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[QUOTE=Paul]I had a 1972 128 SL Coupe that almost always had a better time than any Porsche at our autocrosses, even my 1970 914.
Later I occasionally took fastest time of the day in an X 1/9....
FIAT owns Ferrari...[/QUOTE]
Yeah imagine that, lancia too. I had a 128 SL other than being geared too low and a bit underpowered it was one of my favorite cars. When I see what they sell for now on EBAY I'm shocked. I learned to drive on a 600, my dad let me and my bro solo at age seven, what a guy!! I had an X 1/9 too, my dad built race engines before he owned his own dealership and we built that 1/9. It had a triple angle valve job, shaved head, iskindarian cam ground to our specs and the biggest weber we could mount on it. You could blow right through the redline and keep revving, it never came apart. Many guys who feasted on the slow moving x 1/9's were surprised to have their ass handed to them. One dude followed me all the way to work to ask how it was powered, ahh the good ol days..
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