Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2h.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hou2h!an From: an@hou2h.UUCP (Flash) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: "0-55 in 2.6" and other old wives' tales Message-ID: <644@hou2h.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 09:29:50 EDT Article-I.D.: hou2h.644 Posted: Wed Sep 26 09:29:50 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Sep-84 05:49:28 EDT References: <1606@zehntel.UUCP> Organization: The Driving School Lines: 20 - >> From: some big-block small-brained motorhead: >> ... one could go to any Chevy house in the USA and buy a 1965 Corvette >> with a big block ... [AND STOP THE EARTH'S ROTATION!] > From: Jack Hagerty @ Zehntel, ...!ihnp4!zehntel!jackh > I love it when all of you big block motorheads quote performance figures > from memories that get ever more rosy with time ... [Proceeds to quote > '65 R&T and C&D, which shows 65 Vette to be a fine BOAT ANCHOR.] I think motorheads who are convicted of telling tall tales should be condemned to sucking hydraulic lifters! Au "Hey, your bearing just lost all its balls!" PS. To throw a monkey wrench into the works, my 10.84 "Cycle" shows that the Yamaha Venture, a full-boat luxury old-fart everything-but-the- electric-tampon-remover *TOURING* bike, is capable of 0-60 in 3.92 seconds! Anybody got a '65 Vette? I need a new boat anchor!