<VV> Diesel sort of - humor

Sat Dec 20 19:02:25 EST 2008

Cute JR....
But, yeah, that's me.... "unsafe at every speed"....
:-)
Lonzo

In a message dated 12/20/2008 6:49:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
hmlinc at sbcglobal.net writes:

Backing  up at 80 MPH!!!  And only in bad weather to boot.  Wow, Lonzo... you 

are SOME driver.

Later, JR

----- Original Message -----  
From: <LonzoVair at aol.com>
To: <JVHRoberts at aol.com>
Cc:  <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 4:37  PM
Subject: <VV> VW Diesel defense, sort of

> Hey  guys,
> My 91 Jetta is a diesel... one of 935 ECOdiesels made that year.  She's got
> 283K miles on her, and still going strong. I use it as a  "back-up car" 
> when I
> need to go somewhere in bad weather or  if the 64 sedan needs to sit for a
> while,  such as now as I wait  for some leaf spring bolt parts.
> The ECOdiesel has a turbo, but it  doesn't have the turbo injector pump, 
> and
> at one time it had  a convertor of some sorts. It will cruise at 80 and 
> I've
>  been  able to squeeze 50 MPG out of it this summer (but NOT by going  
> 80)... I
> think I  average about 42 mpg in the summer and  37 in the winter. I've 
> never
> timed a 0-60  start, but it  will get up and scoot when needed...
> The non-turbo diesels were always  slugs, though....
> :-)
> Later,
>  Lonzo
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 12/20/2008  5:29:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> JVHRoberts at aol.com  writes:
>
>
> Yeah, that was a pretty pathetic diesel. The  new VW diesels are  lighter 
> and
> a BUNCH more powerful.  Alas, only 4 bangers...
>
> In  a message dated 12/20/2008  2:32:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> corvair at fnader.com  writes:
>
> Actually  I had one of the last  German  built diesel Rabbits which had a
> little  "tinkering" done  to  it... it was nearly as quick as a gas Rabbit
> (though  it  did put out  a nice cloud of black smoke under full throttle),
>  got 55mpg  at  55mph, had awesome handling, and would cruise 85-90  all day
> long.  One  of the best cars I ever  owned.
>
> My parents liked it so much  they bought  one  of the first American made
> Rabbit Diesels... it was  everything  you  describe... excruciatingly slow,
> poor handling, and   barely got 30mpg. One  of the worst cars I've ever
> driven. We  ended  up converting it to gas...  and it was still  nasty.
>
> The new TDI's  are very "undiesel-like"... I   wouldn't mind one at all...
> would make  an interesting  Corvair  transplant...
>
> Still prefer a Corvair    though!
>
> Bill
>
>
> George Jones  wrote:
>
>>Always made  me  wonder why they didn't  change the name to Turtle when the
> put
>>the  diesel in  it.
>>
>>On the other hand, the new  diesels are   considerably faster than the old
>>ones. Then name  could  be  justified.
>>
>>George    Jones
>>--------------------------------
>>Performance  Corvair   Group
>>Tidewater Corvair Club (since  1987)
>>Central Virginia   Corvair Club (since  2006)
>>Corvair Society of America  (CORSA)(since   1987)
>>'65 Monza Crown V8 Convertible
>>'66  Monza  Coupe  Custom
>>
>>
>>On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at  11:36  AM,  <Richard.Gaffney at gulfstream.com>  
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>The  Rabbit diesel  couldn't even move the Rabbit, let alone  a  heavier
> car!
>>>There was a switch in the throttle to turn  off  AC at  full throttle so 
>>>the
>>>car  would actually move away from a stop   light. Accel time for 0-60  was
>>>measured by a    sundial.............
>>>
>>>Rick   Gaffney
>>>Corsa    140/4
>>>
>
>
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