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RE: Studebaker

To: dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com, land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Studebaker
From: "Lawrence E. & Cathy R. Mayfield" <lemay@hiwaay.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 14:46:57
Come on  now Doug, Tell us what you REALLy think ;). Don't hold back any...
mayf

At 02:55 PM 10/19/99 -0400, dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com wrote:
>personally, i wouldnt be caught dead racing a pinto engine at one of the
>entire worlds fastest places-what a contradiction to me, engines this puny
>are made for shopping mall parking lots on a sunday morning - come on guys,
>there are no limits out there on the salt, this is blue flame territory-
>why not go as fast as you can with the most power you can get your hands
>on. why screw around with these dinky engines when for the same cost you
>could have a chevy / ford / mopar v-8 or similar more power oriented engine
>with twice the power, christ, these things must be wound out around the
>first mile marker, and the cost to get any worthwhile power at all out of
>them must be pretty high . i think driving one of these would be just as
>exiting as driving something powered by a potato battery from a sixth grade
>science experiment , with a little added noise.
>
>doug ferguson
>black radon engineering
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