I remember when I was young there was an ad that said, "Ever hear about the travelling salesman that put 1,000,000 miles on his Volvo?"
The guy was shown in the ad with his '66 P1800.
He's back! FOUR MILLION MILES!!!! Holy COW!
You got a P1800?
That was when Volvo's had a nice distinctive look.
He must have a hell of a paper route.
=?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?= snipped-for-privacy@e86.GTS wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@e86.GTS:
Real nice looking car!
fred schrieb:
It is a dream!
Not when I got done with it!
Someone else who owned one told me to be wary of the rear end sliding out under hard cornering, and that's exactly what happened. In trying to regain control I overcompensated, and the ass went out the other way. I was JUST GETTING CONTROL BACK and we hit a berm, sending the car onto it's roof.
You know what Volvo used to say in their ads about 'integrated rooll cages'? It's true. Me and the passenger were directly under it. I got some skinned knuckles and a small cut on the side of my head. He didn't have a scratch!
Oh, and before the accident, I *had* long hair. Lost about half of it!!
Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@e86.GTS:
Kind of like Richard Hammond's explanation of oversteer vs. under steer: There's a tree on the outside of the turn, If you have understeer, you don't make the turn and crash head on into the tree and die. If you have oversteer however, your rear end hits the tree and you die. Oversteer is better of course because you never see the tree.
I always heard it as "understeer is when the car leaves the road front end first. Oversteer is when it leaves rear first. Power determines how fast you hit the wall, and torque determines how far the wall moves after you hit it." :)
nate
Nate Nagel wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news4.newsguy.com:
And camber determines how deep the ruts you make after you bounce off the tree. Works just like a plow. Front wheel toe in dictates if you land on your roof or not only if you somehow turn forwards again. Otherwise the same happens with rear whell toe out if you're going backwards. Your springs will determine how high you will bounce into the air before it flips over and crushes the roof and your shocks whether the car will continue to bounce or just slide violently into another tree (the tree is not in doubt, however this will only happen if you haven't already landed on your roof crushing it)
I think that's called "Porscheing"...
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