Mmmmmmmmmm.... Parking garage at work with those BMWs with car alarms going
off....
(It has glass packs and a hole in the pipe before the packs! I have been
meaning to fix that... :)
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Eric wrote:
> Dan DiBiase wrote:
> >
> > After I purchased my 76 RBB Roadster, I needed a new muffler (to
> > replace the holed Ansa-type the PO had installed) so I brought it to
> > Midas/Meineke/whatever. The technician was so taken with the car
> > that after he put the new muffler on, he found a chrome tailpipe
> > that is about 2.5 inches in diameter and put that on. Talk about a
> > nice throaty sounds! Makes parallel parking a lot of fun, when you
> > hear that sound bounce off the car behind. People wonder why it
> > takes me 17 turns to get into a spot......!
> >
>
>
> 17 turns to parallel park in an MG... it MUST sound nice :-) I rarely
> have to do anything but drive straight in!
>
> As for "nice throaty sounds", come on, let's all be honest. Who hasn't
> got their favourite underpass, tunnel or canyon that they look forward
> to driving through. You know, the one that you take the 'long way'
> through to your destination just to hear the sound of your little car?
>
> I think I have at least one of each of the above and each can be
> experienced a variety of ways ("gunning" it, revving down through the
> gears, cruising at that 'optimum' burble rev, etc.) <sigh>...
>
>
> Eric
> '68MGB MkII
>
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