Re: Old Cars Being Used Like Normal Cars, Part ? |
Subject: Re: Old Cars Being Used Like Normal Cars, Part ? by bogus on 2020/8/21 15:49:41 MPG has improved a lot... my brothers 67 Vette (L71 427!) got 10... never better! I suspect that Pontiac would get low teens on the highway, if the engine was in good tune. I remember all too well... my first car was an AMC Pacer (sigh). It had a 258ci I-6 with a 1 bbl carb. My mom kindly bought this car for me for Christmas 1981, because it was an AMC, which made such great cars as the Rambler some 20 years earlier. I understand the logic, but do some research, please. That Pacer got shit for gas mileage. For the most part, it was gulping down at the 18-20 MPG range, local highway. Meaning, 40 mph avenues that were called highways. I graduated HS in 1983 and did a convoy drive to FL with my brothers family. He had a nearly new, 1981, Ford Crown Victoria. Plush, lux, and loaded... Nice car... as we drove down, he was getting 25 MPG on the highway, within this comfy cocoon of luxury... and I was getting 15 MPG. In this noisy shit box of an economy car. It just didn't seem fair. That car made me so damned conflicted, yes, Mom got me a car for Christmas, super generous but it was such a POS... I hated it... and being the "husky" kid, a big round car didn't help my status one damned bit. To update, my C6 (LS2 MN6) gets nearly 30 MPG on the open highway! |