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Old 02-04-2012, 09:13 AM   #202 (permalink)
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(I know the Geo you mean--it was blue and had sort of a basket handle on the passenger side of the car) would be pretty original, all right. I'll have to scout up that Metro for pix of how he did the windshield. Any clues?
We are thinking of the same one. I may hunt around too. IIRC it looked like he used the Metro windshield cut down and narrowed. He would have had pillars, glass and a roof to start with. You would be starting from scratch.
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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.

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