Fred,
If it makes you feel any better, gasoline for regular unleaded here in San
Diego is about $2.16 a gallon at present, with the premium leaded I'll be
needing for my Spitfire at about $2.49.
I think those "special driving techniques" are a lot of hooey. Must involve
coasting -- a LOT.
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Thomas
To: Triumphs ; spitfires
Cc: british
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 1:57 PM
Subject: M.P.G. for a T/R 3
I'm reading a few performance road tests of the T/R 3 as written by
"Autocar",
it says, driving hard 28 MPG, attainable 35/37, and lastly it says a
"unmodified" but using special driving techques it attained 71.02 MPG, I
have
no idea what special driving techniques means, the very best MPG I have
ever
been able to attain is 31.6 and I did that only once, most of the time I'm
in
the 26/27 MPG class, anyone care to share what they get and how they do it
is
appreciated, especially with petrol approaching $2.00 here on the east
coast,
I have standard H-6 carbs using RM needles with O/D, I buy 89 octane and
very
seldom get into it from the standing start, I do cruise in the over 70 MPH.
"FT"
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