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Originally Posted by Ferraripete View Post
patently incorrect. I have owned my full eurospec boxer for over 11 years and have been to hendrick motorsports race shop and weighed the car next to a tr...my boxer was approx. 200lbs lighter. fact. bb is skinned in aluminum where the tr is steel. that has some bearing.
The TR was probably an American spec car. More than a few pounds heavier than a Euro version. The exhaust alone weighs a zillion pounds. Four cats, big honking muffler, thermocouples, pipes out the wazzoo. I had Ferrari of San Francisco yank mine in favor of something less legal and it was shipped to me in a wooden crate big enough for a homeless couple to call home.

The TR is aluminum as well; they just used steel for the roof skin and doors, for safety.

Regardless, a Boxer was more a piece of art, still with individual differences from one example to the next in the manner of the Ferraris of the past, and a TR was what I think was the first really modern car Ferrari had built, built in large numbers and mostly the same from one to the next.

JR
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