We're straying way off-topic here, but ....
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Originally Posted by zefarelly
... let's face it, they're not brilliant out of the box.
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Perhaps fair comment in relation to the Griffith, when looking back at results in period.
However, aside from the very public and poor Le Mans performance, it could be argued that the Grantura was a reasonably competitive tool in 1962 and 1963, at least until the Elan came along. The Mk3's fully independent suspension, relatively light weight and homologated crossflow head made it quite useful, certainly compared to, for example, the MGB.
Mark Donohue achieved a string of successes in the US in '62 and Tommy Entwistle was successful in UK club racing during the '63 to '65 period. These were cars that had a degree of factory support and were as 'stock' as any other race versions of road cars. So, I would argue that the Grantura was a modest production-based race car that was not too bad 'out of the box' in period.
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