Quattro digest, Vol 1 #159 - 13 msgs

[Unka Bart]

Ola! Compadres!

>Message: 3
>Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 18:25:53 +0200
>To: "Mike Del Tergo" <mdeltergo at hotmail.com>
>From: Tom Nas <tnas at euronet.nl>
>Subject: Re: CORVETTE
>Cc: sholtby at yahoo.co.uk, quattro at audifans.com
>
>At 14:13 18-9-00 +0000, you wrote:
>
>>I don't recall any any environmental or gas mileage concerns wiping the
>>smile off the face of a certain rakish Dutch lad caught firmly in the
>>grips of a four barrel, secondaries wide open, 350 C.I. small block torque
>>induced,  Stingray wedgie!  But of course the top was down, and the sun
>>may have been in my eyes, and there may have been some sort of electrical
>>surge between his firmly planted right foot and
>>the shifter, but I thought it was you:-)
>
>Oh, yeah. The smile didn't leave my face for two weeks, and the memory will
>stay with me forever. Now imagine paying four times as much as you do for
>fuel, and still enjoying it. Kinda masochistic, eh?

(Heavy, nostalgia sigh... generated by photos at
http://users.erols.com/loborojo which show yer Kindly ol' Unka Bart, back
in the days when he had both a '66 Sting Ray and a functioning right lung.
Sure miss that Sting Ray...)

>Seriously- if I'd need to use my car for going to work, I'd buy a second
>car. One that's cheap to run, that is. As I will regrettably have to change
>jobs before long and probably won't find anything within cycling distance,
>that Polo's a cert...

Don't do me that way, Tom, ol' Buddy!  I can live just *fine* without those
painful reminders...

But on the subject of fuel milage, I averaged 12 mpg in town and 14 on the
highway.  Until, that is, I dropped from a 3.70 rear end to a 4.56
(couldn't get out of third gear in the quarter-mile with the 3.70, even
though I was turning fairly consistent 112+ trap speeds), to get ETs below
the equally consistent13.0 sec I was running.  That got me down into the
12.8 area.

Quarter-mile ET, that is.  Milage dropped to 8 in town and 10-12 on the road.

General Bullmoose (AKA GM, for all you too young to remember Li'l Abner)
said that mine was a 327 cid with 350 bhp.  Strip figures say that the good
general was about 50 bhp pessimistic.  And BTW, someone commented that the
"350 was a great motor ever since the 60's."  Pretty close, but not cigar
territory.  That was introduced as the 265 cid in Chebby's first post-WWII
V8 (in the Corvette, naturally) and has been the same basic block used in
all small-block configurations up to and including the fabled 409.

>From: "Larry Mormino" <mormino at lynxus.com>
>To: "QuattroList" <Quattro at audifans.com>
>Subject: To paint or not to paint
>Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 07:53:52 -0400
>
>I have a small dent in the right rear wheel flare and have gotten estimates
>to repair the dent by conventional and paintless methods. The convention
>method  costs $400 and the paintless $100. I have no experience with the
>paintless method; has anyone any advice/ recommendations? Larry

I've had good results with both my (now my ex-wife's) Pearl '91V8Q5 and my
Guard's Red Porker.

YMMV... (It depends on the skill of the practicioner.  Sound familiar?)

Yer Kindly ol' Unka Bart