Re: 13.72 Lighning

From: HEMI@charter.net
Date: Sat Apr 10 1999 - 14:47:20 EDT


Unless I am mistaken , haven't the Ford legal eagles put the Kibash on some
of the trucks performance for production ?

I had heard somewhere , maybe here , that they have detuned the production
truck .

At 06:24 PM 4/9/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Just got my Truckin'. The Lightning did 13.718 @ 99.939mph in the Truck Of
the
>Year competition. This is bone stock, no mods. It seems like it went slower
>when C&D tested it.
>Anyhow, my point is that they admitted that the Ford *badly* beat the
>chebby(15.25@88) in *every* category but that they couldn't in a clear
>concience(???) give the ford the win over the chebby because of "production
>numbers". What a quandry they were in; on one hand you have a clear
>winner(ford) on the other hand you've got their biggest advertiser. Oh me, Oh
>my, What should we do? "I KNOW" shouted a geek in the corner "We'll call it a
>tie!"
>What a crock of shit. (Zipping up my nomex suit) I wonder if a Lightning can
>fit through my garage door?
>Dr. Pat
>
>
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