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03-06-2012, 05:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Festus2
Binary numbers? Improper fractions? Whatever happened to "drafting"??
Really, we do need a vacation!
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Twenty-four days and twelve hours and seven minutes till we will be "On the road again". (Always start the trip with a little Willie on the radio.) Thanks for reminding me .... I feel better now. Hank ...................... I think I'll leave the drafting to NASCAR, besides, the co-pilot would freak out.
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03-06-2012, 06:42 AM
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Yep leave the drafting to the nascar guys oh and the citroen,2cv still puts the U in ugly as does the ds19!!!! And people thought the old Saab's were ugly HA!
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03-06-2012, 07:04 AM
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SAABDOCTOR, Howdy;
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Originally Posted by SAABDOCTOR
Yep leave the drafting to the nascar guys oh and the citroen,2cv still puts the U in ugly as does the ds19!!!! And people thought the old Saab's were ugly HA!
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Not that they were so ugly ... we just got tired of all of the 'Saab stories'.
hankaye
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03-06-2012, 07:27 AM
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As far as drafting goes it does work. When I was young dumb and full of it, I was coming home from FT Bragg one weekend and got behing a truck from my hometown. I always carried a hand held CB in the car (93 MX-6). I hollered up at him and asked if he had to stop b4 he got home. He said there was no way he was stopping til he hit the weigh station. I told him to give me a brake check if he was going to stop cause I was going to save some gas. He did not mind and I tucked up under him and I mean up under him I was close enough that I could not read his plate #. Anyway from the Pee Dee bridge on 95 to the weigh station on 26 close to Columbia SC I burnt a 1/4 tank of fuel. Not recomeding this by any means just lettting you know that it does work. Course most of you knew that.
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03-08-2012, 04:49 PM
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Myth Busters did an episode on drafting and even when following an 18-wheeler at a safe distance there is still a measurable fuel economy benefit. They tested a car, but I'd imagine it would translate to any following vehicle.
I've got pretty good reflexes, but I wouldn't trust myself to be paying 'enough' attention to follow very close for long enough to realize the benefit.
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03-09-2012, 07:02 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hankaye
Festus2, Howdy;
I thought drafting was for engineers ????
whooo-whooo chuga-chuga
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Hank,
The new Engineers now use computers to draw. Most of them have never seen a beam compass or a set of railroad curves. In fact I had one ask me what was a slip stick?
Jim W.
P.S. a Slip stick is a slide rule.
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03-09-2012, 04:20 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim W
P.S. a Slip stick is a slide rule.
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Ah yes.... ask an operator of one of those the answer to "2 times 2" and you get: "Approximately 4".....
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03-09-2012, 06:03 PM
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Jim W, Howdy;
Throw them a 'French curve' oo-la-la and see what happens...
hankaye
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03-10-2012, 09:37 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DTJ9610
And 5 out of 4 people have problems with fractions...
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60% of all statistics are made up on the fly.
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03-10-2012, 03:23 PM
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The friends we camp with, he is a truck driver and he said they call it tail suckin and most truckers hate it.
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