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Subject:Re: A kid in Honda crunched my 87 syncro yesterday/ body damage pics
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:43:10 +1300

>I'm inclined to agree with you John but if you drive like that in most of
>SoCal you will literally never get to where you are trying to go- at least
>until the traffic dies off after 10 p.m.

Indeed. And on 2-lane blacktop with no straights worth mentioning, in
a vehicle with not a great excess of acceleration at foot, you can't
overtake unless you're right up the bum of the vehicle in front.

Hence my desire for a SVX-powered bus and a 2.2 turbodiesel in my
diesel 1.8 Corolla!
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Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
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<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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