SHORTCUTS: COCKBURN'S CAT KEEPS COMING BACK

摘要

The innocent little Austin-Healey Sprite that became a Lenham-bodied, Ford-powered. Cosworth-boosted rocket I last month's column was my first sportscar. And so intense, in every sense, had the experience been that I was in no rush to repeat it. So in the early '70s I stayed straight for a while, with a new wife and a Kombi Capmper, substituting exploration for explosion and sating the need for speed with a Dunstall-modded Honda 750 Four as necessary. Also eschewing temptation: I turned down (read it and weep, Jesse) a Lamborghini Miura for USD11,000 and a Ferrari Daytona for under USD11,000 and a Ferrari Daytona for under USD20k. Less remorse is felt for the genuine AC Cobra MkIII 289 I tried and declined, a tyre-fouling, damper-crashing, deafening brute of a thing inferior in every way to the later Robnell replica. And most others, I'm guessing.