Miata's are great in the rain, provided you are on anything but
Hooters.
Jason "RX7 KLR" Isley
jason.isley@alltel.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Bauer [mailto:ronbauer@aa.net]
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 5:10 PM
To: Scot Zediker; Jeff Winchell; Ben Thatcher
Cc: autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: C4-C5 Corvettes in stock
I would dispute the Miata being an inherently bad rain car.... Joe Goeke
and I were still normally at the top of Pax when we ran the car a couple of
years ago.
Ron Bauer
-----Original Message-----
From: Scot Zediker <roadsterboy@earthlink.net>
To: Jeff Winchell <Jeff@Winchell.Com>; Ben Thatcher <bthatch@juno.com>
Cc: autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, July 10, 2000 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: C4-C5 Corvettes in stock
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jeff Winchell <Jeff@Winchell.Com>
>To: Ben Thatcher <bthatch@juno.com>
>Cc: <autox@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 10:22 AM
>Subject: Re: C4-C5 Corvettes in stock
>
>
>> Heck, I watched Stacey
>> drive a Dodge Dakota TRUCK in the rain recently only 1-2 seconds off
>> Alan Dahl's Miata times.
>
>Myself, I take the above with a grain of salt. Miatas are, at best,
>difficult to drive in the wet. At worst, they are scary; I almost spun
mine
>on an on-ramp during a light rain.
>
>Not to impugn Mr. Molleker's abilities as a driver, but the fact that he
was
>that close to Alan's times may be due in part to the Miata's nature as a
bad
>rain car.
>
>Scot
>
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