That's excellent, and that's how it should be. Both of you are into your
cars, each has a different attraction, and you both accept that.
Gordon Glasgow
Renton, WA
www.gordon-glasgow.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Jim Cawrse
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 5:43 PM
> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Subject: Two Red cars that could not be more differant!
>
>
> For all:
> Last Sunday, a guy from work stopped by with
> his 1963 bright red Thunderbird,
> 390 V8 with the 3X 2 barrel carb option.
> And older restore job, the car still looked
> quite fine. My car and his car, both old,
> both bright red, both not 100 point cars
> by any means...but both cool. I took him for a
> ride in the roadster, down my standard country
> test road, which includes a nice deserted
> straight longer than a mile, and some nice
> S curves. I didnt want to upset him, and
> the car needs an alignment, so I didnt
> really go super fast. But, he was impressed
> when I shifted to 5th at about 80 and
> continued to accelerate significantly.
> All in all a very nice 30 minute ride.
> Then we went down the same route in
> the T-bird. Has anyone heard what
> 3 two barrels sound like when booted
> in, in an otherwise quiet, large
> American car?? Holy giant vacuum
> cleaner! What an outstanding sound,
> and brisk acceleration (but not
> actually fast, by todays standards).
> Lots of healthy gray/black smoke
> initially came out the back, until
> it got "cleaned out". Amazingly
> floaty ride, 80 was plenty fast
> enough! All in all, a good
> several hours talking about and
> riding in cars. The cool thing
> was they could not be more differant,
> but we both appreciated, and enjoyed
> what each other had.
>
> Best Regards,
> Jim Cawrse
> Chesapeake, Virginia
> 67 pushrod 2L 5spd
> 72 510 sportwagon project car
> 71 510 partswagon support car
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