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Subject:Re: Gas Mileage
From:Mark Gajewski
Date:Wed, 28 Oct 1998 16:33:40 -0500

not me either.  19-21mpg on my 4spd. no matter what I do.  Around
town...interstate @60mph...interstate@75mph.  It's really quite
bizarre.  Of course I did put some magnets on my fuel lines ;-)

Jim Fritz wrote:

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>
>                       RE: Gas Mileage                              10/28/98
>
> Does ANYBODY else on the list get this kind of mileage? I'm in total
> agreement with Bud about the process vs. the event but I didn't think
> Westys were able to get mileage like that. If so, I'm doing something
> __seriously__ wrong in the way I'm driving.
> Jim
>
>
> Budding Rose wrote:
> >Josh- I consistantly get 23 to 26 MPG- 84 Westy - I drive between 55
> and
> >65 and at that speed I can relax- let the rest of the world go by and
>
> >arrive rested and relaxed and not too far behind the "fast drivers".
> Of
> >course in traffic it is diminished.
> >I believe the pleasure is in the trip- not the first to arrive-- the
> >trip is a process - Arrival is an event- and you are in deep doo doo
> if
> >you dont know the dirfference. Drive carefuly. Bud Yandell
>
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