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echo: oldcars
to: LANDON ROBINSON
from: ROY WITT
date: 1997-08-04 20:09:00
subject: Volvo

03 Aug 97 04:20, Puleeeeze Brer Landon Robinson, Dooooon't trow Re: Volvo in 
dat der Briar Patch!
 LR>> I outran (blew the doors off is more like it) a Porsch with my 77
 LR>> Ford pickup with the stock 460 in it.
 LR>
 RW>> LOL!  Did the guy in the Porsche know you were racing?
 LR>
 LR> Yes he did he was sitting there at the red light revving his engine
 LR> and kept looking over at me. When the light turned green his RPM shot
 LR> way up and I floored my gas petal and blew him away. I'm not bragging
 LR> or anything just saying that it happened. Some guys seem to equate
 LR> show power with go power when in fact their engine installed in a
 LR> lawn mower would bog down in deep grass.
 Perhaps it was a 912, the one with the VW engine.  Course it could have been 
a 924, 944 without turbo.  Both 4 bangers, so you're not really blowing much 
off the road there.  If it was a late model 911 Turbo or an older 928, you 
wouldn't have beat it..
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