Not Ranked
You know, it would be nice for some magazine to do a road test of these cars. However, to get a true measurement, all cars would have to be powered by the same engine, with same transmission, same rear-end gearing, with the same size wheels and brand of tires, and driven by the same guy. Then, put them all through their paces:
-on a dragstrip for acceleration times and E.T.
-on a skidpad for lateral g's
- in braking distance
- on a road course
- in a slalom
- in top speed
I think that's the only way to find out which replica truly performs the best overall. If you have guys out there with FE-series big blocks vs. 385-series big blocks vs. small blocks, you'll never get a true comparison of the cars themselves. Each of those engines would give the car a completely different performance characteristic.
Obviously, this is a pipe dream due to the expense of putting all these identical cars together, but then we'd at least have an answer to this burning question. Then, all a perspective buyer would have to do is see how the cars ranked in performance, and rate that against the accuracy of each and..... oh boy, here we go again.
Russ
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