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- From: sharen@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Sharen A. Rund)
- Subject: Re: Ethanol blended gasoline
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.221716.14253@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Organization: Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
- References: <1992Nov17.052214.29099@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <220@mogun.UUCP> <1992Nov18.185812.15475@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 22:17:16 GMT
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- [ stuff delted throughout ]
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- >>> I don't recall ever disagreeing with you. As I recall, I specifically
- >>> excluded well-maintained classics (what you refer to as "special
- >>> interest" cars) from my suggestion.
- >
- >>Ahh, well maintained classics huh?
- >>What about a 75-81 car that has been hotrodded?
- >
- >Hmmm, I hadn't considered that. Are we talking about a car that sees
- >regular street use, or one mostly driven at races/events for hotrods?
-
- unless you're a 'trailer_queen' you drive your hotrod to the races/events
- - that's half the fun of owning them!!!
-
- >I'll grant you this: before any governing body forms legislation on
- >this subject, it will have to think long and hard about how to word
- >it so the junkers go, but the 'rods and muscle cars that owners take
- >care of are given consideration.
- >
- >
- >>> My point was that a car doesn't have to be a big-block to be
- >>> fun and fast, and that newer cars are much more likely to have
- >>> cleaner emissions than their ancestors. Oh, BTW, I have no
- >>> delusions about outrunning one of the big-block beasts
- >>> on a straightaway; that's why I specified a "winding country
- >>> road" :-).
- >
- >>Now Scott you are forgetting that my car is a hotrod not a stocker.
- >>Do you really think that I'd forget to change the suspension around
- >>a little bit? :^) :^) :^)
- >
- >Regardless, it would be a helluva lot of fun! One of the drivers on
- >the Talon mailing list posted a few messages about his opportunity to
- >do some time-trials at a local track, and making a 'Vette driver *very*
- >unhappy. It seems the Corvette couldn't hack it in the turns.
- >Say what you want about high-tech new cars, but God I love the way the
- >Laser handles!
- >
- have you seen some of the 'pro-built' street/hotrods lately? and the
- people driving them? I don't think you'd fair too well against Ray Castell
- or a few others like Jim Ewing, Ed Moss, or a few others that could
- match you on both the straight-aways and the curves
- that's how they grew up - running 'em both
-
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