John
Let's see when we ran our corvair dune buggy initially (with turbo) that's
where I learned about oversteer & doing 360's.
That thing was built like a sherman tank & handled like one too. Steel
plating all over the place.
To continue me too-we ran Fiat 850 then the X1/9. I liked the handling
smoothness of the 850 but it lacked the power of the x1/9.
When we were in the Corvair club, an article in one of the newsletters
described a guying autoxing his x1/9 with a 140 'vair in the rear.
We could only imagine the car spinning like a top, and fun to drive.
Judy {:>}
ps-we've got guy competing regularly in DSP x1/9, does well too....
At 03:11 PM 9/8/99 -0500, John Lieberman wrote:
>You've all got me beat. I didn't run my first auto-x, actually a
>gymkhana, until '67 in San Antonio with my beefed-up '64 Corvair on
>the old Spartan-Atantic lot. Then I ran a real auto-x (a media
>celebrity deal) in a borrowed X-1/9 in Wichita at some shopping center
>in '76 or '77. But I didn't get actively involved in the sport until
>'85 here in Shreveport with my '83 Shelby Charger. Then I bought and
>started building my Mini in '86 but tossed in my '87 Daytona Shelby Z
>a few times when the Mini was laid up. Even ran an '80 Plymouth Arrow
>pick-em-up (one of our mobile news units!!) one time when everything
>else was either in the shop or under construction.
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>John (Old Fartz & TLS #37) Lieberman
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