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Ev Archive for June 1999
1207 messages, last added Wed Aug 08 18:45:33 2001

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Re: Electric beach buggy torture continues



>From Neon:

>Then the light turns green and I hammer it.....He gets a
>slight jump on my buggy, I have to wait for power as the Curtis 
>1221b revs up the amps. We cross the intersection and hit the 
>grade......As the poor ICE in his car struggles, I'm pulling smoothly. 
>He's at the top end of first, and shifts. In that moment I slip past 
>him. He just doesn't seem to have the umph in 2nd, he never gets 
>close again. I keep on pulling past current limit and to about 
>40mph. ....He is quite a few car lenths back.....Point made, EV doesn't >mean road slug!

  Way to go, Mr. Neon...Love it! These are the EV tales I live for. Did
you wait for him to finally catch up and rub it in a bit? 

See Ya.........John Wayland