[Coco] Coco FLEX (well, "degenerated" to cars...

[Dan Olson]

> The downfall came one night when I got tired of listening to a ford driver
> brag and tossed the title on the counter for a 2 block drag in 1st gear,
> winner takes both titles home.  I had a switch on the gearshift that I could
> use to lock it in overdrive.  When the hand went down, he got a 15 foot jump
> while I was trying to keep from stalling out taking off in low/overdrive, but
> that was as far as he ever got, and 2 blocks later I was watching his
> headlights in the middle mirror.  His flathead ran out of air at about 5

I wish my AMC (75 Gremlin) had an overdrive like that, it's got a switch 
that disables o/d unless I'm in 3rd gear.

> grand cause he had a set of 11/1 heads on it with no block relief (and I knew
> that), and I broke every ring in that 236" six because a 4 & 3/8" stroke and
> nearly 7 grand equal way too many feet per second in piston speed for the

Thank goodness for short stroke motors :)

> explain why he lost, but he couldn't see past the polish on those 11/1 heads
> to see the real problem.  I built a 49 mercury with 8/1 heads & a couple of
> pounds of missing cast iron in the right places about 6 months later.  It
> could turn 6000 rpm all night long.  And stomped all over Toms ford again...
> He was a slow learner at the blackjack table too. :-)

Those are neat cars, I have quit working on the AMC in favor of a Mercury 
too, only mines a little newer.  Because of gas prices I'm trying to get 
an overdrive installed in it too, but unlike the one AMC used in the 70s 
this one will have a govenor that controls when it engages, and I can 
easily add a switch for first over :)

Just to keep this (sorta) computer related, this is my first e-mail 
written using a real VT100 (I know, it's not a real computer at all :)

 	Dan