<VV> Descending a mountain (was valve seats revisited)(HUMOR)

[Daniel Monasterio]

You lead me to a better idea.... a rear installed parachute. 
Daniel

> Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 19:24:35 -0400
> From: Vairtec at optonline.net
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: <VV> Descending a mountain (was valve seats revisited)
> 
> Randy Hook wrote:
> 
> > if you don't descend  the mountain in gear, how else, exactly, are you supposed to do  it?   Please
> > don't say "brakes," as some mountains are tougher than  that.
> 
> When the CORSA convention was in Seattle in 1983 I drove there from NJ 
> in my 1962 Greenbrier.  Part of the convention was a tour up Mount 
> Rainier.   What goes up, must come down.  To control speed on the 
> downhill trek while saving brakes, engine, and transmission, my 
> girlfriend and I simply opened the two front doors.  Greenbrier doors 
> open to a full 90 degrees.  We each planted a foot on a door and held 
> them fully open.
> 
> We had to let them close every once in a while when a car came in the 
> opposite direction, but then we just propped them open again if the 
> speed rose too much.  After a while we got adept at controlling speed by 
> varying the degree to which the doors were open.
> 
> Unbeknownst to us at the time, Ken Klingaman was in the car in front of 
> us and he later explained that he was laughing to the point of tears at 
> the sight of Dumbo the Greenbrier with its giant flapping ears...
> 
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