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

[Henry Miller]

On June 2, 2014 10:13:59 PM CDT, Mike <meulenms at gmx.com> wrote:
>Anti-lock brakes will definitely stop you faster, and along with 
>stability control, makes for a safer vehicle. Traction control is a 
>whole different story. My wife needs to turns hers off to avoid getting
>
>stuck in deep snow, it won't allow any wheels spin, and you lose
>momentum.
>
>Mike M
>
>On 6/2/2014 10:52 PM, Charlie V wrote:
>> Just saying, Steve, bias ply tires and drum breaks were not that bad.
> I
>> sure put on a lot of (luckily) accident free miles with that type
>equipment
>> as did many other folks.  I am not convinced the anti lock breaking
>systems
>> are all they are cracked up to be either.
>>
>> Grant:  My '47 Studebaker champion with overdrive would touch a
>dollar bill
>> on a good day but it needed a good two miles of road and zero
>headwind to
>> creep it up there.  Tested it out the first day I got it on the road
>at 16
>> years old. (Me for the 16.  the car was just slightly younger.)
>>
>> Charlie V.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>>
>>>> On 6/2/2014 10:20 AM, Grant Brians wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Grant, at least you would not have been talking or texting on a
>cell
>>>> phone while driving that speed in those times.
>>>
>>> Very true, Ralph!  But on the downside, he was doing it on skinny
>bias-ply
>>> tires and drum brakes!
>>>
>>> SO
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It very much depends on which car you have. For a long time I thought traction control was great and why would anyone not want it all the time. Then I went looking for a car for my wife and found most of them as bad as you say.  

I endorse traction control on my vw, and anything with a similar system. I have no use for it elsewhere. 
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