Unfortunately, perhaps, for RS7, the hatred goes unrequited. I wouldn't waste my time hating charlatans and posers of RS7's ilk; they provide too much amusement when they are exposed.Quote from Pabst:
Speak for yourself FPC. This ain't your funny one liners. This is DEEEEP HATRED. I LOVE readin' this shit.![]()
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Unfortunately, perhaps, for RS7, the hatred goes unrequited. I wouldn't waste my time hating charlatans and posers of RS7's ilk; they provide too much amusement when they are exposed.
Typical RS7, as usual changing the context as well as the spin. Just like the kid's picture, I never said whether or not that was his child. You cannot make that conclusion from a photograph, it's impossible. I simply stated the only conclusion one can draw; that picture was a picture of a child. But in every one of RS7's rants he includes his incorrect spiel that I claim his "son isn't my son." Along with his other out of context and disoriented ramblings, typical for a liar that's been caught. No offer of debate for his "secret mission" story, however. No, of course not.Quote from Error 404:
(RS7's manic ranting snipped per RS7's wishes!)
And somehow, Max presumes to know what kind of motor my dad's car had?
LOL....No, you are not obsessed. This is just information you had at your fingertips. Everyone knows this stuff off the top of their heads!Quote from max401:
If you look at the two cars, VW/Corvette and simply do the math for horsepower and/or torque to weight ratio, you will find it hard to conclude that the Corvette, even at the lowest available horsepower engine (250HP in 1962 with a curb weight of around 3,065-3,300 lbs), would have to be very easy to get off the line. Even though the the VW has more weight per horse/torque to move, it isn't hard to learn on at all, the first gear ratio is very low to make up for the lack of power. How RS7 failed at this task is beyond me. I think it's just another of his tall tales.
FYI- Corvettes came with a six cylinder engine only in the first two years, 1953-1954 and were only available in the two-speed Powerglide automatic.
Oh, I forgot, his statement was in error, he was only "led to believe."
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My dad took me to my grandparents house after I got my jr. license, so I could learn to drive a stick. We went in the VW, which was supposedly one of the easier stick shifts to drive.
We went back home, and my dad told me that the next weekend he would take me back in the 'Vette. (One of the most difficult sticks to drive).
Another strange part of this tale: Why would the old man, after seeing his 16 year old not capable of driving even simple VW stick, then let him drive his pride and joy Corvette?
When I was 16, the only people I knew who had a hard time learning to drive a stick were girls.
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RS7 is obviously trying to get out of the "torque trap" by stating I couldn't know what engine Daddy's Corvette had. However, they all had plenty, even the base 327/250HP engine.
Actually, anyone who knows any Corvette history knows this stuff. First Chevy V8 anything was 1955. As far as horsepower, any motorhead can tell you what the configurations were and could tell the horsepower merely by looking at the casting marks on the front of the heads. The cheap trick when I was in high school was to put a 327/350HP cam in the 300HP engine.Quote from Error 404:
LOL....No, you are not obsessed. This is just information you had at your fingertips. Everyone knows this stuff off the top of their heads!
So now itâs Spin #3 on the drivability of the Corvette, it was his Dad that told him. Sorry, but the sentence does not even remotely indicate his father informed him, heâs stating it as an additional fact to the story. And since RS7 is a college graduate (as we all well know), went to an Ivy League school to attempt his Masters (probably in Fictional Writing), then I have to believe that he is full of crap.Quote from Error 404:
Here is what I said:
âWe went back home, and my dad told me that the next weekend he would take me back in the 'Vette. (One of the most difficult sticks to drive).â
So yes, I was LED TO BELIEVE by my father. Who you are now calling, by inference a liar. Well that would figure, since he was my father (who, by the way, I NEVER called "Daddy"....but keep up your habit of putting words in my mouth).
I doubt that any father, after seeing his kid not being able to drive a simple VW, would allow him further experimentation on his Corvette. Does this mean Pop didn't love the kid? No, he just didn't want the clutch torn up in his late model sports car. So logic would dictate that the My Daddy Had A Corvette story is just that, another RS7 fantasy.Quote from Error 404: âAnother strange part of this tale: Why would the old man, after seeing his 16 year old not capable of driving even simple VW stick, then let him drive his pride and joy Corvette?â
Why Max? Maybe he knew that I would have more desire to do it right. Which I did. Or maybe he just loved me.
Iâll let that statement speak for itself.Quote from Error 404:And as far as my struggle for the 15 minutes or so with the VW shift before I gave up in frustration when I was 16, compared to your (experience?) of only knowing that only GIRLS had a hard time learning, I guess I was just not as "manly" as you.
Well, since when did any Corvette ever manufactured have a âlow torque V8?â The comment couldnât be anymore sarcastic.Quote from Error 404:
"Torque trap"? Is this another one of your lame "lies for the greater good" like the French visa story you concocted? LOL.
One day the Corvette has a "low torque V8...the next day even the smaller Corvette V8 has "Plenty" of torque".
Nothing wrong with My Daddy Had A Corvette story, except there are a few holes in it. And the re-spins donât make any sense at all. Notice how RS7 always trys to change what he originally stated... and flubs it every time. For example, first he claims unequivically that he played guitar with the Allmans. Later this turns into a "bass guitar." No muscian would generalize what they were playing, particularly in BFD gig like playing onstage with the Allmans.Quote from Error 404:
And out of curiosity, why do you continually make "boasts" out of the mundane? A Corvette is a "tall tale"? A modestly priced American car? (A pretty to look at, but poorly made Chevy?).
RS7 put pictures of a child on ET. I don't care what he claims. My position is what can these photos conclusively prove? It is clearly a picture(s) of a child, other than that, it proves nothing. However, if you really believe that the United States State Department somehow sent a group of US Army soldiers masquerading as civilian "tourists with cameras" who oddly at the same time, for some inexplicable reason, had "fine press credentials" on an illegal and secret mission to some remote part of Burma, then those pictures can mean anything you want. And RS7 can probably get you a date with the movie star or perhaps Cher.Quote from Error 404:
The picture of "just a kid"...Again, good case for him not being my son. That is why I happened to have pictures of the same little boy taken both in Menton and in Monaco in different outfits. (So I would have these pictures to show a mental case some 14 or so years later to pull the wool over his eyes????????) Get help Max!!
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Actually, anyone who knows any Corvette history knows this stuff.
1. I could have been in high school last week and installed a 327/350HP camshaft in a 327/300HP engine.Quote from Error 404:
What are you NOT an expert on? LOL
So you were in high school when the 327/350 was around? Well, well, well. What do you know? Max tells us his age!!!!
Not too young, and not too old. Just perfect for Vietnam!
So why were YOU not drafted?
Too fat? Section Eight? Both?
(My guess would be both)