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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. >


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