- 1. racing Austin A35 link (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:32:19 -0800
- If you want to see the car whose guts were used to create the original bugeye Sprite, check out this one at the Goodwood Revival last year. http://www.mgussin.freeuk.com/MotorRacingMovieFiles/Movies.
- /html/spridgets/2005-03/msg00478.html (7,534 bytes)
- 2. Re: racing Austin A35 link (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:15:01 -0500 reply-type=original
- You should really consider a 4.55:1 differential with the 948! It will take you a decade to get to 60 mph with a 3.9. Back markers are often a hazard on a race track.
- /html/spridgets/2005-03/msg00484.html (8,567 bytes)
- 3. RE: racing Austin A35 link (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:22:09 -0600
- John Sprinzel raced them, and produced hop up parts before the Sprite came out... WST If you want to see the car whose guts were used to create the original bugeye Sprite, check out this one at the
- /html/spridgets/2005-03/msg00486.html (8,193 bytes)
- 4. Re: racing Austin A35 link (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:07:55 -0800 reply-type=original
- Thanks guys, As at least two listers pointed out the 3.9 will be too low for a racing application. It would probably be perfect for the ridiculously low gear ratios that are in the stock A35 smoothca
- /html/spridgets/2005-03/msg00502.html (8,319 bytes)
- 5. Re: racing Austin A35 link (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:55:29 -0800 (PST)
- Saw this race on SpeedTV about a month ago, one of the best races I've ever seen. Also liked seeing the Hemi Under Glass on that site. Last time I saw that car run was at Connecticut Dragway in 1967
- /html/spridgets/2005-03/msg00512.html (8,970 bytes)
- 6. RE: racing Austin A35 link (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:18:22 -0500
- hmmm, with 847cc's and 3 cylinders i'll more likely than not be the smallest displacement car out there!!! chuck. nutt'in like a 45 year old saab.....*grin* bugeye vintage of discs, the in to will be
- /html/spridgets/2005-03/msg00513.html (8,536 bytes)
- 7. Re: racing Austin A35 link (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:52:12 -0500 reply-type=original
- I will never forget seeing a Saab just like yours actually flip over and spin on it's top like an upside down turtle doing about 35 mph down a straight at Summit Point Raceway. I still have not figur
- /html/spridgets/2005-03/msg00514.html (9,455 bytes)
- 8. RE: racing Austin A35 link (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:01:29 -0600
- Thanks for the clip. I had the great fortune of being a Goodwood on the Saturday last year, and this little car was certainly a great hit among the fans. Even myself, a person who keeps a few Jaguar
- /html/spridgets/2005-03/msg00698.html (8,403 bytes)
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