The easy answer ~ it makes the brake lines shorter.
The hard answer ~ Damifino, everytime I hear a credible source explaining the effects of caliper mounting location on bearing loading, and why the front and back benefit from different loadings, after five minutes my eyes glaze over and I drool on my beer gut. :o |
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Windy day, no way.
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sure, as long as you're traveling INTO the wind. whoooooosh!
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I don't believe it. :headshake
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But you see, the oil companies don't want you to know about it, so they are keeping the salt water fuel hidden.
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Yes, they dumped it all in the ocean.
Come to think of it, they dumped a lot of oil in the ocean too. :eyebrow: |
It would rust out in 3 years
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Rust out! I dug out this picture of a rollback my buddy had in his junkyard. I think it's an Autocar but wouldn't bet on it. Not only a stainless steel deck, a stainless steel cab. Don't know the year of the truck or the history, only that it wasn't registered, wasn't being used. I didn't ask and he didn't volunteer.
http://cellar.org/2015/stainlessAutocar.jpg It might seem like an odd situation, but along the driveway to his house, through the junkyard, he installed a Thunderbird planter for flowers. You can't tell because of the weeds but the hood is over six feet off the ground. Bolted the doors shut and filled it with dirt so it didn't take long to rust away. http://cellar.org/2015/tbirdplanter.jpg So you see, a stainless rollback sitting unused didn't strike me as outrageous... in context. ;) |
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It's not the same as seeing one in the wild, but that reminded me of this stainless 911 I saw years ago in the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
Attachment 50422 I used to wonder why cars weren't all built out of stainless steel, but that was before I had a better understanding of consumer desires and economics. |
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shiny!
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The problem with that Ford is everything under the shiny is stock components, which rusted and rotted away because these cars were driven everyday by the steel company salesmen, except one show car.
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There were four, I'm pretty sure. They were given to salesmen, that were special in whatever way, to drive. They all were driven in excess of 200,000 miles.
Rusty, rotty, still a Ford, whatthefuckever...I wonder how many 36 Ford Tudors went 200,000+ miles? ETA: Quote:
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I'm sure they got the best of service, plus I've noticed my truck seems to be "ageing" faster since I stopped driving it every day. Of course it may be driving every day you don't notice minor fading. Better to keep moving... my doctor keeps saying.
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And sometimes, ironic shit happens. :rolleyes:
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