the cars had exactly the same brand and size of tires. The porsche is about
400 pounds heavier (1600 versus 1200). The morgan has a 2.4 liter engine,
the porsche 1.6, so the morgan could accelerate much faster, but the porsche
handles much better (until the rear end breaks loose - it really doesn't do
a nice 4 wheel drift like the morgan). And, morgan had front wheel disks,
porsche had huge aluminum finned brake drums that would self-unadjust making
for a rather special driving experience from time to time. But the porche
gets 45 mpg.... (mandatory wood content - the porsche has wooden floor
boards separating your feet from the firewall - plywood to be exact, the
morgan has more wood)


"Maxprop" wrote in message
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"William Noble" wrote in message
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"a little rough" - yeah, that's about right. It is a nice handling car -
note that I said "nice" not "fast". it will easily go into and out of a
very controlled 4 wheel drift, it has adequate power (TR-3 motor in mine)
to take it to just under 120 mph flat out. However.... I went from the
morgan to a Porsche 356A - the porsche had about 1/2 the horsepower, but
much better agility in turns - one particular turn that I used to slide
through at 45 in the morgan in a beautiful drift, didn't even make the
porsche chirp the tires at 65

Sounds like a tire issue . . .

(and I couldn't go any faster and stop at the stop sign at the end of the
turn).

Or perhaps a brake issue . . .




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