Posted on 04/18/2002 3:40:20 AM PDT by 2Trievers
I had one of those.
348, positraction, 3-2's...pretty fast...60 mph in first
I have to agree with you there, but it is possible to combine the two. I look back now and wonder how I ever 'did it' in that thing but we even did it under the tonnau cover once.
P.S. My Morgan is sort of a basket case right now. I smashed it up some years ago and bent the frame pretty badly. I visited the factory and arranged to have a new frame and aluminum body built for it. It's all hanging up in my garage, waiting to be assembled while the years go by...
Have you ever visited the factory? I've been there three times.
In my youth I was obsessive about keeping the top down (which ain't so easy in Michigan) I kept it down all winter once, but...once was enough. Another time, my wife and I toured New England in the Morgan, but in order to make room for all our camping gear, we left the top home. Drove through some fierce rainstorms that way. Didn't do much for the leather.
This car is already being built in Australia. It is called a Monaro and I beleive it is a V8 rear wheel drive. It sounds like fun to this 69 year old grear head. My wifes daily driver is a 95 Riviera with the SUPERCHARGED 3.8. It weighs 3700#, gets 18 around town, 28 on the hiway and hauls the frieght. I drive the 99 Silverado 4x4.1500. My project truck is the 1968 Chev Stepside I bought new, black with flames. My grand son is helping me. BTW, I traded my 65 GTO tri-power after I raced it for 3 years.
That is funny... Prisms are just rebadged Corollas. GM has a contract with Toyota to produce them on the exact same line, side by side. They are 99% identical. Only the resale value on the Chevy is much less than the Toyota because of brand reputation, Toyota is overrated and everyone knows GM makes crap. However, if you want to get a used Corolla cheap, buy a Prism of the same year and you get the same car.
The last version of the RX was a very fast, very sophisticated automobile.
Wow. I only live about ten miles from the Chrysler factory, but I've never been there!
The Morgan factory is literally a step back in time. You can see guys pounding out the new fenders with a hammer. Another guy making special nuts an bolts, a room with about ten women in it sitting at sewing machines, making the tops and interiors. It's amazing. But it's been about ten years since I've been there. Don't know if things have changed. But I doubt it.
Do you ever race your 4/4, like in gymkannas or rallys and club stuff like that? The 4/4s handle much better than the plus fours like mine. I knew this guy who used to beat 911s all the time with his 4/4 at gymkannas events, even though it was much less powerful.
Just doing the sums now on a 1928 Chev half ton 4 cyl truck to keep it company.
I hope the Australian company makes it LOOK like a Goat---nostrils, that big toothy grill, etc. My father had 3 of them over the years when I was young, and I'd give anything to have his '72 right now. Those were fantastic cars.
Heh... how did the old TV ad go? "Piston engine goes 'Boing, Boing, Boing' but the Mazda goes 'Hummmmmmm'" - something like that, IIRC. Yes, the Wankles are interesting, but very specialized work.
Know what else Goes Like Hell? A 1991-'94 Toyota MR2. Especially when you drop in one of those sweet little 3.0 liter V-6 engines from a '94 and later Camry, Avalon or Solara. It literally bolts right up - only minor machine work is needed to slide an axle bushing retainer over about 1/4". 200 hp from a super-reliable six-banger - and if you insist on more power, slap a Toyota Racing Development supercharger on it. The aluminum V-6 weighs no more than the cast-iron 4-cyl. engine that it replaces, so the handling does not suffer. Trickiest part is wiring and exhaust, but what a nifty little ride to go hunting Boxsters in. ;-)
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