Posted by Rick Denney on April 03, 2001 at 16:41:31:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: small cars that carry large tubas posted by Mary Ann on April 03, 2001 at 16:04:48:
I owned a 1970 Cutlass 350 with high compression and a four-barrel carburetor. Yup, nine miles for each gallon of premium gas, when premium was 100-octane.
But it was nine MILES to the gallon--miles that fed the soul. I can go two and a half times as far on a gallon of what they call gas these days in the Sub...Suu....S...Outback, but those miles are desultory by comparison. And I would not have wanted the Japanese alternative in those days--their legendary reliablity was still in the future in those days.
And the Cutlass would give you the excitement stopping and turning too, with four-wheel drum brakes and a weight of 4200 pounds on bias-ply tires.
Rick "who carried a plastic King sousie in that Cutlass to and from high school" Denney