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RE: [VintageLambo] High speed Espada

Robinson, Aaron

I would like to know how Henrick the Road Viking gets his Espada to those speeds without his windshield wipers flying off the glass. Above 80 mph my driver"s side wiper starts to wiggle, at 90 mph it gets light, at 100 it leaves the glass and floats upward on an invisible cushion of air, as if being checked for replacement by the seraphic hand of Ferruccio himself. Clearly the springs in the wiper arm have aged and stretched and probably should be replaced. Or, I could fashion up a little air foil to hold it down. It"s very uncool to be racing a kid in a Camaro while your windshield wipers are flying two inches above the glass.... AR -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Rosenberg To: VintageLambo@yahoogroups.com Sent: 11/11/03 1:19 PM Subject: SV: [VintageLambo] Espada first drive Hi Jude, I have just bought an Espada series 1 from 1969 (maybe built 1968) 3 weeks ago. The car cost me about 30.000 euro which is in the higher range, but very fair compared to the condition. My car had a bare naked body restoration 2 years ago and all inner engine and gearbox parts + suspensions + brakes + power steering was restored 10 years (3000 km) ago at the Lamborghini factory. I think the extra 10 k are very well spend, specially if you can"t or won?t do the restoring by yourself. The car its fitted with a s3 powerstering unit, and I do find the clutch much more havy than any other car I have tried. About the feeling of speed, I think that my standard Espada is pretty quick compared to even newer cars but as mentioned before the acceleration from a complete stop isn"t that impressive, but when it picks up speed...wow! I drove my Espada home from Swiss to Denmark (1300 km), and almost half the way on the german Autobahn without speed limits :) The accelerating from 130 km/h is very quick indeed and my car had no problems to keep the pace in the left lane (and they DO drive fast on the German autobahn). When my Espada reaches 200 km/h (125 mph) the acceleration becomes quite slower, and I haven"t tried more than 220 km/h (140 mph). If I had the road and the guts I guess it could do about 240 km/h, which I find very good in despite of the poor aerodynamics. But what a feeling in a 34 years old car without seat belts, I felt like I was doing 300+ km/h. Henrik Rosenberg Espada ?69 Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to