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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 933810" data-attributes="member: 38206"><p><strong>I loved driving in Germany. Germans LOVE their autos and rightly so. Some of the best automotive engineers in the world.</strong></p><p><strong>I was automotive maint (fancy word for mechanic) and had at least 12 cars there. No I did not crash them.</strong></p><p><strong>GI's would bring over their American auto and then not want to ship it back. I would buy them dirt cheap as you can not</strong></p><p><strong>clear country until it is solved. They would put a sign on it for 400.00. 2 days before they were to leave country I</strong></p><p> <strong>would offer say 150 to 200.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Point I bought a 1972 Pontiac Firebird that the 350 cube inch engine was removed and a 1967 Pontiac </strong></p><p><strong>Catalina 428 was inserted. It had highway gears 2.73 and would do an honest substanied 150 to 155</strong></p><p> <strong>on the German Autobahn.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Truthfully, I only took it there a few times. Scary with old bias ply tires. This was 1982.</strong></p><p><strong>But I made many a German mad. I would ride along at 100 110 and they would flash me with their head lamps.</strong></p><p><strong>It Germany it is the law, you must move over to the right. So when a Golf GTI started to go by me I would open</strong></p><p><strong>those giant dinner plate q-jet secondary's and keep even with them at 120. They would get mad down shift their 5 speed</strong></p><p><strong>into 4th, slam it into 5th, and I was still there slowly but surely pulling away with that 360 horse, 472 foot pounds of </strong></p><p><strong>torque American Big Block. I would hold it at 145 150, steering wheel shaking a little, urine running down my leg, then let off</strong></p><p><strong>after a few minutes to get my heart beat back to normal.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>My wife finally made me get rid off it. I traded it for a Mercedes.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="texan, post: 933810, member: 38206"] [B]I loved driving in Germany. Germans LOVE their autos and rightly so. Some of the best automotive engineers in the world. I was automotive maint (fancy word for mechanic) and had at least 12 cars there. No I did not crash them. GI's would bring over their American auto and then not want to ship it back. I would buy them dirt cheap as you can not clear country until it is solved. They would put a sign on it for 400.00. 2 days before they were to leave country I would offer say 150 to 200. Point I bought a 1972 Pontiac Firebird that the 350 cube inch engine was removed and a 1967 Pontiac Catalina 428 was inserted. It had highway gears 2.73 and would do an honest substanied 150 to 155 on the German Autobahn. Truthfully, I only took it there a few times. Scary with old bias ply tires. This was 1982. But I made many a German mad. I would ride along at 100 110 and they would flash me with their head lamps. It Germany it is the law, you must move over to the right. So when a Golf GTI started to go by me I would open those giant dinner plate q-jet secondary's and keep even with them at 120. They would get mad down shift their 5 speed into 4th, slam it into 5th, and I was still there slowly but surely pulling away with that 360 horse, 472 foot pounds of torque American Big Block. I would hold it at 145 150, steering wheel shaking a little, urine running down my leg, then let off after a few minutes to get my heart beat back to normal. My wife finally made me get rid off it. I traded it for a Mercedes.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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