re Dauphine with 4-w disc brakes.

I'm surprised.  I shouldn't have mentioned the Dauphine since I'm not really
familiar with it, but the reason I did is the memory of a fatal accident
(early 60's).  It was late one night in France and the Dauphine passed me
going like hell in a mountainous area.  A bit later I came upon the accident
where he had apparently failed to make a curve.

Odds are it was his error but at the time, I remember the general feeling
was that the Dauphine was a wanna-be sports car and people were going to be
killed in them trying to drive like it was.  But perhaps that was wrong.

Thanks for the correction.
//Jack

Date sent:              Sun, 30 May 2004 16:27:12 +1200
From:                   Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:                Re: no VW sports cars?  Brakes!

> >That's one reason I could never call the Carmen Ghia (& Dauphine & others) a
> >sports car.  It's brakes would be fading after one hard driven circuit.
>
> Er... the Renault Dauphine had 4-wheel discs! And on a very light
> car, I'd suspect they'd stop pretty well without fading. But then,
> I've never driven one.
> --
> Andrew Grebneff