14 Jul 08 08:09, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> Bob Falfa (55 Chevy) while racing Milner (yellow duece coupe) did
 RW>> that in American Graffiti. As Milner pulls to a stop at the red
 RW>> light that Falfa ran;

 RN> I saw that movie many years later and didn't even think about drawing
 RN> a comparison.

I saw it for the first time in a Drive-in, c1977. It was like going back
in time for me.

 RN>   I suppose the mind shuts out unpleasant memories even when those
 RN> memories didn't result in the disaster they might have.  I still
 RN> shudder thinking about it.

I've been in a few like that.

 RW>> 14yo ride along: "Boy, he's fast!"

 RW>> Milner: "Yeah, but he's stupid!"

 RN> He's right.

And that is the message that everyone who saw the movie got.

 RW>> In a storm. Like we used to say back then, All go and no slow.

 RN> Once I finished "souping up" my '57 Bel Air, it took a mile to stop
 RN> from top end.

Today you can put power disc brakes on them and stop sooner. :o)

 RW>> Pontiac (or should I say; SLP) built Firebirds like they did SS
 RW>> Z28s. I hadn't owned my Z28 for very long and I ran into one of
 RW>> them. That's when I realized how much power the LS engine made
 RW>> compared to the LT engines. That Firebird was rated at the same
 RW>> 305HP as my Z28, but it didn't make that HP at the rear wheels (mine
 RW>> did). I didn't at the time, realize that I knew the guy driving it.
 RW>> He had owned a 2nd gen Z28 before and I didn't know he had traded
 RW>> up. Of course, he didn't know it was me who beat him, as I had owned
 RW>> a 95 Z28 and had totaled it a month or so before.

 RN> Did the Firebird have positraction?  I don't recall if they did or
 RN> not.

If it was an SLP car, it had everything a high performance car would need.
That wasn't just a Firebird, it was a FireHawk...the counterpart to the SS
Z28. Even my IROC has posi...can't get out of it's own way anymore, but
it's still got posi.

                R\%/itt



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