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Re: Production Cars

To: "Malcolm Pittwood" <MPittwood@compuserve.com>,
Subject: Re: Production Cars
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:19:36 -0500
If it would set a Record I would.... and Hey Congrates on the Record
Malcom...

There was a Time when the Healey's also owned a bunch of endurance
records.... there doesn't seem to be the same interest in that here... but
I enjoy hearing about it.... K

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> From: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
> To: LSR List <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Production Cars
> Date: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:04 PM
> 
> 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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