From: Hachiroku ハチロク on
Your reticence has not gone unnoticed! :)


From: Ray O on

"Hachiroku ????" <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote in message
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> Your reticence has not gone unnoticed! :)
>

I haven't posted much because there haven't been many questions.

The posts about the accelerator issue have been mostly conjecture, some of
it informed, most of it uninformed. I doubt if anything I post would sway
arguments one way or the other as most people have already made up their
minds, and it would probably get lost in the shuffle anyway.

--

Ray O
(correct punctuation to reply)


From: Hachiroku ハチロク on
On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:30:06 -0600, Ray O wrote:

>
> "Hachiroku ????" <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote in message
> news:hmhqbt$hmn$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>> Your reticence has not gone unnoticed! :)
>>
>>
> I haven't posted much because there haven't been many questions.
>
> The posts about the accelerator issue have been mostly conjecture, some of
> it informed, most of it uninformed. I doubt if anything I post would sway
> arguments one way or the other as most people have already made up their
> minds,

You're right: CTS makes crummy accelerator pedals.

BTW, I'm looking for a Lexus to test, a high-speed run. I want to see if
the brakes can override the engine, if it can be shifted into neutral at
WOT, and what happens if you select "Reverse" at 120 MPH.

Yours is getting a bit long in the tooth, isn't it?



From: Hachiroku ハチロク on
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:30:18 -0600, Ray O wrote:

>> Definitely. Next time you come to Mass we'll take in on a high-speed run
>> down the Blandford hill to Westfield on the Mass Pike. There's a
>> "Runaway Toyota" ramp there...
>>
>>
> I remember that ramp and thinking that the "hill" wasn't nearly as steep
> or as long as the ones out of the Lake Tahoe area. The other thing I
> remember about that hill was that there was often as MSP car sitting near
> the bottom.

I had a RS Radar detector back in the 80's. I was going to work in CT and
the thing went off, so I backed down to 68 (from 70, but this was the days
of the Double Nickle...)

THREE MILES down the road, on the OTHER side of 91 was a CT Trooper
shooting radar. I learned to trust that thing real fast!

When I started working in Pittsfield in '94 I still had that detector, and
on the downside of the hill (the real downside) where the Appalachian
Trail crosses over the highway one day the thing went off. I went under
the AT around the slight corner and there was a white pearl Lincoln MK
VIII sitting there. Oh, well, must be a false alarm. Two days later same
spot, same thing, white pearl MK VIII...

Three days after that, same thing...only THIS time the MK VIII had all the
taillights, backup lights and turn signals strobing and the Man IN Blue
standing next to a pulled over Nissan.

One time coming down the Blandford hill into Westfield there was an 18
wheeler, emergency lights flashing, tirangles set up according to law,
etc...and a St cop aiming the gun from over the front fender!

These guys are SNEAKY!



From: Hachiroku ハチロク on
On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:30:06 -0600, Ray O wrote:

>
> "Hachiroku ????" <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote in message
> news:hmhqbt$hmn$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>> Your reticence has not gone unnoticed! :)
>>
>>
> I haven't posted much because there haven't been many questions.
>
> The posts about the accelerator issue have been mostly conjecture, some of
> it informed, most of it uninformed. I doubt if anything I post would sway
> arguments one way or the other as most people have already made up their
> minds, and it would probably get lost in the shuffle anyway.


Damn, I was THAT CLOSE!!!

I actually had a D420 for a new screen. Now, when I do a D620 for a
screen, they usually send a back cover just in case, and with hinges
attached.

OF COURSE they did NOT include a cover for the D420...