[AT] The terror strikes again. - Studebaker speed response
Cecil R Bearden
crbearden at copper.net
Tue Jun 3 06:30:17 PDT 2014
I keep Harbor freight in business... At least 10 rolls every time I go
in there....
Cecil in oKla
On 6/3/2014 8:15 AM, R Fink Sr wrote:
> Cecil did you not know that is why they uped production of black
> electric tape
> R Fink
> PA
>
>
> On 06/03/14, Cecil R Bearden<crbearden at copper.net> wrote:
>
> 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
> <[1]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
> <[2]hank at millerfarm.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On June 2, 2014 10:13:59 PM CDT, Mike <[3]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
> <[4]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 <[5]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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