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Re: Highway driving

To: Flinthoof Ponypal <Flinters@picarefy.com>
Subject: Re: Highway driving
From: Vic Whitmore <vicwhit@home.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 16:08:02 -0400
You are bad...real baaaaad!

Flinthoof Ponypal wrote:

> When I pulled up to a light and a car that had been tailgating me for a
> long time would pull alongside the truck (driver's side), I would press the
> button with the truck running.  That would lean out the mixture a ton
> almost to the point that the truck would stall.  I'd do that for 10 seconds
> or so, then release it.  The onboard computer system would try to
> compensate by enriching the mixture all at once and it would blow out the
> foulest, blackest, nasty smoke cloud that lingered low to the ground and
> would envelop the car next to me.  If it was a convertible, all the better.
>  :)  WHOOSH!

Vic Whitmore
76 Spitfire
Thornhill, Ontario

http://www.vicwhit.com

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