RE: Love Bug Alert (travel advisory) -Reply

[Gross Scruggs <GScruggs@wposmtp.nps.navy.mil>]

I came across a reference to the Unser/Quattro event you mentioned.  Wasn't a
Sport Quattro but a 200 sedan modified to develop some 650hp on its five small
cylinders.  Seems like the lap speed was like 207mph or close to that... don't
remember the top speed but had to have been around 230 at the end of the
straights.  Happened at Talladega circa '92.  Regards, Gross Scruggs, 87 5kTQ

>>> Anton Gaidos III <anton_gaidos_iii@firepower.com> 02/12/97 01:46pm >>>
SPEEDWEEKS!! This is on my list of places to go things to see. Forget the oil,
lets live and breathe racing for two weeks! The Daytona 500 will be pretty
boring though. Restrictor plates plus a couple other new rules for '97 make the
race one long line of cars in the draft. For those outside the U.S. I'm talking
about Winston Cup StockCar racing.
Bring back the SuperBird! That car turned laps over 200mph 27 years ago.
Today? 189mph and lots of multicar pile ups. 
 I heard that Bobby Unser once turned some pretty hot laps in a Sport
Quattro (not the Pike's Peak car) on one of our superspeed ways. Anyone know the
numbers or what track?

Anton J. Gaidos, III
PC Design
Motorola Computer Group
"The fortunate man knows how much he can safely leave to chance"

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>From: 	steveb@falcon.kla.com[SMTP:steveb@falcon.kla.com]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, February 12, 1997 12:15 PM
>To: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: 	Re: Love Bug Alert (travel advisory)
>
>> I've noticed that several listmembers are jaunting down to Florida around
>> Speedweek/Spring Break time. Due to an especially mild winter (heh, heh)
>>the
>> famed southern love bugs have appeared en masse. Small black pairs of bugs
><<<SNIP>>>
>> Preventive measures include a good coat of wax and the liberal use of Pam
>> along leading edges of your baby. This allows easy washing off of the
><<<SNIP>>>
>>  >... THIS IS WHY THE Q-LIST IS SO GREAT!
>
>Who would have known this beforehand without having someone giving us the 
>benefit of their experience!  Not only do we now know the problem, but the
>solution as well [although my wife might object to that bit about the  >leading
edge ... guess her name ...].  Even though I'm not planning to  >go to Daytona
this year, I'm tempted to cross-post your warning to the  >IBMWR (motorcycle)
list ... I've seen discussions of some folks planning a  >Bay Area => Daytona =>
Bay Area trip ...
>
>Thanks Dave!
>Steve Buchholz
>s_buchho@kla.com
>