Dan,
Great descriptions. You should write fiction. You have a colorful yet
technically accurate way of expressing yourself. I particularly admire your
"firing once to the telephone pole" phrase.
Harvey
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
a Caprice Wagon, 305 4v. Car gets 20 mpg at 75 mph unloaded, firing once to
the
> telephone pole in an overdrive so tall it will downshift for grades too
> slight to even notice otherwise. Towing, it gets 9 mpg at 60, in third,
> howling along at what must be pretty close to the torque peak through
> secondaries big enough to swallow whole flocks of small birds. There's not
> enough manifold vacuum left to keep the air conditioner doors open when
> going up hills, so the a/c does a great job of chilling the windshield
until
> you hit a downgrade.
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