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From: olds@ihlpa.UUCP (Mondeville)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: best car, worst car
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Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 15:40:58 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  6 15:40:58 1986
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> 
> **  rebate kiss line with your passage **
> 
> This seat belt thing is getting boring.  I remember with some fondness the
> discussion of best raods and worst roads in net.wheelhead a short time
> ago.  How about a discussion on car love (or lust), like ferinstance:
> 
>     If you could have your choice of any car that ever existed, what would
>     you choose?  Assume money is no object.
> 
>     And (for added spice) if hell was a place where one was destined to
>     drive around for all eternity, which car would be the most fitting
>     vehicle for the task?
> 
> My vote for the most desirable car would be a 1960 Corvette, all white with
> red interior.  Fuel injected of course.  I've never driven one of the first
> generation 'vettes but I've heard that they're nothing to write home about
> in the handling dept.  I'm sure that they, like all Corvettes, are noisy,
> uncomfortable, and leak badly in the rain.  Still, nothing else quite comes
> close to my ideal of automotive beauty as this car does.
> 
> As for my idea of hell on wheels, boring cars really, well, bore me.
> There are a lot of boredom mobiles around, but if I had to the most boring
> it would be the AMC Concord.  What can I say? It's just two tons of rolling
> yawns to this boy.  Flame on, AMC lovers.
> 
> R.M. Mottola
> Intermetrics Inc.
> Cambridge, MA.
> 
> Disclaimer: "It's only me, and if there are any real ideas in this note
> they probably got in there by mistake."
> 
> PS If anyone wants to give me the vette as a late Christmas gift, please
> throw in a lot of extra fuel injection parts.


    The best or worst car????
  I'll start with the worst. My vote for worst car(s),is ALL non-performance,
  boring,try-to-keep-me-awake-while-I'm-driving type cars which make up the 
  majority of the motoring public,and are such a pain in the A__! to 
  enthusist drivers such as myself.Examples are: chevy chevettes,all that 
  imported fuel saver things,and all those rolling death-traps with billions 
  of people on board. 


    The BEST???? 
   Very hard to say.For me it would be two.

    1) A 1974 black on black Pontiac Super-Duty Trans-Am powered by.......
       a 455 cubic-inch 345-370 horse power engine (I've forgotten the exact
       h.p. rating).  I've come close to this as I own a '76 Trans-Am
       (Sterling Silver with blue interior),powered by a Pontiac 400 with
       goodies such-as Holley intake,Crane cam,Blackjack headers,Sonic Turbos.
       .....etc.



     2) A Saturn White 1970 Buick GSX, powered by a stage II (only avaliable in
        parts) 455.(h.p. around 400+).

        To complete auto heaven??,highways and roads for high-performance 
        people like me ONLY!!!!! <<<<<<<<sounds good huh????



                                                  Eugene G. Mandeville
                                                  AT&T Bell Labs Indian Hill
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