Date:         Sat, 1 Jan 2000 23:08:05 -0500
Reply-To:     "John P. Flaherty" <jflaherty@PIVOT.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "John P. Flaherty" <jflaherty@PIVOT.NET>
Subject:      Re: Best / Worst Car
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Well, I can't speak for the mid-sixties version, or one with the police
package, but my first car was a '69 Impala 350. Worst handling car I ever
owned. On a wet road it would fishtail at 20 mph or less. I remember telling
my father about this. He passed it off as teenage incompetence. (I was 19)
Then one day he had the opportunity to be behind me in a light rain.

In my hometown of Jersey City there's an S curve on Tonnelle Avenue (Rt 1/9)
where it intersects with Broadway, just South of the Holland Tunnel
approach. He watched me slide around it at about 15 mph. He was shocked.
Couldn't believe that a car with good tires could slide that easily. I
haven't driven anything that handled that badly since.

John Flaherty
Standish, ME
'84 GL

-----Original Message-----
From: Kent Christensen <lkchris@USWEST.NET>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Saturday, January 01, 2000 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: Best / Worst Car


>re:  Now that was an endorsement (Chevrolet Impala with a 350 engine)
>with some gonads ...
>
>GM buys much more advertising in Road&Track than Maserati.  Look to
>the technical correspondence and, to a lesser extent, used car
>classics sections of R&T for the only credible content.
>