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From: alpert@nanook.DEC
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Subject: Re: Big Blocks vs. Turbo Fours
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Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 18:00:52 EST
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The discussion on big-block engines vs. fours is quite interesting.
It is a classic example of the inverse relationship between the size 
of the engine in one's car and the brain in one's head. (Corvette
drivers: `inverse relationship' means that if the first thingie is bigger
then the second thingie is smaller.)

I of course drive a car with a 360cc two-cylinder 20hp engine and
have a brain the size of a planet. :-)

Of far more importance is the skill of the driver behind the wheel.  All
that is proven when the driver of a car with a large engine indulges in
infantile and dangerous `street racing' is that he has a large engine,
small brain, and lead foot.  Put them on a race track with others in
comparably equipped cars and see what happens! (Put a 'vette or Porsche
driver in a 20hp Subaru 360 and I'm sure I can drive rings around him myself!)

Who needs even 100hp...

			On Both Cylinders,
			Bob Alpert

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