<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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