Years and years ago, in my muscle car days (before “muscle cars” were a rich
man’s game) I had an Olds 442 for sale. A fellow called and we arranged a
viewing and “demonstration” drive.
We tootled along for about 30 minutes with him behind the wheel. He drove
gently and seemed reluctant to comment on the car, much less commit to
actually buying it. It was an ultra clean example. I knew he wouldn’t find
anything nicer for the money. He just needed a nudge.
I suggested that I take the wheel. Heh heh.
On a quiet road I nailed the throttle from a dead stop and the rear tires
howled and smoked for about 50 feet… and it took a full quarter turn of
the steering wheel to compensate for the sideways slew. The 1-2 shift
resulted in more tire smoke and, again, a slew to the right.
He exclaimed “I’LL BUY IT, I’LL BUY IT !!” before we even hit 60 mph
That was a pretty fast car. Horrible brakes, though. It could get ya into
trouble but it couldn’t get ya out !
Cheers
Doug Dwyer
Longview Washington USA
1995 XJRFrom: “John Testrake” jtestrake@aol.com
I remember that discussion Doug. Your hoonishness has been well
documented. Perhaps you just need more right rudder on that rocket
ship of yours.
In reply to a message from darrenmb1968 sent Sun 8 Jul 2012:
I am in Canada and yes its true the Canadian spec cars had LSD’s
but I recently imported a US spec 73 s1 from the US (Seattle) and
it has an LSD. May not be the original diff but there is nothing to
indicate its’s been swapped.
Chris–
The original message included these comments:
I was wondering if my jag might have a limited slip diff,as
