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

["Armand Eshleman" <aje1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hope you didn't take any of those comments personally Tom, it wasn't
intended that way. I'm sorry I left out the part about how much money was
being spent. I was always in the same category as most of us when I was
racing. some of my competition (the winners) used new rubber each weekend. I
never had new rubber the whole time I raced. It does put ones efforts into
perspective doesn't it. I apologize and I'm sorry, Tom,  if you took offense
to my comments.
Armand
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Jennings" <tomj@xxxxxxx>
To: "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans." <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Amc-list] corner carving rear drive cars


> 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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