Google| Subject | Re: Ideological differences between big 3 german, americans and jap trash |
| From | -hh |
| Date | 02/20/2014 16:14 (02/20/2014 07:14) |
| Message-ID | <7fb017aa-c613-4775-b9b6-42c880b3b8ed@googlegroups.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.advocacy |
| Follows | Lloyd E Parsons |
| Followups | Brake Dive, Acceleration Squat, Body Roll Works LLC (20h & 45m) > -hh |
Lloyd Parsons wrote:
Lloyd E ParsonsWell, even the 'Family Car' can have some degree of "performance" fun ... I can recall riding in the back seat of a '69 Ford Falcon station wagon as Dad drove us on a hot lap around Daytona ... yeah, this was just a few decades ago, back when the general Public was still allowed to drive up, pay $2 [IIRC] and take their own car out on the track, no questions asked.
Like a wife and kids and the 'vacation' trip. I can tell you if they are in the car on a long trip, a performance car isn't going to impress them at all!
Around we go. Got to Turn 4 and Mom (riding shotgun) asked Dad why he wasn't going up on the high banking (IIRC, 32 degrees?) and his response was that he was simply letting the car take whatever line it was comfortable with ... and it was comfortable with going no higher than around the line on the bottom. Mom asked him how fast we were going (ie, suggesting that he could go a bit faster) and his response was something like: "Honey, I've had it floored the whole time since we left the Pits; we're doing ~110mph".
Fun times.
-hh
02/07/2014-
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