[TR] 65 mph

[spook01@comcast.net]

Used to be based at jfk.  We would fly into la guardia then sureway cab to jfk.  One afternoon we heard a female on the cab radio...
"gimme that!  You don't have a clue where you're going!
Hello, is anyone there?"
"This is the dispatcha.  Who is this?"
"I'm a flight attendant, and we are in your cab.  The driver is Russian or something.  He's lost and doesn't speak English."
"What cab ya in?"
She gives him a number.
"Ok, we gotcha.  You're by the UN building.. hang on.  Dmichi com'mere.  The sergio he's lost."
New voice in rapid Russian.....
"Ok, lady, he knows now."
"Well, I'm late, and.............."

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----- Reply message -----
From: "Wbeech" <wbeech at flash.net>
To: "spook01 at comcast.net" <spook01 at comcast.net>
Cc: "Randall" <TR3driver at ca.rr.com>, "triumphs at autox.team.net" <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Subject: [TR] 65 mph
Date: Tue, Sep 20, 2011 19:11


Ahhh.... The quintessential NYC experience, were you on to way to the Carnegie Deli?

Just looked at the plugs on Tarbaby after a few drives at our new near- sea level home, they are a little/lot on the black side. I expected as much so I have leaned the SUs by two flats.  Did not change the needles as it was recommended to leave them as stock when they were rebuilt at 6,000ft. 

I haven't changed the timing from 6 BTDC, any other re-aclimation suggestions would be appreciated.   FWIW I use the mid-grade gas, two octane points higher here than in Utah

TIA,
Bill

Sent from mobile Bill

On Sep 20, 2011, at 2:18 PM, "spook01 at comcast.net" <spook01 at comcast.net> wrote:

> The van wyck is traveled at high speed by nyc taxi drivers.  
> It's old, and people in nyc don't drive much...its the only place I've ever been where the cab driver swerved past a BMW driver trying to change a tire, and knocked the bimmer door off the car!  As we blasted back across two lanes, he turned and grinned...
> "he won't do that again!" 
> 
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone
> 
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Randall" <TR3driver at ca.rr.com>
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> Subject: [TR] 65 mph
> Date: Tue, Sep 20, 2011 09:15
> 
> 
>> I think one hundred on a perfectly straight, billiard table 
>> smooth, deserted road is far more safe than doing 55 on the 
>> van wyck during rush hour.
> 
> I'd never heard of the Van Wyck, so I looked it up on Google.  Looks to be
> fairly comparable to CA-91, which is what I drive to work almost every day
> in my TR3.  And is where my TR3A got totaled, while I was stopped behind
> traffic.
> 
> -- Randall  
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