<VV> Re:Traction control

[Gary Swiatowy]

Way back in the 70's while I was in college, the snow was so bad they closed
the college. Of course I had already ddriven 20 miles to get there. A friend
had an apartment a few miles away so 6 of us piled into my vair and went to
party. Just the other side of the apartment complex was the police with a
roadblock as all county roads were closed. Basically anyone coming into town
was sent back, anyone trying to get out of town were sent back. During the
course of the "emergency" I made several beer and pizza runs and we had a
great all night euchre party. The cop was really PO'd every time I pulled in
and out of the apartment complex, he would see me coming and get out of his
car, but never even tried to follow me as I zig zagged around the abandoned
cars in the middle of the street.

Gary Swiatowy

> From: FrankCB@aol.com
> Subject: Re: <VV> Traction control
>        Reminds me of the days long ago when my late wife Milly would drive
> behind Mustangs during our northern NJ winters waiting for them to reach a
small
> upgrade.  Then when they started slipping and sliding, she would pull
around
> them and gleefully pass them on the upgrade, waving to their frustrated
> drivers as she went by.
>        One day when she came to pick me up at work, she stopped by a
number
> of cars halted at the bottom of a rather steep hill.  She spoke to a
Cadillac
> driver who warned her that the hill was too slippery for ANY car to
negotiate.
> Well, that got her "back up" (as we used to say) and she told him HER car
> could make it.  At this point he told her, "Lady, if my BIG Cadillac can't
make
> it, your LITTLE car certainly won't."  That was all she needed to hear and
she
> proceeded to demonstrate just what her LITTLE Corvair (with studded snow
> tires) could do.  When I later heard about this I complained that she
should have
> gotten him to put his $$ where his mouth was and we could have enjoyed a
> monetary victory as well as a verbal one.
>        Thanks for bringing back the memories,
>        Frank "long memory" Burkhard