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Re: Production Cars

To: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: Production Cars
From: Joe Amo <jkamo@rapidnet.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:07:52 -0600
"""If you had gold insulation in the engine compartment of your car would you
put it on the salt ??"""

You would if you wanted a world recognized record, besides who says that "gold
insulation" is worth more than my blood, sweat and tear lined vinyl?       Joe
:)

Malcolm Pittwood wrote:

> In Britain it has been accepted that the McLaren F1 3 seater road car is a
> production unit - if you had $1,000,000 you could buy this Supercar ready
> made from the factory (from the most exotic materials).
> How fast it goes depends upon the location.  At Millbrook, England it
> lapped at 195.3 mph average speed.  On the VW test track in Germany (a
> straight line flat track) its maximum speed was recorded as 240.1 mph.  At
> Nardo in Italy on a  banked oval it went 231 mph.  On a 2 mile runway in
> the UK a journalist hit a speed of 211 mph (similar to a run at Maxton).
>
> If you had gold insulation in the engine compartment of your car would you
> put it on the salt ??
>
> Malcolm Pittwood, Derby, England. (where I do not have a $1 million to buy
> one either).




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