Steve
I know my gas mileage for two reasons. One is that with petrol in my blood
I just HAVE to know everything about my car. The other reason is so I can
p... off those smart A's who say "Oh a V8, that must really go through the
gas". I can then point out that my highly tuned manual V8 gets about the as
good a mileage as their crappy slush-box six cylinder. This worked
particularly well with my mother in law who is obsessed with fuel mileage.
So if I could modify your fathers axiom to "Show me a person who frets about
gas mileage......"
I recall the first fuel shortage of the 1970's. Large numbers of people
here were getting out of big comfortable V8s into cramped 4 cylinder cars.
They lost huge amounts on their trade-ins, and found they never made up the
loss on fuel mileage.
Cheers
Vic Hughes
1963 S3, 1984 Brock Commodore, 1991 MX5
Steve Laifman wrote:
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> I have reported before what my father told me when the gas guzzlers of
> Post WW II were just being let out to the great unwashed:
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> "Show me a man who knows his gas mileage, and I'll show you a failure in
> life!"
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