> 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.
*I don't think so... Oregon started out as a remote settlement outside the
USA and was overtaken by do-gooder attitudes to secure it from the
British.. who had a claim but *spaced-out<G>
> 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 kin have the east... Take the cities away.. I got a Shelter and a
smokepole<G> ...mayby then the salmon will return<G>
> 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.
>
*Yup...
> 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.
*Someone should have told me that way-back and I'd have avoided being
stuck in Lodi again<G>
> 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.
>
5 cyl's is an odd number... *you running a odd lifestyle?
> The difference between your V8 363 cu in powerplants and our nimble
> clockwork high-precision Autobahn-eaters is truly overwhelming.
*Yah... My Chevy truck didn't cost the price of a house<G>
> That is why these big cars need drop-forged front end suspension bars.
*Thats to hang *road-kill on..... You can even cook 'em with the excess
heat from a tuned exhaust... 'Like.. Jackrabbit on the header..<G>
> 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.
*yah got to check the oil<G>
> 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.
>
*Chevy! Like Iraq! (...a rock)
> 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 ).
Try the Gas pedal... the one you slammed...... opened the hood!<G>
> Once I went through the Rockies to Vancouver with that thing when due to bad
> maintenance my brake shoes hit metal.
>
*Just tunneled right thru eh?<G>
> 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
Y'all have Harley Davidson 'cycles over there?
Op207 is a Harley Owner Group (HOG);')
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