On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 12:13:03 +0000 (UTC), Theodore Heise
wrote:

On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 11:59:31 +0700,
John B Slocomb wrote:
On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 23:14:54 -0400, Joy Beeson
wrote:
On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 17:33:25 -0500, AMuzi wrote:

One might rate cars on aesthetics, pure speed, maintenance
(blood and treasure, as they say) and so on, but for pure
exhilarating pleasure at speed, I'd return to the early
series BMW 2002 (before they got too heavy to corner well).

You haven't experienced speed until you've stood on the drawbar
of a Farmall Model C doing ten miles an hour on a gravel road.

Hey! I've done that too.


Don't you have to be barefooted to get the full benefit?

Maybe so, but I got all the benefit I wanted with shoes on.

Yikes!

You wore shoes "back on the farm"? It must have been winter :-)
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Cheers

John B.