If you happen to be 6' 3" and 300# - the Perry D is only 550 inspired replica you could get in and out of!
I don't hate the Perry D like Danny does. I could fit in one, which makes it kind of appealing in a strange way.
That Glöckleresque thing is an abomination, though.
@Lane Anderson posted:Don't have to imagine it. It is very similar to our mountains drives, but perhaps a bit less twisty.
I think there's a sitewide underappreciation for how awesome the drives at the TdS actually are among those who haven't attended one.
The linked video is like the roads to get to the good roads.
@edsnova posted:Yep. Fighting for position on the Merritt Parkway in Fairfield County CT on a crisp December afternoon is best done in a 600hp roadster and is, indeed, the highest and best use of such a conveyance.
It's not the size (or horses) that matters.....it's how you use them!
I rallied behind an early 70s mid-engine sports car through mountain roads. It was an awful experience. God knows I'm no where near the best driver; but this experience was horrible at best. The stalling, turns at speeds that a 70s Cadillac could do with ease......
At lunch the owner of the aforementioned Italian sports car told me the car needs to have a 6-speed for this driving, not a 5-speed. I told him that almost everyone on the rally has a 4-speed. His rebuttal was that this mid engine car wasn't built for twists.
OK bud.
85HP. 4-speed VW find-a-gear shifter. 4.5" wide tires. Swing axle. Rear engine. But it obviously was the mid-engined 5-speed Italian car's fault.
A 308, mayhaps?
A driver who thinks 4000 RPM is revving it?
Unless you’re the lead dog, Kevin, the view never changes.
How to drive a Cobra on a quiet country lane. It helps if you're Thierry Boutsen.
@Stan Galat posted:I think there's a sitewide underappreciation for how awesome the drives at the TdS actually are among those who haven't attended one.
The linked video is like the roads to get to the good roads.
Tons of great roads in NC, TN, WV. Same with upstate NY. Someone once told me it was because until the mid 1900’s when they started constructing big state highways, most roads just followed the course of the old horse and buggy trails that had been there since colonization.
@Stan Galat posted:That Glöckleresque thing is an abomination, though.
As were the originals, imo.
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@DannyP posted:Just, NO.
It's a stretch limo interpretation of something??? Look how absolutely horrid the front wheel arch is.
It looks like the poor Spyder was put onto a medieval torture rack. And they didn't even have any mercy to put it out of its misery. Just stretched it and left it.
Glöckler Spyders aren't pretty, but they are small and short and gloriously LIGHT.(They were built on a tube frame, not rebodied.)
Genius.
Then Porsche copied the concept and made the wallflower into the pretty girl.
That’s probably a poor representation of them. This one is a little closer to the mark.
There was one guy doing creditable Glockler-typ cars a few years ago but he appears to have graduated to bigger and not better things.
I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree again, Ed.
I think the Runge rebodied Viper is fantastic and beautiful. Is it because it’s based on a V10 that you find it distasteful? Were the Ferrari 250 or Lamborghini Miura also distasteful with 2 more cylinders? Or is it perhaps that the car upon which this is based is domestic (and therefore bad)? I sure hope not, but it’s hard to imagine what else it might be.
It’s a gorgeous car -- in the tradition of DeTomassos, the Shelby cars, and Intermeccanica's Italia, etc.
I loved Runge’s aircooled cars (which were almost affordable when nobody knew who he was) and I love his current cars (which are well out of reach now that everybody does).
I just love cars.