RE: Speed Channel

[JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just a comment on the AMX braking.  That aspect of the
AMX has been mentioned in most of the old driver test
articles published when the AMX first appeared.  My
AMX is still a project car and I don't know what I
will do to cure it, but I assume I will have that
bridge to cross.  With adjustable brake proportioning
valves on the market now, I don't think it would be
too hard to cure that problem even if I keep the
factory disk brakes.

Yes I was also disappointed that the reviewers seemed
to be "big 3" guys and they disparaged the Javelin in
saying that it won the Trans-AM series only after the
Big 3 pulled out of the series in 71 and 72.  But the
fact remains that the 1970 technology which had led
Ford to a win in 1970 was still available and the AMC
team bettered the Fords in 1971 and 72. 

--- Armand Eshleman <aje1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> 
> I am beginning to strongly dislike those two
> characters that do the muscle
> evaluations on Speed.
> Those bozos always pick an AMC car that appears to
> be a hot setup, but they
> always manage to
> somehow downgrade the performance of it. Like for
> example the green AMX they
> compared to
> some other muscle cars, stopped poorly because the
> driver let it skew to the
> side, but he easily
> managed to keep all the GM cars straight. It
> wouldn't burn out to his
> satisfaction but he launched
> it very poorly in my opinion and then he said the
> 390 didn't have much
> torque? What the heck is
> that? To top it all off the two dipsticks made some
> derogatory comment about
> how AMC wasn't
> up to the other manufacturers when it came to
> performance and then the guy
> had the nerve to imply
> that the only reason Penske/Donohue won the 71 Trans
> AM series Championship
> was because the
> other manufacturers pulled their factory support. It
> has always been my
> contention that the other
> factories saw the writing on the wall and chickened
> out of the 71 series
> because they knew that AMC
> had it in the bag already and the other
> manufacturers wanted to down play
> AMC's achievement.
> That's just my opinion, what do the rest of you guys
> think.
> 
> Armand
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