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Re: [Fwd: Re: Studebaker]

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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Studebaker]
From: "Jim Dincau" <jdincau@qnet.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 18:10:58 -0700
I don't know Doug why don't you ask Jim Burkdoll how it felt to go 202 in a
30 cu in unblown gas streamliner.

"it ain't where ya ben, Halsey. It's how ya did"

Jim Dincau

> 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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