An interesting observtion

How come guys driving Corvettes always drive so damned slow?

If the speed limit is 60 mph the cops will pull over a Corvette going 61,
but they will ignore the SUV going 120. A bit of an exaggeration, perhaps,
but it is essentially true.

For Mary's birthday, our anniversary, and just for the helluva it, we
recently picked up a 2000 Mustang. It's a red/orange convertible, with
racing wheels/tires, 5-speed stick, performance suspension -- the whole nine
yards. I got a great deal, and simply couldn't pass it up. (And, most
importantly, Mary fell in love with the car at first sight.)

One thing you should know about Mary -- she drives to get there. Actually,
she drives like she stole it. Bottom line: She has a severe lead foot.
She's either accelerating, or braking.

There is no "cruise speed" in her book.

Well, her new car looks like it's going 100 mph when it's parked. At 30, it
looks like it's going 50. And it'll do 50 in the blink of an eye, in second
gear.

The local cops follow it EVERYWHERE.

Thus, ironically, she now takes the old Subaru Outback when she's in a
hurry! It's slower, but she can speed around town in "stealth mode" and not
worry so much about the cops.

Still, I often wonder about Corvette owners. Not only do they drive slowly,
they seem to accelerate slowly. I don't speed (much), but the fun of
driving a performance car is that rush from zero to whatever the speed limit
is!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

For Mary's birthday, our anniversary, and just for the helluva it, we
recently picked up a 2000 Mustang. It's a red/orange convertible, with
racing wheels/tires, 5-speed stick, performance suspension -- the whole nine
yards. I got a great deal, and simply couldn't pass it up. (And, most
importantly, Mary fell in love with the car at first

don't these brainstorms feel good. Now I think I know why We bought jet skis
for Christmas at 55 years old.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Still, I often wonder about Corvette owners. Not only do they drive
slowly,
they seem to accelerate slowly. I don't speed (much), but the fun of
driving a performance car is that rush from zero to whatever the speed
limit
is!

Big engine. Lots of petrol. High petrol prices.

Paul
(4 litre car, very high petrol prices!) (also the reason I don't do too
many take-offs in my plane - like touch and goes...big engine, high
avgas prices, lots of fuel on take-off and climb!)

"Jay Honeck" writes:

Someday let me share with you my auto/owner stereotype. It's hoot and
would also make a good troll.

What the hell -- it's a slow day.

How come guys driving Corvettes always drive so damned slow?

They're not guys, they're gals.

And I don't know why.

"Bob Fry" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" writes:

Someday let me share with you my auto/owner stereotype. It's hoot and
would also make a good troll.

What the hell -- it's a slow day.

How come guys driving Corvettes always drive so damned slow?

They're not guys, they're gals.

And I don't know why.

They have two X chromosomes. Didn't you learn anything in health class?

In article ,
(Cal Cerise) wrote:

In my experience, when the wx is really crappy and most
light a/c are on the ground, the singles you will often
find flying are bonanzas and mooneys.

The bonanzas are often flown by very affluent people that
think that because they can pour enormous amounts of money
into flight directors and other gizmos, that they have
financially earned the right to be up there in the goo.

When you find mooneys up there in the muck, they're much
more likely to be owned by someone who is nowhere near
as affluent as the bonanza owner, but is likely 10 times
crazier than the bonanza owner.

See, the bonanza owner likely doesn't know of the danger,
or simply thinks that he can buy his way out with a
glideslope coupling autopilot to fly his airplane for him.

But the mooney owner, he knows it's dangerous, but he just
doesn't care. He's more than a little nuts. Remember, jim
campbell owns a mooney :


Perhaps an analogy may be made to the modern practice of Obstetrics,
which replaced midwifery as the modality of choice for delivering
infants decades ago. Clearly modern obstetrics has been beneficial to
cases where a Caesarian section or other intervention unquestionably
prevented maternal or neonate deaths. It's equally clear that modern
obstetrics has created many disasters by untimely, unnecessary, or
convenience-motivated intervention which would have proceeded in
uncomplicated fashion otherwise.

Psychiatrists and Obstetricians are often exceedingly arrogant
people. Since their workload has gone up and since fewer buy V-tailed
Beech Bonanzas-which ameliorated their dysgenic and arrogant effects
as the last thing going through their minds was often the accessory
case of a GTSIO Continental-fewer get to observe their fury when
their
universal beneficience is called in question.

Scientology has simply, in the words of Jim Goad, "**** in the
swimming pool". Now one cannot wholeheartedly endorse a Thomas Szasz,
because scienos have used his position so effectively, even though
they are not endorsed by Szasz, who has many valid observations.

Ed Note: A TSIO maybe,do Bonanzas have _geared_ Continentals? I don't
know. I know Mentors don't.

No -- all Bonanzas (ex: the T-Bone) have direct-drive engines.

The bonanzas are often flown by very affluent people that
think that because they can pour enormous amounts of money
into flight directors and other

These are the smartest people on earth because they have a piece of paper that
says so.