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- From: "mike knox" <mike.knox@canrem.com>
- Subject: what does 4x4 mean?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.4171.23990@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "mike knox" <mike.knox@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: rec
- Date: 19 Dec 92 19:40:43 EST
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- In Message-ID: <1992Dec18.185118.452#nosc.mil>,
- koziarz@halibut.nosc.mil (Walter A. Koziarz) writes:
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- >>I hope this is not a stupid question, but I have been wondering exactly
- >>where the term 4x4 (four by four) came from.
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- >so -- 'A'x'B' is interpreted as: 'A'-total-wheels with 'B'-wheels-powered.
- >and as alluded to above, the designation has military origins.
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- I had wondered if that might be it, but it could have been 4-speed or
- 4-barrel or anything else with a '4' in it!
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- I'll bet a lot of people didn't know the origins of this term; Thanks!
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