RE: Re: Morning commute

["Terrence Murphy" <terryjm@teleport.com>]

Yea, those Grand Cherokees have a _huge_ V8 -
lots of torque with very low gearing, so they
are very quick below 60 mph - above 60 mph
they are quite sluggish 'tho ;)

Terry

96 Jetta GLX
95 Passat GLX

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-jettaglx@igtc.com [mailto:owner-jettaglx@igtc.com]On Behalf
> Of Talitmon@aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 3:34 PM
> To: jettaglx@igtc.com
> Subject: Re: Re: Morning commute
>
>
> Wwwweeeellllll, when I think about it, a few months back a Gray Hair'd
> man in a Jeep Grand Cherokee V8 saw me coming through traffic
> rather quickly, and at the light gunned it, I again gave no indications
> that I wanted to race, so I had already started out in 1st gear,
> and he gunned
> it, catching me off guard I couldn't catch him till I was well
> into 3rd, and
> it
> took me through 4th to finally pass him by.  Let me tell you those things
> have some guts under their hood!!!!!  I am sure if I got off the
> line like I
> was
> ready to race it would have been no problem.  I drive rather fast on the
> highway on a usual basis, and I get some idiot punks that get all pissed
> off because I just wooshed by them at 85+ mph, and they try to catch up
> and play a game, but it only lasts so long because they get
> scared that they
> will get pulled over or something.  While I drive on at those
> speeds or faster
> for 60 or miles sometimes.  It's good luck as far as tickets go.
> I grew up
> in a rural area, so I always have plenty of space to take my car
> to the limit
> as far as top speed, slalom's, the whole 9 yards.  Oh, I should say that I
> grew up on a farm, so I was a mischevious FarmBoy (No, never did anything
> naughty with farm animals!!!) so we did alot of things normal
> drivers would
> never attempt in their cars.  I haven't done anything crazy in my
> current car
> though.  So thats why I am alot less tempted into racing in the city.
> Talk to everyone later.................
>
> Talat
> 97 GLX
> Blk/Blk
>