Dick,
The Corvette Z06 in the test was good for 174. The Superbird/Daytona you
reffered to was a NASCAR racecar driven by the late Bobby Issacs, far from
"Production". I don't think we can classify at GT-40 as a production, daily
driver either.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
To: Dan Warner <dwarner@electrorent.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: Fastest Production Car
> Didn't good old Detroit engineering already do
> better than that? Didn't a production Dodge
> Daytona (NASCAR winged wonder) go faster than
> that on the salt back in 1970? If not, it would
> seem that a new vette or trans am with good gears
> might be able to attack that. Seems like an old
> Ford GT-40 did better than that on the salt a
> while back too.
>
> Dick J
>
> --- Dan Warner <dwarner@electrorent.com> wrote:
> > Some time back there was a question as to the
> > fastest production car. I get
> > a couple of magazines from a guy here at work
> > and looking at the Nov. issue
> > of Road & Track I see a test of 5 sports cars.
> > The fastest in the shootout
> > is a Lamborghini Diablo GT at 202.6 mph on the
> > VW test track they used.
> >
> > Dan (we all need a 200 mph street car so we can
> > sleep in)Warner
> >
>
>
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