I spent much of my yoof trying to make my ratty old m/cycles go faster, and once into cars I carried out a continuation of that process, though as I "matured" I began to appreciate a degree of originality and that of balance that tended to be engineered into machinery to make it more reliable in a wider range of circumstances, where my previous attempts at improvement tended to considerably reduce the original wide range of balance honed down to a pin point, outside of which the thing would be a pig in any set of circumstances, other than those I had prioritised.... Around that time my uncle, a m/cycle racer advised that if you want a fast machine buy one designed to go fast.. It took quite a while to admit to myself he was entirely correct, however having typed that I would not discourage anyone from spending their cash and learning much in terms of trying to make an old dog perform new tricks... (-:
I have a friend who has a garage full of his projects, one of which has been in build for some time is a fifties (?) Ford F100 pick up truck into which he has fitted a Coyote engine, not satisfied with that degree of craziness, he has bought a blower to strap onto the thing, Nuts or what...? My friend has the full range of skills and the determination to turn out a very special machine every now an then... Who am I to judge the end product of his efforts, when they in no way match my somewhat more base automotive ideals...?
From the above paragraph it seems things may have moved on a tad from an A35 with an oversized engine...(-: As for the test of car control that might be required by an A35 on and interesting country road, I suspect that A 35`s driver input can perhaps be more than matched over the same road in my Trad Morgan given it`s pseudo vintage construction which is decades behind that of the A 35, all be it not with crossply tyres.. but then the old Mogs engine output has enough in it to make the radials almost feel like crossply`s.... (-:
Yesterday I drove the C4S then the Mog back to back... Once in the Mog I extended the drive as I was enjoying it so much more. The Porsche is a wonderful machine designed by highly skilled engineers to adapt to any of the many different operational requirements it`s owner may require it to perform, and to my eyes it`s curves are beautiful indeed, the quality of it`s engineering etc.etc.etc. Yeah it is a great pity that envy in others can create issues for owners of Porsches and their likes, but then that is life is it not..?
Bottom line for me was that on arrival back home in the old Mog yesterday, I felt more alive than I had done in some considerable time, making the old Mog feel quite a bit more special to me than the 991, though on a cold wet typical West of Scotland day, that degree of emotional involvement could all swap back round in an instant...(-:
