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Thanks, Kevin. Wish I could've looked though your eyes and heard through your ears at Monterey.

And, yeah, what Danny says: The shifters on these cars were all in the same place, right about where the passenger's left leg would want to be. I rode shotgun with Danny one day years ago at Lime Rock, and we were pretty snug in there. I can only imagine how that went for the dudes running the original, even smaller cars in rallyes. 

The cars are tiny and were purpose-built to win LeMans and the Targa Florio & the Mille etc. and as such were designed to meet the letter of the rulebook which required them to be "road-legal sports cars" with "passenger seats," "spares kit," "windscreen," "all-weather gear" and the like. 

As with the alleged homologation of the Ferraris, there was quite a bit of pantomime (and outright fraud) built in.

Which is part of the charm, if you're a bent sort of individual.

Last edited by edsnova
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