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From: dsi1 on 31 Jan 2010 13:56
On 1/31/2010 7:05 AM, Hachiroku ハチロク wrote:
>
> They won't be bothering older guys driving older Toyotas for a while...

Yeah, leave us alone ya punks! And stop blocking our rear view mirrors!!!

From: aemeijers on 31 Jan 2010 18:10
clare(a)snyder.on.ca wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:02:09 -0500, Hachiroku ???? <Trueno(a)e86.GTS>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:34:19 -0500, Mike Hunter wrote:
>>
>>> It isn't only older guys that buy Toyotas. Demographics for the brand says
>>> nearly half of Toyota buyer are woman.
>> That was about 7 years ago in an 18 year old car. These guys were driving
>> some ricer and thought they would have a little 'fun' at a stop light.
>> 12 miles later at 115-125 MPH, I don't think they'll ever bother anyone
>> again...
>>
>>
>>
>
> Yea, I had somewhat the same experience when driving my '53 Coronet
> station wagon back from PEI to Ontario in '72. Guy with a Nova 350SS
> must have thought something was not quite as it appeared - he kept
> waiting for me to catch up and pas on the 20,then flooring it. I
> finally kicked the little Hemi out of overdrive and put the loud pedal
> down... He stayed behind me all the way to Montreal.
>>>

Chuckle. Yeah, for a few years I had a fleet-special 78 Fairmont wagon,
till the cheap steel in the body started rusting away. Unlike 90% of the
Fairmont wagons, it did not have the 4 or the straight 6, it had the
same 302 and tranny as the Mustang LX 5.0, which was also off the Fox
platform. Same wheelbase and suspension, too. I had the occasional kid
who thought their hot-rod or riced-out econocar would have no trouble
outrunning it. No idea what the top speed was- that was the era of 85mph
speedometers, but it was still pulling hard at that point. Probably not
as fast as the 429 full-size wagons I drove as a kid, but handled a LOT
better. That thing is the only car from my past that I really miss
(other than the 17mpg if I drove it with a light foot, of course.)

If I hit the lotto or something, I'd probably try to find a clean shell
from the southwest, and have somebody build me one just like it. I miss
RWD V-8s.

--
aem sends...
From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 31 Jan 2010 18:16
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:10:57 -0500, aemeijers wrote:

>> Yea, I had somewhat the same experience when driving my '53 Coronet
>> station wagon back from PEI to Ontario in '72. Guy with a Nova 350SS
>> must have thought something was not quite as it appeared - he kept
>> waiting for me to catch up and pas on the 20,then flooring it. I
>> finally kicked the little Hemi out of overdrive and put the loud pedal
>> down... He stayed behind me all the way to Montreal.
>>>>
>>>>
> Chuckle. Yeah, for a few years I had a fleet-special 78 Fairmont wagon,
> till the cheap steel in the body started rusting away. Unlike 90% of the
> Fairmont wagons, it did not have the 4 or the straight 6, it had the same
> 302 and tranny as the Mustang LX 5.0

LOL! I remember these! Yeah, they were hellatious!

A friend had a Monza 2+2 with the 350!
Again, the speedo only went to 85. I think I buried that in about 8
seconds, and God knows how fast we were going when I finally let off.
There's never a cop with a radar gun when you WANT one!



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