I might expect it to actually handle very well. Having had the pleasure (tounge in cheek) of owning a Lotus Europa for a couple years, some British mid engine cars from the late 70s had handling potential for mid-engine two seaters down pretty damn well. The trick was keeping it running....... Can anyone say LUCAS ELECTRONICS?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefan Mullikin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Pindell, Tim P'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:06 PM Subject: Re: SD> AC Mid-Engine Shelby > Its mid-engined, like the Fiat X-1/9 (which is one of the better handling > mid-engined sports cars ever built for the common person) Some of the > trailing throttle over-steer problems can be dialed out with proper > chassis > tuning and driver training. Though the overgrown VW bug-turned sports > cars > (aka 911's) require a lot more driver skill (read: luck) to get around the > problems inherent in the design. > > However, my guess is that in stock form the ME 3000 probably did have some > over-steer tendencies due to the big V6 shoved into the engine bay > combined > with typical British engineering of the time (as in there wasn't much > money > available to pay for good engineers). With a 2.2 Turbo it probably isn't > as > bad. > > Stefan > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of > Pindell, Tim P > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 6:40 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: SD> AC Mid-Engine Shelby > > > That's a fascinating piece of history there. I had no idea that car > existed. Thanks for sharing. I wonder if it has the similar > snap-oversteer issues of other rear-engine cars of that era. I'll > volunteer to find out. > > >> To: Shelby Club >> Subject: SD> AC Mid-Engine Shelby >> >> >> Here are some of the photos I took to share with you. >> >> http://polybushings.com/pages/AC3000ME.html >> >> >> Johnny Spiva >> PO Box 4283 >> Coos Bay Oregon 97420 > > ___________REMOVE-FOOTER-WHEN-REPLYING_________ > ShelbyDodge mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.imagilist.com/mailman/listinfo/shelbydodge ___________REMOVE-FOOTER-WHEN-REPLYING_________ ShelbyDodge mailing list [email protected] http://www.imagilist.com/mailman/listinfo/shelbydodge
