<VV> Diesel sort of - humor
Louis Armer
carmerjr at mindspring.com
Sat Dec 20 23:05:16 EST 2008
Hmmm...................I heard rumors that JR frequently ice raced in
this manner !!! ;-)
FrontMan
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At 07:02 PM 12/20/2008, you wrote:
>Cute JR....
>But, yeah, that's me.... "unsafe at every speed"....
>:-)
>Lonzo
>
>
>In a message dated 12/20/2008 6:49:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>hmlinc at sbcglobal.net writes:
>
>Backing up at 80 MPH!!! And only in bad weather to boot. Wow, Lonzo... you
>
>are SOME driver.
>
>Later, JR
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <LonzoVair at aol.com>
>To: <JVHRoberts at aol.com>
>Cc: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 4:37 PM
>Subject: <VV> VW Diesel defense, sort of
>
>
> > Hey guys,
> > My 91 Jetta is a diesel... one of 935 ECOdiesels made that year. She's got
> > 283K miles on her, and still going strong. I use it as a "back-up car"
> > when I
> > need to go somewhere in bad weather or if the 64 sedan needs to sit for a
> > while, such as now as I wait for some leaf spring bolt parts.
> > The ECOdiesel has a turbo, but it doesn't have the turbo injector pump,
> > and
> > at one time it had a convertor of some sorts. It will cruise at 80 and
> > I've
> > been able to squeeze 50 MPG out of it this summer (but NOT by going
> > 80)... I
> > think I average about 42 mpg in the summer and 37 in the winter. I've
> > never
> > timed a 0-60 start, but it will get up and scoot when needed...
> > The non-turbo diesels were always slugs, though....
> > :-)
> > Later,
> > Lonzo
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 12/20/2008 5:29:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > JVHRoberts at aol.com writes:
> >
> >
> > Yeah, that was a pretty pathetic diesel. The new VW diesels are lighter
> > and
> > a BUNCH more powerful. Alas, only 4 bangers...
> >
> > In a message dated 12/20/2008 2:32:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > corvair at fnader.com writes:
> >
> > Actually I had one of the last German built diesel Rabbits which had a
> > little "tinkering" done to it... it was nearly as quick as a gas Rabbit
> > (though it did put out a nice cloud of black smoke under full throttle),
> > got 55mpg at 55mph, had awesome handling, and would cruise
> 85-90 all day
> > long. One of the best cars I ever owned.
> >
> > My parents liked it so much they bought one of the first American made
> > Rabbit Diesels... it was everything you describe... excruciatingly slow,
> > poor handling, and barely got 30mpg. One of the worst cars I've ever
> > driven. We ended up converting it to gas... and it was still nasty.
> >
> > The new TDI's are very "undiesel-like"... I wouldn't mind one at all...
> > would make an interesting Corvair transplant...
> >
> > Still prefer a Corvair though!
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> > George Jones wrote:
> >
> >>Always made me wonder why they didn't change the name to Turtle when the
> > put
> >>the diesel in it.
> >>
> >>On the other hand, the new diesels are considerably faster than the old
> >>ones. Then name could be justified.
> >>
> >>George Jones
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> >>
> >>
> >>On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:36 AM, <Richard.Gaffney at gulfstream.com>
> >>wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>The Rabbit diesel couldn't even move the Rabbit, let alone a heavier
> > car!
> >>>There was a switch in the throttle to turn off AC at full throttle so
> >>>the
> >>>car would actually move away from a stop light. Accel time
> for 0-60 was
> >>>measured by a sundial.............
> >>>
> >>>Rick Gaffney
> >>>Corsa 140/4
> >>>
> >
> >
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