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- Subject: Re: 100 000 miles at redline
- Message-ID: <3987.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us>
- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:20:00 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
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- -> He push started the car a few days later and drove it to the wrecking
- -> yard where he received $25 for the car ($25 was the going rate for
- -> cars that could be driven to the yard).
- ...
- -> Now, I'm a skeptic and a scientist and I wouldn't give that story
- -> much consideration if I'd heard it from someone else and I don't
- -> expect any of you to do so either. It certainly has nothing to do
- -> with carefully conducted scientific experiments and almost nothing to
- -> do with the topic of this thread.
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- Heck, one of the stereo shops around here sponsored a "brick-off" a few
- years ago. They dropped a block on the accelerator with the car in
- neutral, then timed how long until detonation. The owner of the car
- which lasted the longest got a free car stereo.
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- To make things more interesting, they drained the oil out first.
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- The winner was a Pinto station wagon, at 35 minutes. Several other
- cars (Pontiacs and Olds, mainly) came in at the 25 minute mark.
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- The store did not sponsor such an event again. It seemed most of the
- contentants simply abandoned their cars in the store's parking lot...
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