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Date:         Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:13:15 MDT
Reply-To:     Joe Fortino <biker.pride@USA.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Joe Fortino <biker.pride@USA.NET>
Subject:      Re: [Re: More Van Rollover news]
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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thats it i need new shocks, maybe springs.


van is driving like a boat and i need quickness :)
ohh and brush bumper are the ticket.


death race 2000.. hehe








David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
At 07:58 PM 4/12/2001, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
>When I see those car-chase programs on TV, mostly US-made, I have trouble
>believing the way US-designed cars wallow and crash with little or no
>provocation. partly due to awful (cheap) tires, mainly due to a combination
>of total ignorance of the driver and no dynamic ability on the car's part.


Um...the people who make the movies *like* to have lots of skidding and
such.  When Steve McQueen drove his own Mustang in _Bullitt_ they had to
detune the suspension because it made too little fuss going around corners...


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David Beierl - Providence, RI
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'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"




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