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Re: Never rains, but it pours! (Asutralian roadster sightings)

To: slick1@mohaveaz.com
Subject: Re: Never rains, but it pours! (Asutralian roadster sightings)
From: "Stephen McCartney" <sgam@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 03:08:49 -0000
Rust?  REAL fast!  Isn't that how they do the famous "lightweight" bodies? 
;)


>From: "Patrick P. Castronovo" <slick1@mohaveaz.com>
>Reply-To: "Patrick P. Castronovo" <slick1@mohaveaz.com>
>To: "Stephen McCartney" <sgam@hotmail.com>, <gppepoy@cybertrails.com>
>CC: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Never rains, but it pours! (Asutralian roadster sightings)
>Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 19:10:37 -0700
>
>How fast is Rust?  And is that in the Red group?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stephen McCartney <sgam@hotmail.com>
>To: gppepoy@cybertrails.com <gppepoy@cybertrails.com>
>Cc: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>Date: Monday, June 04, 2001 7:02 PM
>Subject: Re: Never rains, but it pours! (Asutralian roadster sightings)
>
>
> >Green (any shade) is the slowest colour you can choose.
> >
> >That's why we blow off MGB's so easy!
> >
> >Black just FEELS fast 'cause it looks so MEAN!
> >(I do really love Datsun Sports roadsters in black, I have to say)
> >
> >Red is always faster
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Steve
> >(Any costs incurred as a result of advice stemming from this thread is on
> >your OWN heads! 8^)  )
> >'68 2000 Solex:  RED
> >(Maybe I'll get a number plate: REDHP?)
> >
> >
> >
> >>From: Pamela Pepoy <gppepoy@cybertrails.com>
> >>Reply-To: Pamela Pepoy <gppepoy@cybertrails.com>
> >>To: snyler <marc@animalfirm.com>
> >>CC: Stephen McCartney <sgam@hotmail.com>, robbieharrison@mindspring.com,
> >>roadster List <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> >>Subject: Re: Never rains, but it pours! (Asutralian roadster sightings)
> >>Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 18:49:19 -0700
> >>
> >>OK, OK, OK.
> >>You guys are confusing me.  If I want a really fast roadster....what 
>color
> >>do I
> >>paint it?  I thought red was the fastest color and that's why there are 
>so
> >>many
> >>red roadsters.  Purple has some red in it.  So that explains why purple 
>is
> >>fast.  Now......Ron Hamilton's roadster is black.  No red, no purple and
> >>that
> >>sucker is seeeeriously faaast!  I'm confused.  Could it be that the base
> >>color
> >>of the Ron's roadster was red and then he painted it black so it would 
>be
>a
> >>sleeper?  I need to know. Going to be painting mine.  I want it to be 
>fast
> >>and I
> >>was thinking that a bright lime green with a red interior would make a
> >>definitive statement.
> >>Guy
> >>67.5 stroker in progress
> >>Tempe, AZ
> >>
> >>snyler wrote:
> >>
> >> > Stephen McCartney wrote
> >> >
> >> > >Robbie,
> >> > >It's obvious you haven't actually done timed 0-60mph and 1/4 mile 
>runs
> >>with
> >> > >each paint job.  It's a scientific fact that light travelling in the
> >>red
> >> > >spectrum travels further with less dissipation.  This ability to 
>"cut
> >> > >through" space actually reduces your drag coefficient significantly.
> >>The
> >> > >results are easily measured - a red paint job should be equivalent 
>to
>a
> >>10%
> >> > >power increase.
> >> > >
> >> > >Really. ;)
> >> > >
> >> > >Cheers,
> >> > >
> >> > >Steve
> >> >
> >> > Because red is has long wave-length  it would actually be the 
>*slowest*
> >> > of colors.  Purple would be fastest!   ;-)
> >> >
> >> > -Marc T.
> >> >
> >> >
> >>==========================================================================
>=
> >> > =========
> >> >
> >> >                "Any sufficiently advanced technology is
> >>indistinguishable
> >> > from lunacy"
> >> >
> >> > -A Sri-Lankan observing A.C. Clarke struggling with a folding chair
> >
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