A CELEBRATION IN THEIR BEHALF!!
> Michael Rogers
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