[AT] The terror strikes again. - Studebaker speed response

[charlie hill]

Grant,  I used to drive trucks for a living hauling logs and dump trailers 
filled
with rock or lime or whatever.  I drove an early 70's Brockway tractor that 
would
pull an 80,000 lb load 86 mph on flat land with enough highway in front of 
me.
That wasn't much compared with a friend of mine who started driving for a 
lady
out of NJ.  He was hauling produce out of your area back to Baltimore and 
NYC
and hauling whatever back to California.  He was running a KW with a 600 hp
Cummings.  He got caught out west once loaded running 106 mph.  He showed me
the ticket.  The trooper wrote "FAST BOUND 106 mph"

Let's not even talk about the fast cars.  Remember I grew up in NASCAR and 
moonshine
country.  I never did any of that but I surely know some guys that did.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Grant Brians
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 12:20 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] The terror strikes again. - Studebaker speed response

Ralph, that is why I got all of my need for speed out when I was younger in 
my Studebaker cars.... 125mph between the farm fields where there were no 
police, houses or cross traffic and a three mile straightaway is enjoyable 
in a Gran Turismo Hawk. But I also drove MANY a time my 1953 Studebaker 
Champion Starlite Coupe at over 85mph. That may not sound impressive, but 
the flathead straight six only had 78 horsepower and the car is 18 feet 
long. I remember the look on the woman's face who I passed once on 
Interstate 5 in her brand new Volvo "sport" sedan after she had passed me 
and I just couldn't pass up the opportunity. Back then there were no 
airplanes enforcing the speedlimits and the highway patrol was barely 
patrolling.
     Back in 1979 the fellows from the Studebaker parts dealership were 
driving their 1964 pickup truck with the R3 (supercharged factory V8 304 
cubic inches)with a load of parts in it back from Los Angeles to the San 
Francisco Bay Area and averaged 105mph including the mountains. That was 
faster than I would have wanted to go, but then the traffic was light enough 
to do that sort of thing. Today California's nearly 40million people makes 
that sort of thing less safe and the drivers are not nearly as good in my 
opinion. In 1979 California had 23million people - not much more than half 
today's population. Our county had 25,000 people then and now has 58,000 or 
so!
          Grant Brians
          Hollister,California

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On 6/1/2014 12:46 AM, Mattias Kessén wrote:
> Now in a commercial for the big screen.
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> Traktor Racing Volvo Terror. Don't diss - Be a Fe…:
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> Mattias
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Pretty wild driving there Mattias. I would not want to treat my own
tractors that way since I would be the one having to fix them. I do
recall years ago, when young and foolish, that by stepping on one wheel
brake on the Cockshutt 40, on ice, you could effectively double your
forward speed. Although forward soon became sideways motion.

Ralph in Sask.
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