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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
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Posted: Wed Sep 26 09:29:50 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Sep-84 05:49:28 EDT
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>> 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!