[Shotimes] Re: Was ? Now Abuse?

[sho2go]

OK, foot out of mouth now ;-)  that wasn't meant at anybody in particular;
everyone has his own button that gets pushed in a particular way.  If I'm
looking for a street car, it won't see the strip ever.  To me that is abuse;
no use going to the strip unless you're going to drop the clutch and power
shift.  I built Chevys in the 60s that did that and would keep going
forever.  Shoforum and these boards are full of people asking about
rebuilding trannys and so forth, these cars aren't happy doing this sort of
thing for very long.  I think its a stage of life thing; I have no problem
doing a quick redline run with someone on the freeway, but no more running
the ATX up to stall speed or slipping my foot off the clutch.
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Nunnally" <manunnal@netheaven.com>
To: "shotimes" <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] High Mileage Vs. "Remanufactured" Car
Values.....was: 94 Moonlight Blue MTX FS


> >Even if Mark's re-engined, custom painted etc. MTX had only 50K miles, I
> >wouldn't be interested in a car that got its miles 1/4 mile at a time.
>
> I didn't get a chance to run George's 3.2L at the track :)
>
> And I'm like Ron P.  I'd rather have a clean interior/exterior 100k car
that
> was maintained and *driven hard*, than a 20k clean interior/exterior that
> sits around in the garage all the time and gets 1/4 throttle driving.  I
can
> just about bet you which one will run harder.
>
> You can drive a car hard and not abuse it.  There's a difference.
>
> mark
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