Seems like everyone has a SUV in Colorado... and they are usually the first
in the ditch... morons! My roadster was the best thing I have ever
driven in the snow out here! I had bald tires, driving up NORAD's windy
icy road in '91... not a problem at all, even when the traffic had stopped
on the way up.... Keep your SUV's, I got my roadster!
Eric
'68 2000
'67 1600
'68 1600
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> From: Dan Neff[SMTP:neffster@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 7:58 AM
> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: SUV's and Mt. Shasta meet
>
> Tue, 16 Mar 1999 Ronnie Day <rday@cyberramp.net> wrote:
> >For the All Datsun Meet there will be a tour on Friday AM with a
> >Gymkana that afternoon. Last year the gimmick was to shoot an empty
> >pop can off the top of a pylon with a water cannon.
>
> Well, The SUV Problem in Colorado is rampant as well. I always
> get a charge out of icy road conditions:finding the highest
> percentage of vehicles in the ditch are SUV's. Mo' mass, same
> braking surface area's. DUH.
> Actually, I've found the Roadster to be a bit 'stimulating' on
> ice -- good braking traction, but man, you *twitch* that gas pedal..
> ...yet I still have zipped up steep icy hills past SUV's that were stuck
> spinning all over...
>
> And still on the SUV thread mind you: what caught my eye, Ronnie,
> was this water cannon concept. Now how exactly is it mounted on a
> Roadster? Can it be aimed and fired while driving? Or do you need
> someone riding 'shotgun'? Reminds me of the time I was trying to
> figure out how to install turret-mounted paintball guns on my
> Goldwing fairing... :)
>
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> Dan Neff '69 2000
> neffster@hotmail.com
> Colorado Springs, Co
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