Watch it Sid, don't go there or else :)
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "sidney raper" <spl310@hotmail.com>
To: <gkmcc@netgate.net>; <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
Cc: <Fred_Katz@ci.sf.ca.us>; <SLBESQ@aol.com>;
<datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 7:03 AM
Subject: Re: The Winner
> I saw something interesting this morning. I am not an AOL subscriber, but
> the relatives that we are visiting are, so I got a chance to poke around
> AOL. One of the hot links this morning shows the results of the Guy and
> Chick cars survey. The #3 chick car was the Miata! Interesting
> results.....
>
> Sidney Raper
> 1964 1500
> 1967 SRL311 00060
> 1967 SRL311 00076
> Jacksonville Florida
> http://www.geocities.com/roadsternut/index.html
>
>
>
>
> >From: "Gary K. McCormick" <gkmcc@netgate.net>
> >Reply-To: "Gary K. McCormick" <gkmcc@netgate.net>
> >To: datsunmike <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
> >CC: Fred_Katz@ci.sf.ca.us, SLBESQ@aol.com,
datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> >Subject: Re: The Winner
> >Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 21:16:41 -0700
> >
> >It just goes to show, a convertible should be designed from the get-go as
a
> >convertible. As for the Honda and Miata, having another 20 or 30 years of
> >structure technology development to work with helps too!
> >
> >Gary McCormick
> >'70 2000 (Hangar Queen)
> >San Jose, CA
> >
> >datsunmike wrote:
> >
> > > Fred,
> > >
> > > Make that semi-rigid. Compared to my Miata and a Honda S2000 the
> >Roadsters
> > > are flexiflyers.
> > >
> > > The Roadster is still better than the Tbird, as that car is a
boulevard
> > > cruiser. Every article I read mentions the same problem regarding the
> > > handling, or more precisely the lack of it. Typical American car.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <Fred_Katz@ci.sf.ca.us>
> > > To: <SLBESQ@aol.com>
> > > Cc: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> > > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 6:13 PM
> > > Subject: Re[2]: The Winner
> > >
> > > > On 8/24/2001 SLBESQ@aol.com wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >In a message dated 08/23/2001 1:49:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > > > >svgkm@halley.ca.essd.northgrum.com writes:
> > > > >
> > > > >> The part I love is " ...the frame is made from two rugged steel
> > > > >pipes... " > Colin Chapman,
> > > > >>
> > > > >
> > > > >note the strut tower brace for added torsional rigidity
> > > >
> > > > Yesterday, I read this article on the new Thunderbird roadster. Lots
> > > > of lavish praise about that car. In a way, it sort of looks like our
> > > > Datsun roadsters. Then the article mentioned that the car had some
> > > > handling problems with twisting and flexing on the road. And then it
> > > > mentioned that the car design was based on another hardtop car, that
> > > > they cut the roof off to make it a convertible roadster. One big
plus
> > > > about our Datsuns is our rigid frame.
> > > >
> > > > Fred - So.SF
>
>
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