Posted by jdemaris on December 09, 2010 at 14:11:00 from (72.171.0.143):
In Reply to: o/t Powerful cars - TVR posted by bill from scotland on December 09, 2010 at 13:43:18:
I worked at gas station next door to an "import car" dealer mid to late 60s. 10 miles from New York City. They sold British/Rootes Sunbeam Tigers and TVRs, both with small-block Ford V8s. Also Triumphs with their own strange V8s, or upgraded 215 c.i. aluminum V8s (once made by Buick). I never could of afford a TVR, but owned (and ruined) many Sunbeam Tigers. Where I lived, it was the Sunbeam Tigers that were known as the "poor mans Cobra."
They came with 260 or 289 Ford V8s, Ford cast-iron four-speed trans, ladder bars in back, and a Jeep posi-rear-axle. They also had terrible steering engineering with an in-correct Ackerman angle when turning left or right.
My newest was a 65, with an upgraded 302 and it was amazing little car. Also had floorboards that got so hot they could almost melt your sneakers.
Around the same time, I got to work on a pair of Daimler fiberglass body sports cars that had tiny little German V8s in them. I was told they were built to scale and half-size copies of Chrysler hemis.
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