Re: [Amc-list] corner carving rear drive cars

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

Oh I don't take any of your comments personally in any way!

I truly look forward to seeing the hacks he did to the
Spirit. It's a good chassis. It's not like I'm gonna stop
driving AMCs because a 1993 Escort out-handles a 1970 Hornet,
out-of-the-box stock. That's like complaining that a 1963
Rambler out handles a 1933 Chevy -- well duh! The Escort is
lighter, shorter, stiffer, computerized fuel delivery, lower
to the ground, gutted to a shell, blah blah blah...

The Escort had near-race tires (Falken Azenis). We were limited
to total buy+prep cost of $500 -- I mean really, what are ya
gonna do within that?! Even agressive cheating -- which I will
point out we did not engage in any cheating (we were probably
$100 over -- you should have seen what was on the track, Series
6 BMW, etc...!)

> beats all opposition, including non turbo'ed Porches and Vipers.

Gotta fit within whatever the rules are. I ran my 79 AMX in B/SP
(street-prepared) where I was killed by high-HP prepped cars;
I ran it in F/S (stock) where I was killed by small new light
cars. Car's gotta fit the setup. I was there to have fun.

On Tue, 20 May 2008, Armand Eshleman wrote:

> I really don't want to beat a dead horse over this one, but I thought it so
> ironic that right after posting a response to Tom's comments about front
> wheel drive handling and his comments about not getting his AMCs to work
> good on a track, that an article shows up in the June issue of Hemmings
> Muscle Machines all about a guy named Earl Daugharthy and his son Dean from
> Hinckley, OH who have been campaigning an 81 AMC Spirit, that routinely
> beats all opposition, including non turbo'ed Porches and Vipers.
> All I can say is this guy knows how to make an AMC handle. I will give
> credit to very heavy modifications but none the less it is remarkable what
> the article states about the car and the handling even before the heavy
> modifications were done.
> Read it, it's a great article about our AMCs.
>
> Armand
>
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