A little additional info: The ITAC recommended that EIGHT ITB cars get new weights in the Great Realignment. In hindsight, maybe we should refer to it as the Mediocre Realignment.

>> ... I suspect that Volvo may have been a little optimistic with the published specifications, as was common back when the car was built. ...

GR Fallacy #1 rears its head.

Since the 142 did NOT go through the process published spec's were NOT a factor. At all. Consider for a minute though what would have happened if, say, during the period just before the GR, there were a few cheated-up examples out there winning races..?

The net result could have been that cheater 142s established - quite incorrectly - that the car was "competitive," but increases in enforcement and fear of discovery have put that car back in line where it should have been in the first place.

K