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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (597)	8/10/2000 2:32:51 AM
From: WTMHouston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5698

Talk about being in or on the hot seat......holding on could be a real problem. I wonder if the DMV would issue it tags? It could probably fry the chips in a few radar guns, unless of course the radar gun software was from Microsoft, in which case it would just store the data for the next time you blew by knowing full well who were in advance based on the unique radar image generated and stored each time it saw you. Of course, the radar gun could and would never share this data with anyone else, so there could be no ticket. All's well that ends well. Troy

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (597)	8/15/2000 6:15:53 PM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5698

Wow, reminds me of the urban legend about the guy in Arizona who put the rocket booster on his Chevy and augered into a canyon wall.

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (597)	8/17/2000 2:21:54 PM
From: SI Bob	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5698

Reminds me of a friend of mine back in the Army who always talked about putting a helicopter turbine in a bike. That didn't look like him in the picture, though, although I haven't seen him for about 20 years or so. BTW, I'm back from my trip. 'Twas fun. 4500 miles in about 2 weeks, 750 of which were the day before yesterday driving from Titusville, FL to Nashville, TN. The trip computer showed an average of about 15 mpg hauling the trailer and 23 without it. However, and this is a big "however", on one tank that reported 21.6 mpg it turned out we only got 18.6 mpg when dividing miles by the amount of fuel needed to top it off. I'll drive the thing for a while without the chip to see if it's still as inaccurate, so I'll know whose ear to bend about the gross inaccuracy of the reported fuel economy. It definitely takes less throttle for any given speed anyway. I'm more suspicious of Ford on this one than the manufacturer of the aftermarket chip.

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (597)	8/21/2000 12:00:05 PM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5698

There were some pretty funny things at The Car Weekend on the Left Coast. While the racing did not have as much excitement (no overly aggressive moves by Stirling Moss since he was blacklisted for last year's fiasco), there were some great scenes. With the dot splat money all but vaporized, the bidding was reasonable. The steal of the RM auction was a 1932 "Rolls Royce." I use quotation marks since it may have been a Rolls frame and it certainly was a Rolls engine, just not the kind you'd normally think: some dude put a lot of work into shoving a 27 liter Rolls V12 aircraft engine into a 5/4 sized car & chassis. An engine like the ones that used to power the unlimited hydros, 1200 HP worth. I say steal because last year the thing which clearly has close to a $1 million and the car did not sell last year at $360k as it did not hit the reserve. This year it did sell to some lucky dude for $160 and what a great sound that sucker makes.

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (597)	8/21/2000 12:10:50 PM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Respond to of 5698

But this was clearly the steal of the show: maxturbine.com The finished product version of snowmaker.com It is probably not fair to say finished as the guys firing this helicopter powered turbine beast got a lot of attention, but did not have clear answers re registration & EPA noise levels. Their entire sales rebutal to any question was: "Well, Jay Leno bought one" All I know is that when they fired that sucker up, every dude cut across the courtyard to see WTF was going on, since there clearly was no rock star landing in a helicopter. A couple of loons in a booth had the bike on a stand and were demoing it to the testosterone deprived crowd....