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

Tue Jun 3 05:54:37 PDT 2014

All the new technology available on the new models are great for an old 
timer who still knows how to drive in bad weather.
    However, after this stuff gets to be 10 years old, keeping it 
working is a constant nightmare.   I don't have an antilock brake system 
on any of my vehicles that works.  I have spent thousands of dollars to 
replace systems and after 6 months to a year, the light is back on the 
dash.  I just gave up and put a piece of tape over the light.!!

Personally I am sick to death of these disposable cars and trucks.

Cecil in OKla

On 6/3/2014 7:44 AM, Stephen Offiler wrote:
> Yeah, that'll work, Charlie!  And if you want to find out what modern tires
> and suspension can do, try your test on a curvy road!
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 8:36 AM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> If you want to find out what traction control can do, get ahold of
>> someone's late model Corvette, stand up on the gas pedal and
>> hang on.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stephen Offiler
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 8:23 AM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: Re: [AT] The terror strikes again. - Studebaker speed response
>>
>> I just bought a used '13 VW Jetta Sportwagen and it's my first car with
>> traction control.  I got it in early February of this year and I had ample
>> opportunity to drive it on snow and ice covered roads while the car was
>> still unfamiliar to me.  We had some days in February that were so cold
>> (Ralph kind of cold, negative degrees Fahrenheit) that salt cannot melt the
>> ice, so I had a few rides to work that were literally on ice-COVERED roads,
>> not just a phrase.
>>
>> I was AMAZED at what the traction and stability control can do.  I clearly
>> wasn't out there driving like a moron, but we have lots of hills and curves
>> where I live, and it felt like I was driving an all-wheel-drive vehicle.
>>
>> Tires, suspension, and electronic aids today are orders of magnitude beyond
>> those bias-ply tires on that Studebaker.  Sorry Charlie V but it's just a
>> fact.
>>
>> SO
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:54 AM, Henry Miller <hank at millerfarm.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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