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Ruel Smith proclaimed:
> wrote: > > >>The Ford GT IS two hundred grand-but it's maybe fifty grand worth of >>car, tops. > > > Buahahahahaha... Oh my god the laughter... They got orders for them for the > next couple of years and people are paying as much as $100 grand over > sticker for them, as reported on Motorweek. I think the market decides the > value of a good, at least in capitalism. ....and every one of them is being recalled for such a trivial thing as the cast suspension control arms cracking. |
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Not all Americans are hillbilly jackoffs. A lot of them are, but some
of us are intelligent people who have a moderately good idea of what the rest of the world is like. American road racing, if not as big as NASCAR or other sports entertainment, has a long proud history, we have nothing to be ashamed of really. But we've never had quite an Enzo Ferrari. We had Miller, Kurtis, Cunningham, Shelby, the Chapparal guy, several others, they had Maserati, Bugatti (Italian born but geographically and in every other way French), Talbot, Uhlenhaut, Chapman, and a bigger bunch of others. Anyway, Ford racing mgmt DID say they wanted the cars across the line one-two-three. Miles did sandbag, and the rest is face-saving. It was the difference between beating the opponent and destroying him. It made Ford, to quote Rich Taylor (the definitive book may be his 'Modern Classics') "the overdog", and they were hated. It cost them a lot of business in England and Germany where Ford was big. And Americans were-the hick contingent-oblivious or -the bright ones-equally ****ed. And to sauce the goose, by the early seventies, the Ferraris DID have the displacement and the light weight to terrorize punks at the stoplight. Whether it was worth the wear on the clutch and CV joints was another matter-but by the Daytona they could and did. |
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The interesting thing is that the 308 chassis was designed originally
to take the Columbo V12. No one picked up on that until a Califiornia owner got the bizarre idea to see if a V12 would fit. It did, albeit with some extensive fabrication, but only just-it had to have been designed that way from the beginning. More bizarre was the 330 P three seater. Rumor has it it was originally designed for a DOHC scratchbuilt broad arrow twelve-thirty years after the Napier Railton and thirty years before a W-12 F1 engine effort recently. |
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