[VAC] Re: towing with vintage CARs

[Robert Gill]

Well there must be alot of shade tree mechanics in NASCAR to because that's the way they explain it too. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 10:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of VACList Subject: [VAC] Re: towing with vintage CARs Well, its wrong terminology. Backwards. Shade tree vernacular that should be abandoned. Gerald J. Harvey Barlow wrote: > > Gerald, > > I've been an old car enthusiast since I was a preteen (and still haven't > grown up or lost the interest) and among car enthusiasts, a 4.10:1 gear has > always been referred to as a lower gear/higher numerical gear.  I agree that > it is not correct from a scientific point of view but it has always been > commonly used among car people.  Maybe it originates with the comparison to > shifting down to a lower gear as in a downshift from third gear (direct in > an old 3 speed) to second gear because the effect is the same as going to a > lower rear end gear i.e. from a 3.55 to a 4.10. > > Harvey > To unsubscribe or to change to a daily Digest, please go to http://www.airstream.net/vaclist/listoffice.html If replying back to this message, please delete all the unnecessary original text from your reply. Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com