OT: American race cars (formerly - OT: new car advice)

[vodhner at cox.net]

When the first recumbent bicycles first appeared,
they turned out to be too fast for the
Tour de France, so you won't see them there.
That was about 100 years ago ...
A recumbent with a shell was the first bike
to take the prize for hitting 65 mph.

In the demolition derbies, they banned some cars
like the '73 Continental because they were
indestructable so it wasn't fair.  :-)

I drove a rotary Mazda once back in the 70s.
Cool.  I once left a traffic light, shifted
into 2nd at about 2 mph, and took it up to
55 on the freeway in 2nd before the tach
approached the red line.  Sweet, smooth
running engines.

I heard once that they wear out and start
eating oil very quickly.  But that was a
long time ago, they may have improved
that.

Vic