Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbscc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbsck!cbscc!rsg From: rsg@cbscc.UUCP (Bob Garmise) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: re:my car is slower than yours Message-ID: <4256@cbscc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 08:24:09 EST Article-I.D.: cbscc.4256 Posted: Wed Dec 5 08:24:09 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 06:05:57 EST References: <19@tekig5.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 11 Let me tell you about slow! I owned, and drove (the two are not necessarily connected), a Honda Coupe for 5 (count them: 1 2 3 4 5) years! The Honda Coupes only came out in 1972 in the USofA. It had a 600 cc, air cooled, transverse mounted, engine. It was the original four-in-the-firewall model. The only two add-on options were: lighter and AM radio. I bought the stripped down version. Although the speedometer was labeled to 85, that was wishful thinking. Top speed: 65 with the wind, downhill, at 0 gravity. It did zero to 60 in 2.5 hours. But it did get 40 mpg in town and 50 mpg on the road. It had room for 4 as long as the two in the back didn't have legs or arms. Cute little car. They just don't make them like that anymore...thank goodness! ...bob garmise...at&t bell labs, columbus...