Huh? Our '64 Crown gets rubber, perhaps a tune-up is in order?
And remind me to take you for a little spin in our stone stock 3.23 rear
geared and daily driven E body 'Cuda sometime ;o)
You are right though, our "modern" '95 Concorde has been a lemon from day
one. Look it up in Consumer Reports, those little "black dots" tell our
story with that car.
Bill & Tami Roddick
1964 Imperial Crown 4 DR HT
1972 'Cuda 340 (Tami's Toy)
1988 Cherokee Laredo
1995 Concorde
----- Original Message -----
From: <dardal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: IML: Even at This Late Date
> A couple of years back, I went to a Mopar show in San Antonio TX, only
about 80
> miles south of Austin, all through interstate driving. As I was getting
closer
> to the place, I kept on passing chargers, cudas, and challengers, and as I
was
> getting closer and closer, the frequency I was passing them seemed to
increase.
> I recall I was cruising between 75 and 90, while all the "performance" A
> bodies and B bodies were on the slow lane doing 55-60. Why? Because they
had
> the "performance gears" on them, and at 70 mph they would be doing
3000-3500
> rpm, so they had to slow down so they could hear each other talking. What
they
> mean with the term "performance" is a car that sits in the garage all week
> long, and every once and a while (usually saturday) they take it to the
drag
> strip for a whoping 1/4 mile of WOT driving. Because these "performance"
cars
> are not much good for anything else, they drive their modern junk the rest
of
> the week, which means they have monthly payments for a cheaply built and
> usually rather slow car or a roll over SUV or pickup truck.
>
> No thanks. I 'd rather have the speed, luxury, safety, and styling of the
> Imperial, even if I can't burn rubber on the stop lights like these
> "performance" cars seem capable of.
>
> Don't bother sharing that to your parts house clerk. Just hope one day
you
> encounter him driving on the highway. Just pass him and smile.
>
> D^2, 2x68s
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