Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 05:03:55 -0800
Reply-To: Joseph Fortino <fortino1@EARTHLINK.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Joseph Fortino <fortino1@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject: Re: Another safety point of a Vanagon re: road monsters,
was Re: California law (smog)
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LA AND SD are both really hard places to drive a rolling brick.. little lightweight cars cut in and out
and others zip around tring to half wheel eachother in traffic.. I grew up driving in both areas
and even the bayarea. now in Vegas getting like KALFORNIA..lol T2 monster truck fest!! race me
cat and mouse.. hehe ok ok.. i'll stop.
I remember the day on i880 was doing 70 in the fast lane and someone break checked me
in my 85 and i was all over the road but almost rolled felt the rear on the bus swing way out
and was like holding onto the wheel just ridin her out.. did not roll.. knock on wood but it was
an eye opener to get new shocks/springs.. swaybars are still needed i feel.. and slow down!!
anyway i just chill and drive in the right as much as possible these day.. todays car are not
like our stone hinge bricks :) would not drive anything new except the new GTI * WINK *
BTW I watched my wife drive our 85 and i followed her, dang that lady can make that bus move
LOL.. its a 4speed.. maybe all the years she drove it helped her become a better driver i feel.
Peace all and drive safe,
Joe L.V aka * deathrace 2007 *
-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
>Sent: Feb 1, 2007 4:46 AM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Another safety point of a Vanagon re: road monsters, was Re: California law (smog)
>
>I'd actually had it on all the way down from the 14 and hadn't had any particular reason trafficwise up to that point to turn it off- the traffic really was thin. I have a difficult enough time shoehorning myself into some of these damn cars- it doesn't help you to maneuver any if your foot is cramped up or asleep, so the cruise helps some with that. Having said that, I think in the future I'll be sure to kick it off before the transition to the 5.
>Come to think of it, we wound up renting a Ford 500 last month (what an unbelievable POS that thing is- no wonder they're going down the tubes) to take my daughter to a doctor at USC and I hardly used the cruise at all, however the traffic for whatever reason was heavier then as well, all the way up and down- in fact it took us 7 hours to get home from L.A. I never in my life wanted a GPS until that evening.
>We once took the Vgon ('87 GL/auto) down to LAX to pick up my in-laws. Since its top reasonable cruising speed is about 70 I felt like a sitting duck the whole time we were in the L.A. area. I wonder how you folks that live down there deal with that day in and day out.
>
>Cya,
>Robert
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Old Volks Home
> To: Robert Fisher
> Cc: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com ; vanagon@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 10:32 PM
> Subject: Re: Another safety point of a Vanagon re: road monsters, was Re: California law (smog)
>
>
> What in heaven's name are you doing running CRUISE CONTROL on the I-405 (much less any other freeway in LA)?! Sparse traffic on the San Diego Freeway is sporadic at best, non-existant most of the time, but in all cases will come to a dead stop (or worse) any time of the day or night.
>
> That's just askin' for trouble..........
> --
> Jim Thompson (An LA Native)
> 84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
> 84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
> 73 K Ghia Coupe "Denise"
> 72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
> oldvolkshome@gmail.com
> http://www.oldvolkshome.com
> ***********************************
> On 1/31/07, Robert Fisher <refisher@mchsi.com> wrote:
> So there I was on the 405 testing the speakers, as it were, and rolling
> along in the second to left lane on cruise control when I decided the fairly
> sparse traffic was thickening up and I needed to go back to manual.
> <SNIP>
> I'm about to tap my brake to kill the cruise (this car had a
> buttload of steering wheel controls but instead of looking down and trying
> to find the right button I just decided to do it the old-fashioned way)
> Cya,
> Robert
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