On Friday 18 October 2013 14:08:34 Dave Cole did opine:
> The Road Runner, as in The Road Runner and Wile Coyote Show...
>
> It was my favorite when I was a kid in the 60's when it was new!
>
> http://looneytunes.wikia.com/wiki/The_Road_Runner_Show
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwYQsZuh2CM
>
> Most the the equipment that Coyote got to catch the Road Runner came
> from the Acme company..
>
> Wow, that cartoon looks really old now! It probably looks a lot
> "newer" on a black and white TV.
>
> :-)
>
> Dave
I may have seen one or 2 back in the day, where day is 48-50.
We had a movie theater, and I was a projectionist 2 or 3 nights a week at
13yo, but that whole 1/4 block burned to the ground thanksgiving day in 48.
Next, we had a movie tent that came to town for a summer in 49, one night a
week, setting it up in the vacant lot next to the bank and funeral parlor.
But his gear was dangerous as it wasn't well grounded, and the NEA hadn't
yet published their first book, I learned to pull the connections when
changing the carbons, and to touch only the bakelite adjusting knobs on the
projectors, and to wear rubber soled tennies. But that was only a 1 nite a
week thing, and disney was still in the Mickey phase. So I was not well
exposed to that, and by the time I was fixing tv's for a living, I was
paying way more attention to the girl in the suicide seat of my 40 ford
than to what was on the screen at the drive-in. So I probably missed some
of the classic intermission stuff.
[...]
> > ;-) WTH is the Roadrunner? I thought it was one of those birds that
> > occasionally tries to outrun you when toddling across AZ at 4500 rpms
> > in 5th.
That was assuming a normally geared car. Those two trips I made across AZ
were in a 52 Chrysler with a 331 hemi wearing a recalibrated big buick carb
& paper air cleaner, and a stick shift OD tranny in front of its 3.52 rear
end. With 8.20x15 rubber on it, that was 30 mph per thousand revs. Wide
open on flat ground in OD was 3300 rpms, effectively a 2.42/1 rear end and
it got 19 mpg doing it. Hard on tires though as not much of the rubber in
the 50's was rated for more than 75 or 80 mph. 99 got them hot, too damned
hot for rayon cordage. Neither the tranny, nor the clutch disks (I tore
the hubs out of them) I could get for the stick shifts dry clutch were
quite up for the torque the 331 made, so today there is a marked shortage
of tranny gearsets in Iowa or So-cal for that basic gearbox that was
designed for the flathead 6's the Plymouth had in the era from 33-56.
Never broke it dragging though, always just creeping along in 5 o-clock
traffic. Never did figure that out. But any chevy of the era that didn't
have the Duntov engine in it was fair game.
> >
> > That said, its gfx ain't up to the job, never was, never will, but
> > 1/10th second behind the machine is about as fast as any install I've
> > done, and the D525MW might get 1/2 sec behind, its a balance between
> > thread speeds and video, always was, always will be I suspect.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene
Cheers, Gene
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