[DeTomaso] 930 crashes

[pantdino at aol.com]

The Karman Ghia didn't have the power to get you into trouble and the 
 faster speed combined with the inertia on the curve explained it all....
 

Actually any rear engined car will switch ends, especially one with swing axle rear suspension.  A low powered car takes longer to get up to speed, but once there will spin with the best of them.

My first car was a Fiat 850 Sport Coupe and I learned to take corners VERY SLOWLY in the rain.
On dry pavement you could corner pretty fast but whatever you did, lifting on the throttle was NOT an option.

And you got into a corner and found a wet patch you were certain to go off the road. So all fast driving involved scouting the road first.

The 930's were infamous because they had a ton of power that would come on suddenly and would go from power oversteer to trailing throttle oversteer and back in the wink of an eye-- there was no throttle setting that would keep the car on the road. Once at Riverside raceway I watched a 935 go off the road exactly the same way in the same spot lap after lap.

Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: JDeRyke at aol.com
To: michael at michaelshortt.com
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:13 am
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] 930 crashes



In a message dated 10/27/08 9:14:08 AM, michael at michaelshortt.com writes:
> The Karman Ghia didn't have the power to get you into trouble and the 
 faster speed combined with the inertia on the curve explained it all....
 
up. Someone back in the day described it as riding on a hammer-handle with 
he hammer-head far behind you. As long as the handle stays pointed correctly, 
hings work fine. But get the assembly a little outa line and Old Man Inertia 
akes over! Once had a friend that did OK in Real Estate so he was looking for 
 sporty car. I knew of a recently restored early 930 that I sent him to see. 
ne 5 mile ride in the thing as a passenger and he thanked the owner and 
rove straight to a Chev dealer & bought a powerglide Corvette! Alternate-engine 
placements are not for everyone.... My 2¢- J DeRyke

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