What about the Porsche 909 Bergspider? It weighed about bugger all.
What about the Porsche 909 Bergspider? It weighed about bugger all.
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where do Classics start? Pre war too?
In which case I am tempted to say Alfa Romeo 8C2300.
For "modern" race cars the handling of a Chevron B16-19 left not much to be desired.
Fleet's suggestion for a road car is of course a joke, a BMW 2002 TI might be getting close to the ideal set up in the handling department.
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From what I hear the late 60s early 70s Alfa GTs have to be in there
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Perhaps Mark II for a better handling Jag?
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U.S. cars, including those beloved Trans-Am Firebirds and Corvettes till 1980 varieties were a handling nightmare if compared with the European cars of the same vintage... Even those over-powered MOPAR cars hardly compared to European competition, with the sole exception of their brutal power.
please ... please ..... PLEASE Fleet, we've done that argument to death
Let it go
"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting, but it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously." Douglas Adams
Over the years smaller cars have been proven to handle better that bigger and heavy cars. I can only think of all the 'underpowered' cars in the 60 and 70's on the track. In good conditions the muscle cars elimanated everything, but add a bit of rain...
In South Africa we had the longer and hilly tracks. This were musclecar territory. But on the shorter and flatter tracks it's the fourbangers that do the racing....only due to better handling.
I can only imagine myself a 69 Caddy balls to the wall down the main straight at Killarney only to see Malmesbury corner popping up under the Goodyear bridge.....................................
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I have been doing so much with so little for so long I can do anything with nothing.
Fiberglass is traditional.From Malmesbury,South Africa
As an example, a '70 Corvette handled better than a '70 Porsche (forgot the model, 911 or something like that). Maybe that Porsche was a worst/midpack car?
In the years I've been posting on this forum, show me one post in which I seriously made such a claim.Fleet, American cars were/are not the best at everything
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