<VV> Descending a mountain (was valve seats revisited)(HUMOR)

[shortle]

So out of curiosity, how am I supposed to drive up and down some of the real mountains I encounter at times (to keep my valve seats in)?
Timothy Shortle in Durango Colorado 81301



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>From: Daniel Monasterio <dmonasterio at hotmail.com>
>Sent: May 7, 2012 6:34 PM
>To: vairtec at optonline.net, VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>Subject: Re: <VV> Descending a mountain (was valve seats revisited)(HUMOR)
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>
>You lead me to a better idea.... a rear installed parachute. 
>Daniel
>
>> Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 19:24:35 -0400
>> From: Vairtec at optonline.net
>> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>> Subject: <VV> Descending a mountain (was valve seats revisited)
>> 
>> Randy Hook wrote:
>> 
>> > if you don't descend  the mountain in gear, how else, exactly, are you supposed to do  it?   Please
>> > don't say "brakes," as some mountains are tougher than  that.
>> 
>> When the CORSA convention was in Seattle in 1983 I drove there from NJ 
>> in my 1962 Greenbrier.  Part of the convention was a tour up Mount 
>> Rainier.   What goes up, must come down.  To control speed on the 
>> downhill trek while saving brakes, engine, and transmission, my 
>> girlfriend and I simply opened the two front doors.  Greenbrier doors 
>> open to a full 90 degrees.  We each planted a foot on a door and held 
>> them fully open.
>> 
>> We had to let them close every once in a while when a car came in the 
>> opposite direction, but then we just propped them open again if the 
>> speed rose too much.  After a while we got adept at controlling speed by 
>> varying the degree to which the doors were open.
>> 
>> Unbeknownst to us at the time, Ken Klingaman was in the car in front of 
>> us and he later explained that he was laughing to the point of tears at 
>> the sight of Dumbo the Greenbrier with its giant flapping ears...
>> 
>> 
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