[R-390] R-390 and Jagrolets

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> I shoulda been so lucky. My dadf died in 1947. So, in 1964 ( at age 23 )I
> put a Corvair engine in front of  a Ferrari 5 speed transmission in a Lotus
> 11 ( that is a front engine car ). Select a gear---- any gear--- and let out
> the clutch and burn rubber for at least a block. It turned the quarter in the
> mid elevens and had a top end over 198 MPH. Try 180 HP and 940 pounds anytime
> you feel froggy. That is about a horsepower per 5 pounds or roughly what you
> get in a Grand Prix Car. I will be damned if I can figure out how to connect
> the above to an R-390 post.


My dad had a Lotus 11 for many years. He drove out to Oklahoma to buy it
after it was in the movie, State Fair. It always had the Coventry Climax
engine. He raced it at Road Atlanta when it first opened.

He was one of those guys who absorbed electronics at the Einstein level
somehow. Never knew how he learned so much all of a sudden. He bought me a
crystal kit when I was a kid. I bet he would get his jollies tearing into RF
decks every night. 

Your Lotus sounds like his Volvo with the 289. We went out on I-285 when it
was finished but not open to the public yet and raced around most of it at
speeds over 150 mph.  We never knew how fast it would go.


Barry