Even at This Late Date

["DR CHALLENGER" <drchallenger@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

some of us also own performance cars, I have 2 e bodies.


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>Subject: Re: IML: Even at This Late Date
>Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 21:47:58 -0600
>
>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.
>

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