<VV> Traction control

J R Read_HML hmlinc@sbcglobal.net
Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:16:28 -0500


Hey Rick,  Just part of the learning curve.  I think we've ALL been pulled 
or pushed out of the deep stuff a time or two.

Sorry you can't make it this year.  And although I said that I can beat 
you - I did NOT mean every time!

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Later, JR
'61 Rampside Standard 4/110
'65 Monza Convertible 4/140
'66 beater Coupe - icemobile 4/140

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Loving" <ral1963@earthlink.net>
To: "'Virtualvairs'" <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 8:04 PM
Subject: RE: <VV> Traction control


>
> The only time I have ever been stuck in my vair was while ice racing my
> 64 coupe.  The lake had been covered by a good snowfall and the course
> had to be plowed out.  I was charging a sharp corner with way too much
> speed and pushed way off course.  I hit the deep snow so hard that I
> pushed a mound up and eventually drove up over it.  The car's belly pan
> was sitting on the mound and the rear tires were about an inch off the
> ice spinning in the air.
>
> I had to be pulled off of the drift by the AWD water pumper tow car. To
> add insult to injury, he bent my bumper yanking me out.
>
> Rick Loving