RE: alfa-digest V7 #765

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>]

> So. I'll be bold enough to proclaim myself a winter GTV6 expert (just
> completed the third winter with the 84 GTV6 as sole winter transport
(unless
> you count my muck-luks). I'll tell you man, I'm running the best snow and
ice
> tires money can buy and this car is a true challenge in the winter.
Handling
> is actually quite good in the snow. The 50/50 weight distribution is a
real
> plus. But I get this car stuck high centered if'n Mr. Snowplow
<snip>

paul glynn ran a gtv6 last winter as his ice racer.  i think he came in
second place overall, just behind a pretty modified scirocco, or some other
volkswagon product.  the gtv6 is pretty mild, with some tuning done to the
motor, stock suspension, studded tires, and a platinum rear end.

nothing can touch him in a straight line, and of course his racing line
through the corners is quite different from the front wheel drive cars.

even funnier, he showed me a copy of a bmw club newsletter for some ice
racing stuff in maine.  all of the bmw's were running lap times of around a
minute, and one rookie showed up in a milano and his lap times were around
thirty five seconds!  they placed the non-bmw lap times at the very bottom
of the results, and there was this one milano and one volkswagon running in
the low thirty second lap times, and all of the bmw's, including the ones
with traction control, were around a minute.

bs

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