How fast is Rust? And is that in the Red group?
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen McCartney <sgam@hotmail.com>
To: gppepoy@cybertrails.com <gppepoy@cybertrails.com>
Cc: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, June 04, 2001 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: Never rains, but it pours! (Asutralian roadster sightings)
>Green (any shade) is the slowest colour you can choose.
>
>That's why we blow off MGB's so easy!
>
>Black just FEELS fast 'cause it looks so MEAN!
>(I do really love Datsun Sports roadsters in black, I have to say)
>
>Red is always faster
>
>Cheers,
>
>Steve
>(Any costs incurred as a result of advice stemming from this thread is on
>your OWN heads! 8^) )
>'68 2000 Solex: RED
>(Maybe I'll get a number plate: REDHP?)
>
>
>
>>From: Pamela Pepoy <gppepoy@cybertrails.com>
>>Reply-To: Pamela Pepoy <gppepoy@cybertrails.com>
>>To: snyler <marc@animalfirm.com>
>>CC: Stephen McCartney <sgam@hotmail.com>, robbieharrison@mindspring.com,
>>roadster List <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>>Subject: Re: Never rains, but it pours! (Asutralian roadster sightings)
>>Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 18:49:19 -0700
>>
>>OK, OK, OK.
>>You guys are confusing me. If I want a really fast roadster....what color
>>do I
>>paint it? I thought red was the fastest color and that's why there are so
>>many
>>red roadsters. Purple has some red in it. So that explains why purple is
>>fast. Now......Ron Hamilton's roadster is black. No red, no purple and
>>that
>>sucker is seeeeriously faaast! I'm confused. Could it be that the base
>>color
>>of the Ron's roadster was red and then he painted it black so it would be
a
>>sleeper? I need to know. Going to be painting mine. I want it to be fast
>>and I
>>was thinking that a bright lime green with a red interior would make a
>>definitive statement.
>>Guy
>>67.5 stroker in progress
>>Tempe, AZ
>>
>>snyler wrote:
>>
>> > Stephen McCartney wrote
>> >
>> > >Robbie,
>> > >It's obvious you haven't actually done timed 0-60mph and 1/4 mile runs
>>with
>> > >each paint job. It's a scientific fact that light travelling in the
>>red
>> > >spectrum travels further with less dissipation. This ability to "cut
>> > >through" space actually reduces your drag coefficient significantly.
>>The
>> > >results are easily measured - a red paint job should be equivalent to
a
>>10%
>> > >power increase.
>> > >
>> > >Really. ;)
>> > >
>> > >Cheers,
>> > >
>> > >Steve
>> >
>> > Because red is has long wave-length it would actually be the *slowest*
>> > of colors. Purple would be fastest! ;-)
>> >
>> > -Marc T.
>> >
>> >
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>> > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is
>>indistinguishable
>> > from lunacy"
>> >
>> > -A Sri-Lankan observing A.C. Clarke struggling with a folding chair
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