Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dougSF30 who wrote (239043)	8/18/2007 6:35:49 PM
From: TGPTNDR	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Doug, Re: Yeah, the real situation is a 250hp engine that gets 20mpg vs a 200hp engine that gets 15mpg. The latter has to be priced considerably lower, hence AMD's continuing problems.> Give it up on cars. You just don't know. I'll give you an example. For a while back in the early '70s I drove a Datsun 2000. Little sports car. Known as the SRL-211U, IIRC. First gear pulled ~65 MPH. By 50 MPH I could hold any Goat (Pontiac GTO). In my second no street Goat could hold with it. Second went to over 100 where I went third. Third, I never ran out, but did see 127 and accelerating rapidly. Fourth and Fifth to go. The fastest I ever ran the thing was around 145, coming back from Rome, NY, on I 385 in a rain storm after delivering a crank shaft and head to a fellow up there, Dave Manzolini, who needed the parts to run the SCCA Championship race at Road Atlanta in another SRL-311U. This was the early 1970s. The other side of the story. In ~ 1977 there was a severe gas crunch. Couldn't get your tank filled, IIRC, unless you had the right license plate number. My, now ex wife was in a hospital, Boston, for an operation. ~300 miles from Trenton. ~10 gallon tank on that Datsun. Easy on the throttle I made it up on a tank, visited, refilled, and made it back. Over 30 MPG each way on that car. A car that would eat Goats(Lucky to get 12 MPG) alive at anything over 1/2 mile and deliver, driven right, over 30 MPG. -tgp