19 May 09 11:40, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> If I had a quick-release tow chain, I'd do it differently. :o)

 RN> A tow bar would be safer.  (-:

True, but then I'd have to wait for the semi to stop long enough to
unhook...

 RW>> Even on a good day, you can't see the mountains to the east of
 RW>> L.A..but you can see them east of San Diego. I believe they're not
 RW>> as tall as those east of L.A. too.

 RN> I've always wanted to go to Anaheim and then down to SD, where my
 RN> youngest son had boot camp in the Corps.

Boot camp in SD? There is a place called MCRD, Marine Corp Recruit Depot,
but boot camp is at Pendleton, just north of Oceanside.

 RN> Might even be able to get used to the 0 humidity I heard CA had which
 RN> is the exact opposite of the oppresive humidity we have here.

Yeah, but that gets boring after a while. You need a variety of weather to
make your day interesting. 360 days/yr of no humidity and pure sunshine
can't get any more boring. :o)

 RN> Beautiful day today as well as yesterday.  Slept with the windows
 RN> open the last two nights.  I bet it was nearly the same where you
 RN> are.  Good times.

Exactly...we did the same here. As I stepped out the door yesterday
morning, I thought to myself, "God, if we could only have days like this
for the next 180 days, that'd be great."

 RW>> I never owned one that ran. I bought a 57 and had it for about a
 RW>> week, then got rid of it.

 RN> I was lucky, then.  I went on vacation for two weeks and left my VW
 RN> at the body shop where I worked and when I returned, the painter had
 RN> painted it white.  He told me he was tired of looking at that faded
 RN> blue color it had been.

Nice guys like that are hard to find these days.

 RW>> I'm also talking about cars that weigh a lot more than the VW...we
 RW>> need to talk HP:Weight...

 RN> Okay.

 RW>> Depends on the Spyder. Some of them had 4.3L V8s and some had 5.0L
 RW>> V8s, and some of them had the Buick 3.8L V6...I used to own a 76
 RW>> Oldsmobile Starfire with the Buick V6...that had a lot of energy. I
 RW>> never cared for the Monza...

 RN> I don't remember the Monza coming from the factory with a V-8,

That's because you're thinking of Corvairs and I'm talking about the
europeon styled Monza that used to be a Vega. Buick, Olds and Pontiac also
shared that body, but only Chevrolet put a V8 in them.

 RN> but it's been a long time and we can all thank Ralph Nader for the
 RN> demise of that car line.

I'd like to thank him with a 2x4 along side his frontal lobe and a boot
where the sun doesn't shine.

 RW>> They had the same suspension as my 56, which doesn't have a tendency
 RW>> to do that. It could be that the 283 engine was spinning those tiny
 RW>> 14" tires when it lifted the weight off the inside wheel. My 56 has
 RW>> 15" wheels and modern day radial tires near as I can get to the
 RW>> factory size. 225/75-15

 RN> That could be one reason and another is the engine I put in it.  That
 RN> thing ran like a Cheetah!

I'm sure it did...

 RW>> The above was only a 525 mile trip one way, about 9 to 10 hours with
 RW>> one stop for gas.

 RN> I get tired after 300 miles.

I drove the 2400 miles to Madison, WS in less than 36hrs back in 92, when
my dad was in the intensive care there.

 RW>> It's always good to be home after a long trip like that.

 RN> I got to go deep-sea fishing with my bil and saw the Gulf Stream for
 RN> the first time.  We didn't catch what we wanted, but the half-day
 RN> trip was enjoyable and the color of the water in the Gulf Stream is
 RN> beautiful.

That's what my daughter tells me. She's a scuba diver when she's not
working. She and her hubby have a nice boat and take the kids with them.

 RN> Then he kept me up till the wee hours of the morning shooting pool.
 RN> I found that I didn't need as much rest while in Coral Gables as I
 RN> would have here. Must have been the longitude.

The humidity?

 RW>> That would remind me of Missouri and Illinois smokies during the
 RW>> 55mph speed limit...not one mile over.

 RN> I had one of the LA Smokies jump out in front of me on the Interstate
 RN> to flag me down.  That was one dumb trooper.

I'll say.

 RN> I think I may have been going 70 or higher in my '77 Monte Carlo at
 RN> that time.

When I had just turned 18, I was drag-racing another car on a one-way
street and a foot cop jumped out in front of me. He opened my passenger
door, hopped in and instructed me to drive to the station. On the way I
told him that he was lucky I had good brakes or he'd be my new hood
ornament. He wasn't very happy about that, but years later he remembered
what I had said and instead of giving me a ticket for speeding with the
65 Malibu SS, told me to slow down and take it easy.

                R\%/itt


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