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Re: Fw: [VintageLambo] Miuras & Handling. I am afraid not

Greg

Rein, I enjoy all your emails... and because you"re a very well-informed member of the list, I like to spar with you when I think you"re taking a Brand Bias position ;-) I would like to propose a Vintage Ferrari-Lamborghini Run on one of the west coast tracks.The purpose would not be for one group or the other to pummel the opposition, but rather conduct the event like a good Oxbridge rivalry.If this were to be implemented in conjunction with, let"s say, a regular Alfa Club Event, some of the headaches associated with the track rental could be avoided. Of course, it"s not easy to get people with precious metal to take their cars out on the track, so the Streets of Willow might be offered as a very low risk environment... and Laguna Seca might be considered for a dramatic, historic setting. The breakdown of car categories would be fairly easy, and if we were fortunate enough to have modified cars or ex-F1 drivers, they"d run in their own class. Again, I think this would be a lot of fun... and a tremendous photo shoot opportunity. Best Regards, Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: rvosari To: VintageLambo@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 6:38 AM Subject: Re: Fw: [VintageLambo] Miuras & Handling. I am afraid not Greg, You gotta stop taking this stuff personally... The problem is that the Miura was around 9 years old when this took place... and it was not clapped out... Alfredo and Alberto of Modena used to look after the car... The owner was an older guy who I knew, who did not think that the car"s handling was "quite right" That"s why I took it to the race car shop and made sure that everything was "factory spec"... How was I supposed to know that the car was a "flexible flyer" You should give me credit for running 5 laps with virtually Zero brake REV (:>) PS. The 275 was not the end of the world but it was an easy car to drive fast... stable, predictable and no "flexing" --- In VintageLambo@yahoogroups.com, "Greg" wrote: > Oh Rein, > > I love it when you talk dirty about my favorite car ;-) > > It just serves to remind me (yet again) that many (most?) past and present Ferrari owners still have open wounds over the introduction of the Miura... yikes! ... 37 years later?!. > > As for myself, I"ve said it before and I"ll say it again... I think those 60"s GTBs were very beautiful cars... even if they were more evocative of the previous (great) decade.In fact, my wife would look great in a 275 GTB.She"d also know how to handle the thing with zero track time.And as we all know, neither Uncle Enzo nor Ferruccio were naive.That"s why Lamborghini never developed his cars for the track and Uncle Enzo made his street cars (never the object of his real affection) with the polar moment of the Queen Mary (engine at the front axle and trans/diff at the rear)... so that anyone, regardless of ability, could drive them. > > Now it"s true that the Miura gained weight over it"s life to improve chassis rigidity and handling.But never to the degree of the obese 365 GTB and could pull more lateral Gs that anything Ferrari/Fiat produced up to the 288 GTO (using identical performance tires). > > And I too must admit feeling a rather base urge to run home and bring my VW Rabbit Pickup truck back to Laguna Seca after watching all those pretty GTBs (FOC running the day after the Monterey Historics) lapping8 seconds slower that my normally aspirated 2 liter gardener"s truck. But that"s about as relevant as your chasing a dentist in a Pantera with a clapped out miura (static suspension measurements are worthless when your suspension"s shot). > > But why engage in all this phallus flapping? > > What I think would be really fun would be to cast all this bench racing aside and put Precious on the track with a 275 and/or 365.It would be quite a visual and aural treat.Lag