<VV> Traction control

[FrankCB@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/30/04 7:24:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
rickjanet@charter.net writes:
<<SNIP>>
> Same as you Hank I used to drive around the unfortunate other cars, 
> laughing 
> merrily and gloating over the superior traction of my Corvair.
> 
> Rick Norris
> 
       Reminds me of the days long ago when my late wife Milly would drive 
behind Mustangs during our northern NJ winters waiting for them to reach a small 
upgrade.  Then when they started slipping and sliding, she would pull around 
them and gleefully pass them on the upgrade, waving to their frustrated 
drivers as she went by.
       One day when she came to pick me up at work, she stopped by a number 
of cars halted at the bottom of a rather steep hill.  She spoke to a Cadillac 
driver who warned her that the hill was too slippery for ANY car to negotiate.  
Well, that got her "back up" (as we used to say) and she told him HER car 
could make it.  At this point he told her, "Lady, if my BIG Cadillac can't make 
it, your LITTLE car certainly won't."  That was all she needed to hear and she 
proceeded to demonstrate just what her LITTLE Corvair (with studded snow 
tires) could do.  When I later heard about this I complained that she should have 
gotten him to put his $$ where his mouth was and we could have enjoyed a 
monetary victory as well as a verbal one.
       Thanks for bringing back the memories,
       Frank "long memory" Burkhard