The shift lever and its throws are way too long. Aerodynamically, the Ferrari bodywork is wrong. When you're going fast and put on the brakes for a turn, you've got to get back on the gas to settle it down. There isn't any understeer. A few minutes with some tin shears to make a bigger rear spoiler and I'd have that fixed!
The steering is light, direct, and devoid of kickback. The brakes require a heavy foot on the pedal, but they're quite effective.
The rigidly mounted bucket seat ties you to the car with the efficiency of a trailer-hitch ball. The pedals are high enough and far enough to the left that one's knee gets jammed beneath the steering wheel during heel-and-toe downshifts, but get it right and it feels as if you were fending off the big guys at Le Mans where this little Ferrari came home fifth overall in Engine heat wafts up through gaps in the floor, and there's a bouquet of hot oil vapor from the tank behind the passenger's seat.
The sound is mechanical music. Whining gears, whirring chains, and crackling exhaust tips beg for more throttle. Twelve unfiltered carburetor throats roar for air at rpm; by , the "ripping canvas" shriek from the exhaust drowns out every other sound in the world. As soon as we touch back down to earth, Dan Gurney takes the Pontiac out for hot laps. It does everything all right; it's just sort of pendulous and heavy.
The progressive throttle linkage is something you have to dial into. I locked up the rear brakes cresting the hill before the Corkscrew, but otherwise the car's all right. The brakes don't fade much. Actually, if you get the tail out, you don't move your hands any more than you would in the Ferrari; you hang the stern out and just wait for the corner. The mighty Pontiac comes in after a few laps with a metallic knock in its engine and a radiator near the boiling point.
Its best lap is Our predecessors guessed that part right. Carl Huboi finds a rocker arm gone awry and fixes it while the engine cools.
It's too big and heavy for this duty, but the car has guts. The Hurst shifter and the Muncie four-speed are pure magic. The chassis feels particularly unflappable, ready to soak up the massive torque from the engine, the firm pull of the brakes, and the impressive cornering forces generated by the Michelin XWXs. For safety's sake, and to equalize the tires' contribution to performance, both cars are running on new series radials for all our tests.
The Pontiac does a respectable job of defending its honor on the skidpad as well, where it uses some bizarre wheel-camber angles to generate 0. With an incredible 6. The throttle linkage goes south at the Baylands Raceway drag strip. There is so much first-gear torque multiplication that the rear axle hops wildly, stitching a dotted black line of burned rubber into the pavement like a Singer gone berserk. We resort to second-gear starts and measure 0 to 60 in 6.
The careful reader will notice that this performance is a bit different from the twenty-year-old record. The Ferrari has won every test today.
The Pontiac has been 4. But watch this space for even better results. Who knows? Tom Wolfe was just hitting his stride at the Herald Tribune's New York magazine, and he influenced us powerfully. Rock-and-roll blared from the speakers of every test car, and we eagerly awaited each new Beatles album. Cancel Report. Create a new account. Log In.
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