[s-cars] The Don makes a cameo at Pikes Peak

[mlp]

Bruce, I'm guessing you could have hit 120+ on the back straight at PPIR
if,....
you'd only taken all the bodies out of Frank's trunk  :_0

>-----Original Message-----
>From: s-car-list On Behalf Of Mock, Bruce J (Bruce)

>Wanted to report to the list that Good 'Ol Frank the Don 
>Amoroso brought his fine '93 urS to the local BMW CCA DS at 
>Pikes Peak Int'l raceway this past weekend.
> 
>Frank's kinda busy these days...  What with his budding cable 
>TV career possibility and all  :)  so I thought I would report 
>in - I know he won't have time.
> 
>I was Frank's instructor and I must say he has really come up 
>the learning curve the past 2 years since last I rode with him!
> 
>I scammed on him to let me take the black beast out for a 
>cruise during the lunch-time instructor drive session.  All I 
>can say is WOW.  This car is very well dialed in.  I _think_ I 
>even got the beast to OVERSTEER just a bit once or twice.  
>Howz that for a 3800 lb. Miss Piggy?  An Oh BTW, Yes Frank 
>does have the mambo rear Happer-bar on the car set to med. 
>stiff position.  Must admit I was in the skeptic camp with 
>respect to this bar...  now I believe.
> 
>Car was fantastic to flog around this relatively short track.  
>(you can hit about a buck-15 on the back straight)   The 
>snick-snick of the lead filled 6-speed shifter, the Toyo RA1s, 
>the RS2 turbo, the Big yellows mit Pagid oranges (gotta love 
>all those colors)  and the 3" turbo-back OPEN exhaust the 
>Frank has been bragging about is EVERYTHING and more (Loud??  
>what Loud??) he has been saying that it is.  It sounded 
>positively awe-inspiring inside a car with open windows and a 
>nice concrete wall along the main straight for the sound to 
>echo off of.  Brrrrrrappppppp. Sweet AAN on full song.
> 
>Sheesh - Drove my '93 to work the next day an thought that 
>something was positively wrong with it...  The I remembered... 
>Mine is relatively stock compared to this beast
> 
>Ya gotta love a guy that will let you take his baby out for a 
>friendly flogging, right?
> 
>All hail the Don - He da man.
> 
>Bruce - I want this car - Mock