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[VintageLambo] Re: OT: Tigers

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In a message dated 24/04/03 8:18:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time, lambojambo@aol.com writes: The Tiger is definitely not a Grand Touring car, not even close.Wheelbase way too short, there"s no room and it"s a sweat box.I mean, A SWEAT BOX! Well the footboxes DO sort of wrap around the engine a bit. I immediately realized that it was underpowered too, with that 260.Mainly because the rear end is around the same number... (can"t remember the exact ratio, but around the mid-2s).It it as total slug off the line. That"s not the biggest problem for racing (I mean REAL racing around a track, turning both ways, not that so-called racing in a straight line that so appeals to adolescents and others cases of arrested development) was the 13" wheels and the impossibility of fitting adequate brakes inside them. And the Salisbury 4HU diff they used had (I think) a 2.88 ratio so as not to wind the engine up too much using those Dinky toy wheels. Loved my Tiger to bits!The guy that bought it from me went racing in it.But the Lambo is just SO FAR beyond all that, and beyond just about everything else too. I have often pondered what I would do if I came across an Islero or earlier 400 or 350 that had been gutted/burnt etc. At some point it is easier to make a car into a race car than to restore it (or at least that"s the excuse I"d stick to) and with suitable mods to the engine (large capacity Accusump, for one) it would certainly make a rather different vintage race car! I"ve run against (and beaten, by the way) Ferrari 250GTs in my MG, but it would be more interesting to have another Italian car do the deed. Probably bestthat I never find such a beast! Bill