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

[Stephen Offiler]

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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