The Nash Rambler (How do you get it out of 2nd gear?) :-))
> Davoud:
>> >> Isn't it amazing that they're still hung up on acceleration times
>> >> after
>> >> all these years!? [...]
> Mr. G:
>> >Amen.
>> >
>> >In my '07 Prius, I've never had a problem pulling onto a busy road with
>> >50+ MPH traffic, or merging onto an Interstate.
> Peter Granzeau:
>> Nearly every car sold has more acceleration than the driver will use. I
>> don't think I have ever actually witnessed a full-power acceleration
>> from a standing start on a public road of any car.
> Hah! You never saw my '59 Renault Dauphine on the wide-open highways of
> West Texas in the early 60's. It was awesome. A buddy of mine set out
> to clock its 0-60 time as we were traveling from San Angelo to Abilene
> to get a little breakfast. Due to some slight upgrades and maybe a bad
> spark-plug wire we were unable to reach 60 on the 90-mile trip to
> Abilene. Coming back we reached nearly 65. Elapsed time from 0-60,
> including the breakfast stop, was something close to four hours.
> Victory was assured in our attempt to set a new record for the San
> Angelo-Abilene-breakfast-San Angelo run when the Renault ran out of oil
> on the return trip. A kindly truck driver, sympathetic to two poor
> GI's, gave us a couple of quarts of something resembling oil, but we
> still managed to set a record of nearly seven hours. If the Renault had
> just had air conditioning... we would still be trying to get back from
> Abilene.
> Didn't know about the Guinness Book of World Records in those days.
>> The 2G Prius's
>> acceleration is sufficient to merge into traffic on an Interstate.
> Just thinking about driving that Renault on an Interstate constitutes a
> near-death experience.
> Davoud
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>Davoud:
>> >> Isn't it amazing that they're still hung up on acceleration times after
>> >> all these years!? [...]
>Mr. G:
>>
>> >In my '07 Prius, I've never had a problem pulling onto a busy road with
>> >50+ MPH traffic, or merging onto an Interstate.
>Peter Granzeau:
>> Nearly every car sold has more acceleration than the driver will use. I
>> don't think I have ever actually witnessed a full-power acceleration
>> from a standing start on a public road of any car.
>Hah! You never saw my '59 Renault Dauphine on the wide-open highways of
>West Texas in the early 60's. It was awesome. A buddy of mine set out
>to clock its 0-60 time as we were traveling from San Angelo to Abilene
>to get a little breakfast. Due to some slight upgrades and maybe a bad
>spark-plug wire we were unable to reach 60 on the 90-mile trip to
>Abilene. Coming back we reached nearly 65. Elapsed time from 0-60,
>including the breakfast stop, was something close to four hours.
>Victory was assured in our attempt to set a new record for the San
>Angelo-Abilene-breakfast-San Angelo run when the Renault ran out of oil
>on the return trip. A kindly truck driver, sympathetic to two poor
>GI's, gave us a couple of quarts of something resembling oil, but we
>still managed to set a record of nearly seven hours. If the Renault had
>just had air conditioning... we would still be trying to get back from
>Abilene.
Okay, I do admmit to being young once, and drag racing a 1947 Ford on a
dark secondary road, once or twice upon a time.
And my own experience with small cars and attempting to keep up with
traffic involved a 1957 Fiat 600. A thoroughly clapped-out Fiat, at
that. It used oil at a frightening rate, but that turned out to be some
kind of leak, not a mechanical problem. I assume that full out, it
might have been capable of 55, which at the time (1962) was plenty.
Anyway, I had to drive it maybe 85 miles several times between cities,
partly on an Interstate, and one day, I was on the Interstate, doing
maybe 57 or 58, trying to keep the damn thing going straight in a
crosswind, and a cop stopped me. He thought I'd been drinking, what
with all that weaving. I said no, just crosswinds and he agreed (I was
in fact stone cold sober). But yes, I had to use everything the car had
just to make it go at all.
>Didn't know about the Guinness Book of World Records in those days.
>> The 2G Prius's
>> acceleration is sufficient to merge into traffic on an Interstate.
>Just thinking about driving that Renault on an Interstate constitutes a
>near-death experience.
>Davoud
>> >> Isn't it amazing that they're still hung up on acceleration times
>> >> after
>> >> all these years!? [...]
> Mr. G:
>> >Amen.
>> >
>> >In my '07 Prius, I've never had a problem pulling onto a busy road with
>> >50+ MPH traffic, or merging onto an Interstate.
> Peter Granzeau:
>> Nearly every car sold has more acceleration than the driver will use. I
>> don't think I have ever actually witnessed a full-power acceleration
>> from a standing start on a public road of any car.
> Hah! You never saw my '59 Renault Dauphine on the wide-open highways of
> West Texas in the early 60's. It was awesome. A buddy of mine set out
> to clock its 0-60 time as we were traveling from San Angelo to Abilene
> to get a little breakfast. Due to some slight upgrades and maybe a bad
> spark-plug wire we were unable to reach 60 on the 90-mile trip to
> Abilene. Coming back we reached nearly 65. Elapsed time from 0-60,
> including the breakfast stop, was something close to four hours.
> Victory was assured in our attempt to set a new record for the San
> Angelo-Abilene-breakfast-San Angelo run when the Renault ran out of oil
> on the return trip. A kindly truck driver, sympathetic to two poor
> GI's, gave us a couple of quarts of something resembling oil, but we
> still managed to set a record of nearly seven hours. If the Renault had
> just had air conditioning... we would still be trying to get back from
> Abilene.
> Didn't know about the Guinness Book of World Records in those days.
>> The 2G Prius's
>> acceleration is sufficient to merge into traffic on an Interstate.
> Just thinking about driving that Renault on an Interstate constitutes a
> near-death experience.
> Davoud
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