Please talk me down

Say Tom, I don't think they are out of allottments here in Seattle ! You order one and I will go pick it up and drive it to your house :-) ..... what do you think ? :-) ( I would even buy the gas ! )

Bruce RED '91 ( in Seattle )

Excellent. Retro displacement and modern technology. This will clearly get the Mustang newsgroup all worked up.

Dana

That'd start getting into the AC Cobra territory in a big way. Actually, the thought of building a Cobra 427 replica would have been preposterous to me 15 years ago but now it sounds like a fun project if all the planets were to line up.

Building a stretched "Cobra 490"; whew... that'd be a money pit.

:-)

Dana

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:45:35 GMT, Tom Howlin wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@rcn.net:

Maybe this partial reality check will help.

"Lanny Chambers" wrote

"BRUCE HASKIN" wrote

V12 = Martha... I hope you're gonna clean that seat. :)

Though, the V-12s out there don't seem to be quite the big-block American monsters that the V-10s are.

Dana

DON'T SELL THE MIATA.

I went through this situation last year. Bought a Subaru STi, drove it for six months--12,000 miles--and sold it. Sure it's awesomely fast, tight, reasonable gas mileage, great on gravel and snow, more practical than a Miata, blah, blah. All the car mags love the STi and the Corvette.

But: High performance sports cars are not, in daily use, nearly as much fun as a little Miata. The Miata is fun because in normal daily driving you can push towards its limits a bit, say on the highway entrance ramp. In a real performance car like a Corvette or an STi, the limits are so high that you can't get near them on the road. In a 50 mph situation where your Miata is fun, the Corvette will be boring. Are you going to be screaming around at

LUCKILY for me, I didn't sell my Miata. Just kept it parked in the garage for six months. Then one nice day last spring I got it out and put the top down and went for a drive, and when I got home I took the STi back to the dealer...

It's not about the power, it's about the sound... You rally can't beat the sound an Aston Martin Vanquish makes.

:-)

Except maybe a Maseratti?

;)

Aw, get over it!