03 Aug 97 10:42, Puleeeeze Brer Alexander Bilan, Dooooon't trow Daytona in 
dat der Briar Patch!
 AB>
 >> I've got a Mopar crazy youngster who keeps me up on all that stuff.
 AB>
 AB> You mean all that GM exposure and he's a Mopar man? =-)
An IQ over 160, but hard headed as a bowling ball.  His uncle and I used to 
be good friends, but his hard headedness caused a split over 10 years ago.
 >> guy who told me about the conversion.  I think he mentioned the parts
 >> had to be there because of the IROC thing back then.
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 AB> Now that would make sense.
Yeah but, I've never seen one on the street...:)
 AB>  On the topic of front drivers, RWD racers, those "Lets compare the
 AB> car you drive to its racing brother" Tya... as if there where
 AB> any similarities left.
There never is.  The only thing you'll find the same as what you drive is 
what they run in any stock class of NHRA. The rules say, if it didn't come 
from the factory, you can't use it, stock...
 AB>  Even when the car you drove was still a RWD version of the racer,
 AB> the darn thing was day/night different enough to hardly warrent the
 AB> glossy, absolutely trivial things they always like to point out as
 AB> being similar.
As is my IROC-Z...I love the car, but it isn't by any stretch a race car.
It's a bitchin ride on the street, but it wouldn't compete on the track.
 AB>  Other than a quick muttering that the racer is rear wheel drive,
 AB> and the engine is a big ole' v-8, you'd think the two where
 AB> identical if you had to base your judgement on these "Lets
 AB> compare.." stories. Thats what I figured.  What was the GM product
 AB> that Don Yenko had a hand in in the early 80's?
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 >> No idea.  Whatever it was, it didn't have performance as a theme did
 >> it? It would have been mere window dressing on anything they produced
 >> then.
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 AB> Oh, it was definatly performance themed. It certainly didn't do the
 AB> name justice compared to previous creations.  I'll see what I can
 AB> find out on it. Alex.
If I remember anything, it might have had something to do with an AMC car. 
Like the Gremlin or something...anything went when it came time to sell cars 
in the late 70's...
... Braille??  Where?   I don't see it....
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