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> It was a Sunny August day in 2002. I was traveling with Russ Wolfe up the Hills of Wyoming > on the way to Parma with Jim Adney and Dave Hall in Jim's 69 FI Auto Square behind me and John > Jaranson in his 66 Square in front. > > We're way up in altitude now so I'm getting a bit concerned with the lack of power I'm > getting but Jim put my mind to ease the day before by explaining why. So I continue on anyway with > my Cruise control happily engaged watching John creep farther ahead in Sophy... but he did have a > lighter car, no passenger, and a fresh engine (notice I didn't mention the carbs here). What I > didn't know is that Jim was back there with memories of his Palomar Hill climb thinking "Ill teach > this guy the laws of Physics on the next hill!" I look up from my gauges only to see this Fully > loaded AUTOMATIC Squareback BLOWING ME BY!! :-o WELL... feeling totally exasperated with my hammer > on the floorboards... we just had to have one of those "How did you" conversations that night at > dinner and he revealed his secret (although I still wonder if there weren't any ratio rockers hidden > in there! :) > > Next morning we start out of Dubois WY at 8000feet with Jason Cornfeld in the lead as this > was his neck of the woods and he knew just where to go. No more cruise control in the mountains for > me... and I kept thinking "Conserve momentum" and sure enough that little light blue Square kept > getting smaller in my rear view mirror! > > So... may our resident list Physicist teach us all, "Ya cant forget the laws of Physics!" and > combine the unique abilities of a Type 3 with such things as conservation of Momentum and remembering > that the coefficient of static Friction is greater than that of dynamic friction and even MORE people > will be turning their heads and looking at our cars!! > > Keith ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/