Re: <misc>Firebird, King of the Auto-X?

[Pat Donahue <pdonahue@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ron wrote:
> 
> Many comments have been posted about the straight line power of Firebirds,
> Z-28's,  and other American iron, but usually those posts are followed up
> with how bad the handling is, particularly on on auto-x type course.  Kind
> of surprised me to view our Chapter Newsletter to see the results of the big
> autocross held out at the Redskins stadium parking lot.  Dont have the
> results in front of me, but I think the fastest time of the day was run by a
> Firebird....  I didnt actually see the car or it's run, but I can only
> assume it must have been pretty heavily modified version.

Now yer gonna go and make me say this in public aren't you?  I ran
against the F-bodies in (surprise) F-Stock before I tweaked my car out
of that class.  They run very well in stock livery and all that extra
torque makes them easier to drive than my car.

Now that I'm in ESP for having changed the springs and shocks I can
_really_ get spanked by the modified versions of 'em.  Bring 'em to the
track though and lets see who plays.
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Pat Donahue CCA 125031
Vienna, VA
'91 M5 4GTFUL
'72 MGB 8LYFGR&

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