RE: Fun with a Camero

From: Bernd D. Ratsch (bernd@texas.net)
Date: Sat Sep 18 1999 - 23:04:44 EDT


Who needs Aerodynamics when ya got a tuck with Gobs-O-Horsepower....like all
of ours. ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet4.buffnet.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet4.buffnet.net]On Behalf Of Eric Kurtz
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 12:06 AM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: Fun with a Camero

Aerodynamics! We drive bricks on wheels man!!
Eric

Dester223@aol.com wrote:
>
> Well. It was fun on the highway today. I was just cruising along and
this
> guy with a nice silver (newer Camero-97??) just starts tailing me so i
goto
> the middle lane and he goes zooming by. I'm bored like hell, so i go back
to
> the "fast lane" and i'm passing cars left and right. I get pretty lucky
with
> a pass, and the camero gets stuck. I look down at the speedo and DAMN.
110
> (well, gotta account for speedo error. ( I have poor man's 3.80 gears now,
> using a 3.55 speedo gear) but. Here comes traffic again and i'm in the
far
> right lane. And guess who is right on my butt again?
> Mr. Camero.. Well.. Traffic starts to clear up after 30 seconds and i
hit
> the gas and i'm gone. He's trailing right behind me. all the way up to
109
> on the speedo. i hit 109, and the truck started to accelerate like a
girl.
> What gives? does dodge do some evil voodoo stuff to keep our trucks from
> killing cameros? I mean. From 60-100. he couldn't pull on me, but after
> that. he just zooms by me like i was driving a geo metro! What gives?
> -Dester
>
> PS. this is a hypothetical situation. it could have happened.... So i
hope
> the law can't get me from here.



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