<VV> Ludvigsen article

[Tony Underwood]

At 04:24 PM 11/10/2006, corvairs wrote:
>But what about only one or two passengers up front? (Much more common)  Lon



Not sure what the weight bias is with a couple of people up 
front.    In my case, with all the junk I haul around in the trunk, I 
bet mine is fairly close to 50-50 when I sit my lunk ass in the 
driver seat.    Not that I care much...


However, Mr Benzinger might be more of an authority than I.    I 
could likely take my '60 to the stone mill and ask them to weigh each 
end of it...  ;)     Seriously.    Has anybody in here ever actually 
weighed their car?


I've not weighed any Corvairs, but I did weigh my '66 Plymouth 
Satellite and mom's Chrysler Imperial Crown sedan.

The Satellite (with a trunk load of crap and a half-tank) weighed in 
at 3730 lbs.   When I got into it to drive it off the scales, the 
weight went up to 3910.    That *was* back in the '70s when I weighed 
a bit less...  :)   The scales were a slick set, digital readouts, 
accurate to within 10 lbs per 1000.    I thought the Sat was a tad 
bit heavy...  before weighing mom's Chrysler.

Mom's Imperial weighed in at 5770 lbs.   That was a big car.    It 
ate tires and brakes and power steering seals.   Not so bad on the 
tires and seals once the Chrysler dealer service manager suggested 
she get the car rolling first before cranking the wheel around to 
make turns at stoplights.

Be glad for only ~a thousand lbs on the front wheels of a 'Vair.


tony..