Subj : Re: Cars
To   : DARYL STOUT
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Fri Jul 15 2022 06:55:26

  Daryl wrote --

>  JM>   One thing about some of these videos are people going up to 30 and 40 mph before they shift into second!  Then flooring a classic car and going close t0 80 in them.  Sheesh.
> 
>   Sounds like a great way to burn out the transmission and the engine.

  Yep.
 
>   In short, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!! Otherwise, you'll have a very expensive repair bill!!

   And you have some people of the hot rod mindset who treat an older car
like its a new off the showroom sports car.
   Way too many things to go wrong, even with a frame off restorations. 
Such as metal fatti-gue.  Fifty plus year old steel isn't generally as strong
as new steel.
   One guy learned the hard way.
   There was a vid of a guy in a hopped up '60 Comet who was showing off
and crashed into a truck, totaling the car.  The car survived 60 years until
some fool got behind the wheel...
   Joe
  
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