Hot Rod Article

[Shannen Durphey]

Not gonna dwell here, but I expect synthetic fuels and lubes to
compete with corn and other organics for a while.  Electric cars are
too "foreign".   And change is slow to reach me.  I'm still waiting
for the flying cars the writers of the 1940s promised.
Shannen

Dave Zug wrote:
> 
> Might the definition of hot rodding in the future be something like
> adding 7 HP to your 34 HP electric by replacing the windings with
> windings dipped into liquid nitrogen to allign the molecules??
> Will Jegs be selling dipped winding wire for MUSTANGS ONLY? Will
> you be telling your grandkids about the "engines that actually made
> noise"? Will Grumpy start selling bootleg lead-acid cells on the
> black market?  funny how the "what if's" have changed from things
> like "automatic transmissions?!  what next... the automatic gas
> pedal?!"
> 
> If the public, or even probably that hot rod article guy could know
> some of the creative things the modern auto controller is doing, (or
> if I knew more for that matter) they should be amazed. the  reaction
> "that's amazing WOW" as opposed to "oh no something is being killed
> off" is what seperates the neo-tweaker generation from the classic
> rodder generation. Its all the same - do the tweaks, break stuff or
> go faster, don't tell anyone what you did so you can be the fastest.
> ha haa. ;o)
> 
> those rods will never die.
> 
> > Just read the new Hot Rod with articles on future of hotrodding.  One
> > guy says that he sees hot rodding being killed off in the future as
> > restrictions come down on the older vehicles and people not being smart
> > enough to modify the new stuff.  The guy obviously doesn't know any of
> > the people on this list.
> >
> >
> ~~~
> Dave Z. www.delanet.com/~tgp