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I know someone on this BBS that will disagree with at least one of these...

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Re: 20 classic sports cars that are worse than you remember & 5 timeless
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2020, 09:46:03 PM »
There is a lot wrong with that list. Quite a few of the complaints are since it's an older car it can be expensive to fix or get parts, how does that make the car worse than I remember? That means it is an old car not that it was crap when it came out and screw you list writer for putting the Opel GT on there.

The one you are referring to is also BS, those cars were great for their time. Most of these cars were but there are a couple that belong there.

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Re: 20 classic sports cars that are worse than you remember & 5 timeless
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2020, 10:25:47 PM »
Agreed, some of the list sucks.  I posted it to poke the Weeze.

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Re: 20 classic sports cars that are worse than you remember & 5 timeless
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2020, 10:41:11 PM »
guy needs a proofreader:

But there have been some duds in the field, most notably the 966 series, which even Porsche lovers won’t touch.

there is no porsche 966.

the 1st generation miata is a well made car that can still be seen running scca track days and on the road every day.

most high end cars don't deliver what you may expect them to, for the money they command today.

but there are a couple on that list that were never good to begin with.

i'll go low dollar, high output any day over the exotics. people don't own exotic cars. the cars own those people.

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Re: 20 classic sports cars that are worse than you remember & 5 timeless
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2020, 06:20:30 AM »
The list is silly... every car ages and everyone of them is a product of their times - that’s actually most of the charm on an older “performance” car.

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Re: 20 classic sports cars that are worse than you remember & 5 timeless
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2020, 05:24:23 PM »
whatever 911 they made right before the "SC" which started in 78 I believe. Yeah those had some silly valve guides or something that Dave wouldve designed out of play dough so they leaked oil and had bad compression and stuff.
"Every day more mazdas are raced then any other car" , this is because with a couple of different things those MX5 s and the early miatas fit into all kinds of different classes.
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Re: 20 classic sports cars that are worse than you remember & 5 timeless
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Re: 20 classic sports cars that are worse than you remember & 5 timeless
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2020, 08:49:23 PM »
Is that Weeze driving through town back in the day?

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Re: 20 classic sports cars that are worse than you remember & 5 timeless
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2020, 06:20:49 PM »
That does sorta remind me of some of the streets in California .
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