[PRCo] Re: Off subject mail

[Fred Schneider]

I couldn't go anywhere if I had my original car.   My first set of  
wheels came out of the Packard factory in Detroit.   In-line eight  
cylinder engines got something line 16 miles per gallon at 25 to 40  
miles per hour in third gear, with the choke open, and the weather  
warm and the engine warm, and new plugs, and new condenser, and a new  
coil, and new wires.   Driven like a 21-year-old was want to drive  
it, the car more likely got 10 to 12 miles per gallon.

My 2005 4-cyl. 1-8 turbo Passat gets 30 to 31 mpg if I'm being  
conservative and on the open road.   Worst it does around town is mid  
20s.   And that's an automatic!    I'd still rather have a manual.

The Packard's air-conditioning was a window crank.   The Volkswagen's  
is a compressor under the hood which circulates refrigerant through  
coils.   As I get older, I like the newer scheme much better.

On Aug 2, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Ken & Tracie wrote:

> Still fun for me if it's out of the city and in one of our older cars.
> Except for the '66 Chevy truck. It is like being in a tin can  
> inside a wind
> tunnel at road speed (obviously not designed for Interstate highway  
> travel.)
> But the '59 Plymouth and (especially) the '68 Imperial are a  
> pleasure at
> highway speeds. The latter sure likes visiting gas stations, so it  
> is seldom
> driven these days.
>
> As for around town commuting, I'd rather take public transit and let
> somebody else fight the traffic for me!
>
> K.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams at adelphia.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 11:16 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Off subject mail
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>> I haven't "liked" driving a car since sometimes in the 1970s.
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>> Now I'm going to go out in the however-hot-it-is and mow my lawn  
>> because
>> there's noplace else in the schedule to do it!
>>
>> Isn't retirement wonderful?
>>
>> Ed
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of  
>> Fred
>> Schneider
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:25 PM
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> Subject: [PRCo] Off subject mail
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>> For those who wonder if the list has dried up, this is posted just to
>> create the illusion of mail.
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>> Therefore you have mail....
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>> First off I wanted to comment that there was an interesting survey in
>> this morning's local newspaper that there was a significant drop in
>> the number of Americans who actually like to drive their cars.  The
>> percentage who like driving is a number now roughly 0.10 lower than
>> it was in 1991.   The number who simply regard their cars as a means
>> to get from point a to point b increased.   And Ford and GM were
>> staring at 40 and 50 percent drops in sales this July under last
>> July.   If more and more people are no longer enamored with cars just
>> for the sake of them being cars, maybe the automakers are not
>> thinking right?????   And then there was Daimler-Chrysler suing a
>> firm for importing the Smart car into the U. S.   I see that they
>> have now decided to market the car in the U. S. themselves at perhaps
>> $15,000....   And Vespa is selling 25% more scooters this year than
>> last in the U. S.  (of course 25% times 4 = 5 ... when dealing with
>> small numbers, it really isn't a big increase.
>>
>> And I want to thank Holland for telling me that heat wave was coming
>> east.   The outside the car thermometer read 100 yesterday
>> afternoon.   At 9:30 this morning, when I left the barber shop, the
>> outside one read 88 and the inside the car one read 108 degrees.   By
>> the time I left the Waffle House some 45 minutes later, the outside
>> air was up to 92 degrees.   They're calling for 100 degrees with a
>> heat index of 108 today.   Thanks for sending it East, Jim.
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