This allure is true for most of us Jim (my story has been posted before, I will just link it):
But, sleek looks aside, to the youngsters that grew up behind the iron curtain who had little-to-none exposure to “real” cars, this was really “IT” (I must say that these races were never on TV back then, and one could only hear about the championships from radio Free Europe or BBC, both of which had un-redacted news in various languages – thus, the names Jaguar XJS, Audi Quattro, Lancia Delta were legends)
