[s-cars] Back from trip

[Tom Green]

Keith,

I assume Elijah eased to the east to Indy and Nashville as the route to 
Cookeville, and the stumbling gas was there.  I have not experienced 
any problems with Sam Walton's 93 octane here .   You passed right 
through Knoxville ( and with the construction, I am sure you are still 
swearing about it ) and were invited to break here anytime.  I was home 
on Sunday, but earlier took advantage of the deeply discounted tickets 
to fly to Missouri for Thanksgiving.
   Same for you, Elijah, if you stumbled this way, and you could have 
done that S-car sighting since my neighbor drives an S6 also.  
Otherwise, one in Crossville,  Chattanooga, and Kingsport  and two in 
Nashville are all I know of this side of Georgia, where there are 
several in northern GA and the Atlanta area, including Tom Saltino's 
pearl beauty.  The easterly route would have taken you through s-car 
country of Ohio as well.

Tom, with s-car travelogue today



On Nov 29, 2004, at 10:43 PM, Keith Maddock wrote:

>  elijahallen92 at aol.com <elijahallen92 at aol.com> wrote:
>> Hi all, well all went well on my trip to Tennessee from Michigan for
>> Thanksgiving. Unfortunately I didn't see any URS4/6's on the trip but 
>> I did see  a
>> few different Audi's. I filled up with Shell 93 gas on my way out and 
>> noticed
>> right away that the car had a bad stumble at WOT. I wasn't sure if 
>> this was
>> the gas or something else and when I stopped for gas the next time 
>> all I found
>> was a Shell station so I crossed my fingers and filled up again. The 
>> stumble
>> was  still there but still only at WOT which was very annoying when a 
>> corvette
>> wanted  to play and the car would not cooperate. On my way back up I 
>> filled up
>> at a  Citco with 93 and guess what, no more problem and all the fun 
>> power
>> when I  needed it without interruption. Moral of the story is stay 
>> away from
>> Shell gas,  at least in this part of the country.
>
> You would have seen me on I-75 soutbound Wed Night / Thurs morning, or
> northbound Sunday night.  Drove from Detroit to Gadsden Alabama. (700
> miles each way)
>
> A nice trip for me , plenty of Shell VPower as well as BP/Amoco and
> Texaco, all 93 octane,  no problems at all.
>
> A rule of thumb that has served me well on 60k+ miles of road trips is
> never get more than 1/2 tank of gas  at once.  Besides, who can drive
> more than 200 miles without having to pee/stretch/eat ?
>
> Cheers,
> Keith