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In Reply to: Welcome Back ! posted by Interstage Tranny on July 17, 2017 at 07:49:50:
No mid-life crisis, it's been an entire life's obsession.
My wife's cousin's husband bought himself a TR-3 a few years back, it was retirement gift.
I've been out in a couple of times. I'm not a jealous person but that car makes me green.
Right now, I have aCobaltSS and I know it will run rings around that TR. It looks brand-new, and it's so clean there's no rust on the nuts and bolts under the car. Replaced the front struts a few weeks ago, piece of cake.
It's the fastest car I've ever owned, corners perfectly flat, goes right where you point it but...but...no remote shift linkage is ever going to be as good as a shifter mounted directly on the tranny. Electric power steering is numb as hell, can't hold a candle to manual steering in a lightweight car. It's got a stinking CANBUS which radically complicates even simple shit like changing the stereo. It's nearly twice as heavy as a Spridget. It's got a sunroof but that's just not the same as a roadster. And it's aCobalt. It doesn't matter than a Cobalt SS was once the fastest front-drive small car around the Nurburgring, or was one of the fastest cars in not one but two Car and Driver Lightning Laps. It's still aCobalt.By the way, the Spridget is live axle, not swing arms. The later Midget MkII (and Sprite MkIII) uses full semi-elliptical rear springs instead of the quarter-elliptics like the Frogeye. Front discs from the later cars are easily adapted to the older Spridgets and most of them have been updated at any rate. The only Midge I will avoid is the MkIV.
And I'm not looking to drive really fast (at least, this is one of the selling points I'm using on the trouble and strife), just have fun. It'll take plastic surgery to get the smile off my face.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
Edits: 07/17/17
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