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In message <199708220954.KAA28720@mailserver.nhm.ac.uk> gnt@nhm.ac.uk (Graham Thackrah) writes:
> Dear Ian and Phil,
>
> >What are you going to leave off to make your ur-q "lightly-loaded"?
> >Seems every time you regale us it involves pulling a fiche reader, or
> >some obscure tool, or some combination, out of the boot of your ur-q.
> >Oh, now, wait, could you be going in someone else's?
>
> Thats where my 80 sport, at around 1000kg, may be not so overshadowed along
> the twisties? Or am I sadly mistaken, does the extra 100 bhp or so and wider
> tyres more than make up for the extra weight? Yeah, it probably does doesn't
> it, humpfh.

Well, yes.  Plus the 80 Sport has a fairly crude rear suspension.

The last time I went through Derbyshire at speed, a 328GTB had to pull
over.

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 Phil Payne
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