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- From: looper@cco.caltech.edu (Mark D. Looper)
- Newsgroups: alt.autos.rod-n-custom
- Subject: Re: Pontiac GTO vs. Ferrari GTO
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 22:09:11 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- paraska@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Paraska) writes:
-
- >Omoligatto (sp?) is the Italian word for Homologation (sp?), which roughly
- >means something like "You have to make and sell _X_ of these to race it".
- >_X_ was something like 500 for NASCAR in the 60's.
-
- If I am not mistaken, the Italian word is "omologato"; you got the English
- spelling right. There was a glorious article a couple of years back in,
- I think, _Car_and_Driver_ on "The Ten Best Muscle Cars" by a "mercenary"
- in the HP wars of the '60's; among others, it talked about some of the cars
- that hit the mass market only because of '60's NASCAR homologation rules--the
- 427 Hemi intermediates top his list, and I don't think I'm betraying my Chevy
- roots by agreeing with him.
-
- --Mark Looper
- (Fat ol' smallblock '70 Caprice, vaporware '64 Chevelle)
-