10-28-2020, 02:41 PM
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Batman Junior
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Just a nice message from a long-time lurker
Posting this simply because it was nice to hear from a lurker (zero posts) who has been visiting the site regularly for 8+ years!
(Name removed to protect the innocent...)
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Hey, Darin.
[REDACTED] here, one of your long-standing lurkers.
I've been driving Geo Metros since 1993. 'Tried my darndest to get a Metro to do 60 mpg at 60 mph in real-world driving. Got it to 58.5 but that is the best I can seem to manage. These are my daily drivers, no radical tricks: Just careful driving and minor modifications anyone could reasonably do. Best tanks ever were 68+ mpg, that with a car-full of camping gear, including a bike! - in warm weather and on flat roads... Such is not to be found on my home turf, which is north-central PA.
Got many of the good ideas I've used from ecomodder, so for that, I thank you and the good folks who take the time to do the write-ups.
Thanks for everything you do, and have done, for so many years!
Cheers!
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Sharing with appreciation of the many members around here whose projects & posts inspire lurkers and visitors like him.
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10-28-2020, 03:04 PM
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Thanks for rememberizing the lurkers. Some of our posters don't consider that the walls have eyes.  Currently the front page shows 909/13=~70:1.
Anyways, I've succumbed to peer pressure. Parked out front is a 1990 XFi.
I don't have a camera [battery] at the moment, but my friend took a picture last night and when it shows up I'll start a thread. I have an oval Dish antenna (to cut in half) and the curve exactly matches the rear wheelwell of the Metro.
From 45mpg to 60? I have some work cut out for myself.
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10-28-2020, 03:30 PM
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I lurked for a few years, but gave in eventually.
Nice to hear some positive feedback from seemingly nowhere!
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10-29-2020, 10:46 AM
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Batman Junior
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AND he (lurker) tells me he also has a 1st gen Miata. Exceptional taste in automobiles! He's happy with the 40-ish MPG he gets bombing down the highways in it.
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Anyways, I've succumbed to peer pressure. Parked out front is a 1990 XFi.
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Yay! Looking forward to the thread. |
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10-29-2020, 01:21 PM
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Hey! I resemble that remark!
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10-29-2020, 05:45 PM
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Batman Junior
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I know, right!?
It got me wondering what the Venn diagram of Metro / Miata/MX-5 / G1 Insight ownership looks like. Appreciation for purity of purpose & design? Hmm...
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