Peter typed "How long before there is a separate competition class for them? Their must be because they will trounce the best prepared ladder chassis 2.0L car!"
That is an interesting comment Peter, it seems that the lack of suspension travel in a TRAD is that which many a mad modifiers are/were motivated to resolve, and perhaps most in search of enhanced comfort in terms of reducing the crashing through pot holes effect, when you should really just drive round them..? Oops, my Luddite tendencies beginning to surface there..(-: Seems to me that race cars may not be renowned for their compliant suspension and in that regard the TRAD has matched or perhaps bettered many a more modern sports car on track as the result of the limited travel in the original design...? Thinking that the chassis flex and much that operates in symphony with all that shakes rattles and rolls, while not designed as state of the art, may still surprise a few if there is a skilled enough driver at the wheel of a TRAD..?
I may have typed before of my meeting with a roll bar equipped 993 on a mostly open view country road a few years back, I was enjoying cruising as he roared past..Hmm..? Lets just say he was not the only one very surprised as I was able to bight his bumper over the next few miles of twists turns and undulations, pot holes and all... I suspect his tyres may have stayed more in contact with terra firma than did the old Mogs, in the end he wisely gave up trying to prove the superiority of his far more modern machine..... Though I will admit to tightening up a few bits and pieces and greasing the suspension when I got the old thing back in the garage.... A few miles to remember...(-:
I was in search of a vintage driving experience in a machine that was of vintage appearance when I decided on a Morgan, and it was FUN to see how it measured up in that little 993 scenario, though how vintage is my +8 with it`s disc brakes syncro box, Koni dampers front and rear with the necessary hoop for the rear mounted dampers... hmm..? Perhaps I was cheating a tad...
