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KB2VXA > CAR 21.09.12 16:42l 38 Lines 1750 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Hi Pete, motor heads, petrol heads and pot heads,
Now You're confusing the Rocket 88 with the jet bugs of which there are
several. Then there WAS a rocket car built by the Mythbusters, you'll
find the video on You Tube and probably the Discovery Channel/Mythbusters
site as well. When you put a RATO pack on the roof of a car things get
awsome pretty quick.
I don't remember the Olds but I remember the radio with the Power Bar, an
automatic station search function. A cousin in Detroit gave me an antique
floor standing beast but we couldn't fit it in the car so I took the
chassis. It had in addition to AM broadcast a number of shortwave bands
so for several years it served as my SWL receiver. The AM part was
similar to the Delco radio in the Olds, manual tuning and two motorized
functions, station presets and search. I'm sure you remember the analog
tuning FM radios with AFC, these were the only two I ever saw with AFC on
the AM band. Remember how you could drag a station halfway across the
dial with the AFC on? You could do the same thing with the Olds and get
the same "oops, what happened to the station?" effect if you forgot to
turn the AFC off, tune in the station and THEN turn it back on to lock it
in.
Ah, the Scotland Yard car with the special motor, reminds me of ordinary
cars with the legendary Police Interceptor package every auto maker has.
I don't know why they bother with those gas guzzlers that can be outrun
and some even outrun a helicopter when you'll never outrun a Motorola and
a set of spike strips.
73 de Warren
Station powered by JCP&L atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.
Message timed by NIST: 15:11 on 2012-Sep-21 GMT
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