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Fri, 03 January 2014 20:30 |
rallymaster
Messages: 662
Registered: February 2004
Location: North Plains, ORYGUN
Karma: -4
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We chickened out on that one. It took us about 1/2 mile after the bottom
of the crooked 9% grade to finally come to a stop with my foot planted on
the brake and pulling up on the steering wheel. We stopped at a house
near that 15% sign and asked about it.
Had there been cross traffic at any of those cross streets at the bottom
of that 9% grade, we'd have been toast.
And that was using low gear and the brakes.
Brakes may be cheaper than transmissions, but transmissions are cheaper
than accidents and funerals!!!
RonC
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:12:51 -0600 Bob de Kruyff <NEXT2POOL@AOL.COM>
writes:
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> ""Try that on a 15% downgrade with a 15 mph speed limit and a 90
> degree
> turn at the bottom and see if you still feel that way. ""
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> Well I wouldn't take the Queen Mary down the Mississippi either.
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> Bob de Kruyff
> 78 Eleganza
> Chandler, AZ
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Ron & Linda Clark
1978 Eleganza II
North Plains, ORYGUN
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