11-11-2002, 07:41 PM
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Here is a quote from SPORTS CAR GRAPHIC Nov. 1965 issue:
"Once upon a time. Aston Martin made a big thing out of going from zero to 100 and hack to zero in less than 30 seconds. Ken Miles took one of the street 427 machines out and did zero to 100 to zero in 13.2 seconds. This was done on concrete. On asphalt things get a bit slicker. Due to wheel spin with the street tires (Goodyear Blue Dots), and the fact that the straight at Riverside had been used for a big drag meet wherein several cars had grunched on the line, the best we could get with the street machine was 110 mph in 13.2 seconds through the quarter. It was the first street machine we'd ever driven that would keep the tires lit up for the full quarter in every gear. The race car, with its "blueprinted" engine and huge rear tires, got a full second off of that, blasting through the trap at 6500 in third gear. "
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