Yep, you guys are a restless bunch.
So are we, but you are right. You built your cities too far apart, that's
the trouble.
Just imagine if you would compress your inhabited parts of the US and kind
of shove it to - let's say to the east.
You would benefit twofold from that:
1. Not too many 12hr trips
2. Lots of untamed wilderness out west.
Which means lots of terrain to go hiking in and to get lost. This gives
you the chance more often to apply
survival techniques.
The burned out heaps of VW busses come from driving them thar beauties with
an insensitive right foot.
If you keep in mind cylinder nr. 3 which gets the least cooling air then you
drive as tender-foot would drive.
But the new VW bus with 2.4 liter engine 5-cylinder water-cooled, that is a
totally new story.
I drive one and it changed my lifestyle.
The difference between your V8 363 cu in powerplants and our nimble
clockwork high-precision Autobahn-eaters is truly overwhelming.
That is why these big cars need drop-forged front end suspension bars.
Made for quarter-section country patrolling and drop-the-moose-over-the-cab
activities.
In regards to big engines I heard from a turkish man that he drove a
Chevy-Passenger bus in Anatolia when one of the pistons went for the happy
hunting grounds.
He stopped the bus, crawled under the thing and removed this sickly looking
excuse of a piston.
Removed the connecting rod and hammered a piece of round wood into the
cavity and drove on happily thereafter, with not much loss of power.
When we lived in Canada we had a Plymouth Custom Suburban with a 363 cu in
V8.
I know the feeling.
Slamming on the pedal and watch the engine hood lift up in front of me, I
felt like king ( shaving cream ).
Once I went through the Rockies to Vancouver with that thing when due to bad
maintenance my brake shoes hit metal.
Miss those days but heeding God's calling to relocate in Germany resulted in
becoming a Royal Ranger.
Hope this is not too long fer you and not boring,
but I had to vent my feel'ns.
Feel better now.
G�nter
OP 64
Siegen, Germany
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