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Great interview. Good luck on book. You have a ready buyer here, so let us know when it's available with your John Hancock, of course.
Love all the early mid-engine cars. We had an early Cooper-Alfa F1 for a while, but never re-built it. Very partial to the 1.6L-2.0L Chevron-FVA/B GT's/19's and Eric Broadly's short-wheel-base 200 series Lolas.
Still love the sports-racers, especially the McLarens. Of course. Ran our 1968 M6B (Ser.#50-16, McLaren by Peter Agg's Trojan) against the Honker (II?) at Road America in 1996. Wasn't really fair. Passed it like he was dragging a 28' parachute. Very pretty, though. Kind of purple colorish. Nice sounding motor, but not enough power; seemed like maybe 100 less than the short-track 6.4l chevy (590hp @ 7200, Kinsler F.I.) we were thrashing.
i admitted it wasn't fair. Perfectly FIA/HSR/SCCA legal, but not fair. It took all of Porsche Engineering Group GmbH and a solid cubic mile of DM to dislodge the Chevy/McLarens from pole positions and podiums in the very early seventies. And Porsche ruined the CanAm series, thereby.
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