I highly doubt that our cars had 96HP or 125HP in reality. Like many cars of
that era HP figures were highly exagerated. They may be faster than a GT6
but that's nothing to brag about.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: <CalSpeed@aol.com>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: OT - 68 Triumph GT6 4 sale
> In a message dated 10/4/01 12:36:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> colonel_klink510@yahoo.com writes:
>
>
> > An acquaitance asked me if I was interested in buying a 68 GT6 that he
> >
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Nice and informative site. Just reading up alittle on this car amazed me
on
> the amount of performance that our Roadsters had during the period that
these
> cars were produced. Based on the information of the GTS site the cars put
> out about 105hp with 0-60 times around 10 seconds. Btw... these were 6
> cylinder cars too.
>
> Comparing it to our Roadsters it is no wonder why Japanese cars were hated
by
> the other marques. How embarrasing it must have been for a 4 cylinder
> production car to put out 96hp in a 1600 and 150hp in a 2000.
>
> Ciao!
>
> Calspeed
>
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