Due to a little electrical gremlin, my good buddy Mark Jorgensen thought it wise for us to trailer home his black beauty and out came the Venom Red ACR ******** from it's four tired enclosure. The drive back to the cornfields of Kneebrasky yielded a couple of interesting observations , and they are;
1. Driving a track thoroughbred back a distance of over a thousand miles, when it is devoid of a radio or sound deadening ,is akin to sitting in the back seat of an ancient jet , next to the lavatory , with two old jet engines blasting away at the sky , your ears acting as cymbals ( occassionally I swore I heard the toilet lid drop ).
2. When driving behind a trailer you actually can find yourself driving the speed limit .......................and with no radio you pretend you are drafting behind Jimmie Johnson at Talledega.( okay are you saying I may have way too vivid imagination ?)3. Hmmmm........................seemed to never need fuel, as one section of the trip I got 26.9, another 26.6 , and when we had to fight a 30-40mph side wind it dropped to 22.1. Hence.................
I want a refund on my gas guzzler tax, as this big honkin V10 is supposed to only get 22 mpg on the highway , and since I am close to 5 mpg off, I figure the tax was a bogus way to grab money from the unsuspecting?
600+ hp, Pilot Sport Cup DOT race tires, 26.9 mpg ----- go figure.
Guess taking out that radio and sound deadening did lighten it up alot, but wow look at the fuel advantages -- who woulda thought!!
1. Driving a track thoroughbred back a distance of over a thousand miles, when it is devoid of a radio or sound deadening ,is akin to sitting in the back seat of an ancient jet , next to the lavatory , with two old jet engines blasting away at the sky , your ears acting as cymbals ( occassionally I swore I heard the toilet lid drop ).
2. When driving behind a trailer you actually can find yourself driving the speed limit .......................and with no radio you pretend you are drafting behind Jimmie Johnson at Talledega.( okay are you saying I may have way too vivid imagination ?)3. Hmmmm........................seemed to never need fuel, as one section of the trip I got 26.9, another 26.6 , and when we had to fight a 30-40mph side wind it dropped to 22.1. Hence.................
I want a refund on my gas guzzler tax, as this big honkin V10 is supposed to only get 22 mpg on the highway , and since I am close to 5 mpg off, I figure the tax was a bogus way to grab money from the unsuspecting?
600+ hp, Pilot Sport Cup DOT race tires, 26.9 mpg ----- go figure.
Guess taking out that radio and sound deadening did lighten it up alot, but wow look at the fuel advantages -- who woulda thought!!