Date:         Tue, 4 Apr 95 9:34:56 PDT
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From:         Dave Kautz <dkautz@hpsidms1.sid.hp.com>
Subject:      Re: why so slow?

  You lucky guy, my '74 won't pull past 80 mph on level ground. 


  Dave


> please don't kill me...
> 
> as a healthy, red blooded, hormonally laden twenty year-old i had to try
> and max out my bus the other day.  got to an indicated speed of
> ninety-five {yeah- 95} mph before i decided that i really didn't want to
> pay for _another_ rebuild [and those trees didn't look too inviting
> anyway].  i know, i know, why drive any car that fast, let alone a
> bredloaf...sometimes one has to be stupid (i normally drive 60-64). so
> here's the question...why is everybody else to pleased to be going seventy??
> i had a bunch of pedal left....
> (100mph?  not for me thanks!)
> 
> 

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