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Re: Maserati but not Porsche

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Subject: Re: Maserati but not Porsche
From: dg50@daimlerchrysler.com
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:42:36 -0500
"Roger Johnson" <rjohnson@friendlynet.com> grouched

> Funny - ran a local Toledo event last summer with Ryan-
> the-17-year-old's Pinto. He ran in FSP, I looked for another class.
> Wheels too wide for STR, so I ran in SM.

> Most of THOSE younger folks had no idea what the car was.
> Upon finding out that it was a Ford (!) and 30 years old(!!)
> the reaction was priceless.  When it beat all but one of them,
> the muttering was intense.

> Somewhere, at this very moment, one of them is putting the
> Pinto on the exclusion list.

No they're not. The Powers That Be can tell the difference between car
potential and driver performance. Not to mention the amusement factor
behind having Roger being a closet SM driver. :)

DG

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