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09-05-2022, 6:55pm | #21 | ||||||
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My bone stock 1915 Ford Model T. 20 hp. It would get up and go pretty good because it only weighed about 1200 pounds, but 45 mph was the fender-flapping top end.
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82 Pontiac J2000
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'74 VW Super Beetle 58hp.
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1984 Ford Escort diesel. 4 speed manual.
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1980 Rabbit diesel. Had to shut off the A/C if you got stopped on a hill. It did get 50 MPG though.
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A '59 Impala I borrowed off my Dad's used car lot with just about no compression....zero to 60 times were in the minutes.... It was embarrasing to be seen in it.
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Had one of these when I lived in the Caribbean... was a slow turd but perfect island vehicle.
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1960 Corvair, this exact same car, wasn't I the cool kid running around in a cool car............
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My 76 Vette... Chevette that is. God awful shitbox, but couldn't afford the gas in my 71 Monte Carlo big block. Damn do I ever regret that deal, worst trade ever
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Back when I owned a shop I traded a high mileage 2nd generation Expedition for a 3rd generation 4Runner with a blown engine and parts. After we put it back together the Toyota ran perfectly but was slow....
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But the 1983 Malibu V6 diesel I bought at my first duty station was worse than the Rabbit. 85hp in a heavy shitbox. I'm still convinced that GM HP is about 1/2 of actual HP. |
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Slowest vehicle I ever owned was probably my '84 Silverado with the crappy 305 c.i. engine. Gas guzzler, no power.....worst of all worlds. Still my favorite body style Silverado, though. Lesson learned, get the 350 next time.
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I asked a highway engineer once what the logic was and he told me 'safety'. I pointed out that on ramps were long for a purpose, to get up to traffic speed for a safe merge, and that pulling into a lane of 65 mph traffic at 3 mph was very dangerous. He didn't understand what I was talking about. Asian guy, and an engineer. |
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I learned to drive a stick in my then girlfriend's Chevette 4 spd, no A/C. Made the anemic 305 Silverado seem like a rocket ship in comparison.
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