I was out of town overnight and your thread jumped 2 pages,
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She's lost her shocks,has rigid links,allowing 1" of ground clearance,fire-suppression system, full cage,along with the other safety gear,and OPTIMISTICALLY,1-parachute.It would be instructive.
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What I heard this year was you have to have two parachutes to go 200mph.
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My power-to-weight is so puny that in the mile,I'll never make it to 130.
If I can't make it to 130,then I can't get to the 2-mile course of the 150-mph Club,where she'd have more of a chance to reach terminal velocity.
She's really a 'long-course' vehicle behaving as L.J.K.Setright described the Citroen CX of the 1970s.He said that the CX would just continue to accelerate given the chance,continually gaining speed as if she had no really discernible top speed.
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The mention made me smile. My thought is: 8-wheel push truck geared for 60ft times.
Old Mechanic -- Humankind has had bad backs since we stood upright. We could start a club. I went from stoop labor to back-breaking labor [accident loading a box car] to standing on concrete.
And now I find out sitting in a chair will keel you.