Bug Power - Not Safe

Animal lover? Sure! Add a little garlic and herbs and I LOVE animals ;)

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On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 04:35:59 +0300, "BugThug" ran around screaming and yelling:

don't trip.....so you don't think you can handle the machine...that is a good thing...because if you are right, and you can't, you may hurt yourself or others...glad you can recognize your abilities...more should learn from that... J

Don't be a puss, now. heh heh You live ONE time. Someone will find something to criticize about whatever you do. You could have spent the day sitting on a park bench instead and someone would tell you that you were wasting away and should have been passing out soup at a homeless shelter instead. You can be a great Catholic and someone will say you should be a Baptist or somtehing instead Give yourself a break. If you're honest with yourself and others and try to be a good person then you're doing great. You're the one that has to live with your actions. Was driving faster than your car should go and living be something to be worried about? I hope not. Here's my advice: Put some air shocks and truck tires on that puppy, trim the fenders a little bit, and the next time you're driving down the road look just a little harder for one of those really rough looking side-roads. When you see it, stop. Back up. Then take that side road. Yeah, that ROUGH-looking side-road. I'll bet your car can make it through it all, and I'll bet you'll have a BLAST being a part of it. Plus, take pictures. It's fun. ;-) Ask me how I know.

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 04:35:59 +0300, "BugThug" left Mt Vesuvius in a state of jealous awe as he began spewing from the mouth thusly:

On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 01:48:07 GMT, "KWW" scribbled this interesting note:

PETA???

(People for the Eating of Tasty Animals!:~)

-- John Willis

.......................You're experience was with binge drinking at several bars (clubbing?) and then driving home too fast while you were severely impaired. If you think that slowing down will make it OK to drive after getting drunk, think again. If you hurt someone (or just yourself) on the road, it'll most likely be your drinking and not your car or how fast you drove it that's at fault. Call a friend to drive you home or do like me and drink at home in the first place. After the wife and kids have gone to bed, nobody tries to bother me here and I'm not endangering anyone else either.

I would tend to agree, they aren't really built for speed. I have a new stock 1600 in my Super and I think it's fine for driving around. My daily driver which is not an ACVW is better suited for the modern world (ABS, more power etc.) but the Beetle is a relaxing car to drive, especially on nice trips in country settings!

I've taken my 74 up to 115mph, sock drums all around. That's just stupid. I tested the car's stopping ability by performing a "panic braking" test, try to bring it to full stop from 100mph in the shortest distance possible.

It never stopped.

Man it opened my eyes.. it NEVER stopped! The brake shoe linings overheated and developed a "glazed" surface, and no matter how much I pushed the pedal, the car would not stop. Even at 10mph remaining speed, I could not bring the car to a stop anymore. How crazy is that? I drove the last 5 miles home VEEEERY carefully. The brakes started working a little after they cooled down, but I seem to remember it took days to get most of the braking power back. Scary shit.

That was 10 years ago, now both my bugs have disc brakes in the front, and I'd like to do the same to my bus. I'm not driving adrum-braked beetle (fast) again. I don't recommend it to anyone.

Jan

Nope. Actually I only had one drink because my stomach was upset. There were times where i got drunk but i got a taxi or called a friend. So dont worry about that ok?

BugThug

................You said that you'd been "clubbing" until 4am and that you were "pumped up" while driving home in what you described as an unsafe manner. Now that you've explained that it wasn't what it sounded like, I won't worry.

...........take care

Sounds like someone wanting to strart another endless thread without any usefull information. First: If you want to live long enough to see your children grow up, know your limits no matter what you drive or how fast it can go. Next: If you want to live long enough to see your children's children grow up, do not trust the reflexes and reactions of the others on the road. I drive for other idiots everyday because I don't trust my life to someone driving 33 mph past the trust of his own ability or his car's ability to stop or go around a corner. Do not drive beyond your known abilities nor get education beyond your comprehention (unless you plan on runnng for public office).

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I've been fixing up my son's '92 Civic (A/C Automatic) for the past few weeks since we recovered after it was stolen (long story, may or may not have been stolen, but, no matter what happened to it, it was gone and now we now have it back). It is very different driving 42 miles to work every day in a disk-braked car with seatbelts that will actually hold you in the seat should an accident occur. Heck, after doctoring the car a bit I've even got the gas mileage up to the mid 30s (driving 75 to 80). My bug can do better, but only if I hold it down to the 50-55 mph range. I actually can get to work in 10 less minutes while I have this car....

On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 14:36:22 +0100, Clare scribbled this interesting note:

Have you heard of Satire? Irony? Humor in general? Have you met Kirk? Do you have a feel for his off-base but interesting sense of humor?

BTW, he is still correct. 93mph is not all that fast.

-- John Willis

"...(unless you plan on runnng for public office). .. "

Thanks John. Yes, sorry Clare, I was being a bit humorous. If I could not laugh at life I would not have continued with it long ago. I HAVE done more than my share of risky things in automobiles myself over the years, but at least I always made it a point to never take risks when I had a passenger, and never take risks when I was in an area with other traffic. Of course, now that I have a bunch of responsibilities, so the only (driving) risks I tend to take are the ones involved with driving to/from work every day on Dallas, TX expressways (in a '63 Beetle). It makes "straightening out the corners", "4-wheel drifts", "handbrake steering", etc seem quite sedate sometimes... especially when one is passed on the shoulder and then cut off with a foot to spare just because some %$^*& wants to get to his destination

I've only had a bug up to 93 mph that I can recall. I didn't have trouble stopping, but it was not its best demonstration of stopping (or speed) since this was on a fairly flat, pot hole-riddled country road in N.E. Ohio and the car was a '67 with a 1500cc single-port engine.