Off Panhard bar

Greg Hermann bearbvd at sni.net
Sun Mar 14 03:39:43 GMT 1999


>Re: the Rover DeDion.
>It's been a while since I was under my brother's 2000TC, so I cannot
>remember how it was set up, but I can tell you I have never driven
>anything, before or since, that cornered and handled like that car! It
>was BEAUITIFUL- it would carve through corners at 110MPH (wide open)
>that other cars fought with at 80. You could cruise all day in it
>without getting tired.
>Fixing the brakes was another story, and it was impossible to remove
>either engine or tranny separately - when he knocked the bendix off the
>starter it was a 2 day job to retrieve it and replace it - generally a
>most miserable thing to work on.

They WERE sweet to drive, weren't they??

Like I say--If I ever win the lotto and build a Cobra replicar, I would try
to figure a way to put a (way beefier) version of that suspension under
that back end of it!!

Greg





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