The new Pontiac GTO is rated at 5 HP less (same shared GM LS-1 engine) and
700 lbs heavier vehicle than the C-5 Vette. Nuff said.
Jerry Erbesfield
Was - 73 Black beauty MGB roadster
Now - C-5 Black Beauty Vette roadster
E-mail: jerbesfield@mindspring.com
Website: http://jerbesfield.home.mindspring.com
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of Eric
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 8:22 PM
To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Two Super Supercharged MGB's
On Wednesday, Jul 23, 2003, at 22:15 Australia/Adelaide, Dean T. Lake
wrote:
>> Bugatti once remarked that Bentleys were the fastest trucks
>> available. Having driven a couple of Corvettes, including Bill
>> Brack's 1985 model - "refined" by GM themselves, I am not sure that
>> Bentley still
>> retains the title.
>
> The current generation Corvette is a world class sports car that can
> handle, accelerate, and brake as well as Ferraris of not very long
> ago.
Wait until you sit your bottom in a new Pontiac GTO (Aussie made Holden
Monaro).
I think it may impress a few revheads,
Eric
'68MGB MkII
Adelaide, South Australia
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