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Then what was that cavern up there used FOR?
There was a storage compartment behind the driver's seat. Is THAT what you're talking about? (It'd hardly qualify as a "luggage compt" though...)
And, if memory serves, there were a couple small storage compartments under the rear bonnet as well. But again, HARDLY "luggage" candidates!
There was a storage compartment behind the driver's seat. Is THAT what you're talking about? (It'd hardly qualify as a "luggage compt" though...)
And, if memory serves, there were a couple small storage compartments under the rear bonnet as well. But again, HARDLY "luggage" candidates!
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I think both the the Merak and the Bora had their spare tires above the gearbox (behind the engine), didn't they? Shoot! I don't remember for sure! That was long before breakfast yesterday - and I don't remember what I had for THAT! :lol
ALRIGHT, Sam! What the heck 'you talkin' about! SPILL IT!!! :willy
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Looks like Reliant Stadium. I suspect it was the United Cerebral Palsy Classy Chassis car show. I used to work on the old school stuff. The Bora had a lot of unique features. Aircraft style Hydraulic brakes (with what seemed like gallons of green snot(Hydraulic fuid)), 2VOHC V8 with Hemi heads and cross bolted mains, the rear engine deck/ storage area, etc.
They moved pretty well for what it was. Hated the stainless roof cover tho. What a nightmare to keep clean.
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They moved pretty well for what it was. Hated the stainless roof cover tho. What a nightmare to keep clean.
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Didn't see the show - been at the Monterey Pre-Historics all weekend, crewing for an old college buddy with a '65 Porsche 911 Trans Am. Just went from memory, as I was in love with the Bora when it came out. The engine was a descendant of the great 4.5 liter V8's from the 1957 Maserati 450S which Fangio won the opening round of the 1957 FIA races in Buenos Aires - and that car was a handful to manuver on any track. :cheers
Jim Hall had a 450S in the 1959 LA Times Grand Prix for Sports Cars at Riverside that he bored out to 5.7 liters - he set the fastest time through the speed trap at the end of the 1.1 mile straight at 180.1 mph!
I think you may be correct on the spare - I'll have to look at some info when I get back home after the Historics next weekend.
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Hey Larry, I said luggage but did not specify how big. It is the rear engine compartment/engine lid. Truthfully, when the Top Gear show aired it, I paused the DVR and went and looked at the GT - there is enough space for a Roast Beef sandwich and that's it.
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YEW PINHEAD!!! There's a big diff 'twixt STORAGE SPACE and LUGGAGE SPACE!!! LUGGAGE, as I correctly stated :slap, went UP FRONT!
( 'Bet yewz the kind person who, if ya can't FIND the #44 bus, 'will take the #22 bus TWICE! :rofl:rofl:rofl)
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Since I am a hard working republican, I drive my own cars - thank you very much. But theory has it that liberals take the #11 four time to tax the system unnecessarily. If 11 was further divisible, they would find a way to tax it even more - So leave me alone you sore guesser!!!!
