It's ful like that Carl, that drives the professional drivers crazy. They
just hate having to hose you off the rear bumper....
Robert Houston
74 Midget, Katy
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Elliott <grunt2@adelphia.net>
To: Ajhsys@aol.com <Ajhsys@aol.com>
Cc: transerv@sprynet.com <transerv@sprynet.com>; spridgets@autox.team.net
<spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, October 25, 1998 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: a Very Sad thing
>I do that with my escort on the parkway with the buses running to AC,
>Gets me about 4 more mpg, And they stay around 70 or so.
>Makes for fun comuteing. Carl E.
>
>Ajhsys@aol.com wrote:
>
>> I used to work with a guy who drove a Triumph GT6. He was more than a
little
>> nuts! He found that his car was light enough to slip-stream behind
tractor
>> trailers on the turnpike at 70 MPH! He says he saved a lot of gas that
way.
>> I think he's still alive. (Folks, please don't try this!)
>>
>> Allen Hefner
>> '77 Midget
>> '92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport
>>
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>>
>> In a message dated 10/23/98 2:09:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>> transerv@sprynet.com writes:
>>
>> << Tractor trailers are a necessary fact of transportation life on our
>> highways, and I make my living through them, but when driving on the
>> highway, I am always aware of them, and give them as much leeway as
>> possible. 80,000 pounds does not stop on a dime, move much when you
crash
>> into it, or veer defensively worth a darn.
>>
>> Let's all be careful out there folks.
>>
>> Robert Houston
>> 74 Midget, Katy >>
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