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Nevermind the facts, David Loewe, Jr., just give me the details!
>>>>This is a car, not an ark. Scholars aren't even sure what a >>>>cubic was. A 442 cubic car would be way too big for most roads. >>> >>> So... >>> >>> I imagined the 454? >> >>The ark was only 300 cubics. > > Is this bate? > > Cubits, not cubics. > Does it taste like bait? -- mutt "By the unwinking red eye of Ra." |
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I'm still trying to figure out who made a 442 inch motor...... Oldsmobile
made a 4 barrel - 4 speed - 2 door car . Seems to me that it came with a 455 and maybe a 400 (time dims the memory). Besides... how much bigger than a 350 is 383 inches? "Hairy" > wrote in message ... > > "Bill Lang" > wrote in message > ... > > Nevermind the facts, winnard, just give me the details! > > > > > I don't own one, but if I did I'd try to get them to sound > > > better. Rapping > > > one out at > > > 7000 rpm makes them sound like farting into a big Folgers coffee > > > can. How can you make one sound as good as one of those Hemi > > > dump trucks sound? Those sound really good for a Dodge. > > > > > The problem is that you're talking about some frenchified engine. > > The Litre crap is a dead giveaway. That's why you get that fart > > sound. > > > > Real engines have numbers like 442 and 383. Good old fashioned > > American square inches. > > > > Ummm.....try *cubic inches*;-) > H > > |
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Nevermind the facts, Jim Warman, just give me the details!
> I'm still trying to figure out who made a 442 inch motor...... > Oldsmobile made a 4 barrel - 4 speed - 2 door car . Seems to me > that it came with a 455 and maybe a 400 (time dims the memory). > Besides... how much bigger than a 350 is 383 inches? > 2 ft, 9 inches. -- mutt "By the unwinking red eye of Ra." |
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Wound Up wrote:
> Thanks, Mike. > > So many missed the point, it just makes me shake my head, again. The > troll got it, and played along. Then an OT guitar discussion ensued > (shrug). > > Some moron in the cats group in-text replied to me, spending an hour > showing how hypocritical vegans are. What does it TAKE? Judging by > this, toilet humor would have been a big hit. > > I thought I might get a chuckle or two. People have a hard time > stopping and thinking for 5 sec., and not just reacting. It usually > takes a loud noise or a threat to really get people's attention. > Reminds me of training dogs, or chasing raccoons off the porch Raccoons are a valuable part of our eco-system! How dare you chase them off your porch! They are responsible for.....;^) |
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 03:36:55 GMT, Bill Lang
> wrote: >Nevermind the facts, David Loewe, Jr., just give me the details! > >>>>>This is a car, not an ark. Scholars aren't even sure what a >>>>>cubic was. A 442 cubic car would be way too big for most roads. >>>> >>>> So... >>>> >>>> I imagined the 454? >>> >>>The ark was only 300 cubics. >> >> Is this bate? >> >> Cubits, not cubics. >> > >Does it taste like bait? You're not even going to comment on the 858 cu in engine? -- "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat." Theodore Roosevelt |
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Nosey wrote:
> Wound Up wrote: > >>Thanks, Mike. >> >>So many missed the point, it just makes me shake my head, again. The >>troll got it, and played along. Then an OT guitar discussion ensued >>(shrug). >> >>Some moron in the cats group in-text replied to me, spending an hour >>showing how hypocritical vegans are. What does it TAKE? Judging by >>this, toilet humor would have been a big hit. >> >>I thought I might get a chuckle or two. People have a hard time >>stopping and thinking for 5 sec., and not just reacting. It usually >>takes a loud noise or a threat to really get people's attention. >>Reminds me of training dogs, or chasing raccoons off the porch > > > Raccoons are a valuable part of our eco-system! How dare you chase them off > your porch! They are responsible for.....;^) (Thinking of Johnny - Ed McMahon voice - 'Yes!!! Heh heh heh heh!!') -- Wound Up 1967 Mustang Coupe, restored & modified "A pessimist is just a well-informed optimist." - Anonymous |
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Ike > You're digging it round, when it aughta Be SQUARE
>Jim Warman wrote: > >> I'm still trying to figure out who made a 442 inch motor...... > > > >Nobody. MAybe the sneaky Japanese... ---- "I'd rather take a hit in the mouth than throw a pick," Kyle Orton "education is the progressive discovery of our own ignorance" --Will Durant "people who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to " Jerry Seinfeld "If we don't have a sense of humor, we can't have a sense of perspective --Wayne Thiboux "the glass is not only half full the first half was delicious" -- Me To Reply: Scrape off the end bits... |
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