Huh? Our '64 Crown gets rubber, perhaps a tune-up is in order? And remind me to take you for a little spin in our stone stock 3.23 rear geared and daily driven E body 'Cuda sometime ;o) You are right though, our "modern" '95 Concorde has been a lemon from day one. Look it up in Consumer Reports, those little "black dots" tell our story with that car. Bill & Tami Roddick 1964 Imperial Crown 4 DR HT 1972 'Cuda 340 (Tami's Toy) 1988 Cherokee Laredo 1995 Concorde ----- Original Message ----- From: <dardal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 7:47 PM Subject: Re: IML: Even at This Late Date > A couple of years back, I went to a Mopar show in San Antonio TX, only about 80 > miles south of Austin, all through interstate driving. As I was getting closer > to the place, I kept on passing chargers, cudas, and challengers, and as I was > getting closer and closer, the frequency I was passing them seemed to increase. > I recall I was cruising between 75 and 90, while all the "performance" A > bodies and B bodies were on the slow lane doing 55-60. Why? Because they had > the "performance gears" on them, and at 70 mph they would be doing 3000-3500 > rpm, so they had to slow down so they could hear each other talking. What they > mean with the term "performance" is a car that sits in the garage all week > long, and every once and a while (usually saturday) they take it to the drag > strip for a whoping 1/4 mile of WOT driving. Because these "performance" cars > are not much good for anything else, they drive their modern junk the rest of > the week, which means they have monthly payments for a cheaply built and > usually rather slow car or a roll over SUV or pickup truck. > > No thanks. I 'd rather have the speed, luxury, safety, and styling of the > Imperial, even if I can't burn rubber on the stop lights like these > "performance" cars seem capable of. > > Don't bother sharing that to your parts house clerk. Just hope one day you > encounter him driving on the highway. Just pass him and smile. > > D^2, 2x68s