[Tigers] Alpines rock!

[Owain Lloyd]

Horsepower shmorsepower, but i'd guesstimate this was a similar amount.
Its also holbay head on twin 45s (built by chris draycot). Not that it
matters much on a twisty road, handling and torque are more important.
Some of these 911s were proper tuthill cars but all period legal and
despite the power advantage they just don't handle as well as the alpine
which is completely neutral.  I suspect they did know we were racing as
they were in the same event!  Its a real beater car worth about 8-10k $ but
inspires such confidence.   Maybe I also have slightly bigger balls...
Comes in handy sometimes! :)

Agree there are hardly two more dissimilar cars to the alpine and tiger.
On Mar 2, 2014 5:48 PM, "Jay Laifman" <jay.laifman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an Alpine with a 125 hp Holbay engine, and my dad's Tiger, as well
> as a '73 911 and a '67 912.
>
> The Alpine is a wonderful handling car, and on paper has more hp/lb than a
> stock 260 Tiger.  But they are completely different animals and one is not
> better than the other.
>
> As to trouncing 911s.  BS.  ;-)  It just must have been your driving
> ability (or the Porsches didn't know you were racing them).  My 911 is the
> "lowly" T and there is no way either hopped up Alpine or Tiger can touch it
> on the race track.  Just not true.  Sorry.
>
> Now, which is my favorite car to drive to work every day - the 912, with
> the lowest HP of all of them.  I never ever expected to like that car.  Got
> it as a fluke.  The engine, which I would think is a VW engine, is not.
>  It's the last iteration of the 356 engine - the engine that made the
> company famous.
>
> But, there is nothing, nothing like the torque and roar of that Tiger.
>  Puts a smile on my face every time I shift.  And sometimes the lower the
> RPM I shift, the more of the smile.
>
> Jay
>
>
> On Mar 2, 2014, at 9:42 AM, Owain Lloyd wrote:
>
> > I competed in a 5 day event in France this week in an Alpine belonging
> to a
> > friend (who is an ex British rally champion).  It was sooooo good that
> I'm
> > trying to think how I can convert my tiger to a 4 banger.  Not much power
> > but loads of torque and simply amazing road holding.  I was quite
> literally
> > trouncing 911s in it.  The tiger would have been much much slower due to
> > it's terrible handling.
> >
> > Falling out of love?  Someone save me!
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