On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:45:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/10/08 11:32, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:17:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 04/09/08 23:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> I have a 1965 International Harvester (aka Cornbinder) Metro-Mite > >>> delivery truck. It's so cool. Geared so low in first, you could pull > >>> stumps with it... > >> Gee, ya think uber-torque is why they did that? > > > > I don't know why frankly. It was obviously a local delivery vehicle > > and intended to carry some weight. This particular one was originally > > purchased by the USAF and used as a flight-line ambulance. They may > > have had special gearing requirements for it. It has a top end around > > *Really* smooth acceleration for critically-wounded patients?
nah, geared that low, as soon as you start to slip the clutch/release the gas, the thing practically screeches to a stop for the shift into second. You have to really know how to clutch (and double clutch) to drive the thing. > > Or really, really, really fat pilots? that's why they make the planes out of alumin[i]um.. to allow for fat pilots. A
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