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RickB

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So I've been driving with these new tires for a few months - ever since I bought Frank & drove on down to get new tires put on.

I checked the air pressure and sure enough - 32 - 34 lbs.

I lowered the fronts to 26 and the rears to 28.
Now Frank sticks to the road like a possum after an encounter with an 18 wheeler!

OOh - bad analogy...

So who else looks over at the tires on a big truck as they pass them by? Can't be just me. I tend to try and get past those guys without any delay.
 
You could always go underneath them. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
This concept shudders me when I think about it as although my MG is a running car, it's still not a driveable car. Soon trust me.

There's freekin large trucks everywhere around here and you can't get away from em. The local government has turned the area into a buisness zone free for all and it is not uncommon for the rural roads to be clogged up with tractor trailers. I'm pretty freeked out in my Mitsi 3000GT with those things all over the place.

What really torques me is that the place is really abusive on vehicles. If it isn't the potholes and the debris in the road- it's the dump trucks spitting rocks all over the place- that new grill I just bought doesn't stand a chance.

I suspect that once I paint my MG, the idea of driving it anywhere during the workday is completely out of the question.
 
Morris said:
The best is riding their slip stream on a motorcycle.
Click to expand...

There's nothing like tucking up behind a big ol' flatbed semi toolin' down the highway with a bugeye and the top down! The tow is quite incredible /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif!!!!! Saves gas too!! (I'm not tailgating officer, I'm slip-streaming /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif )
 
I did that in a 69 MGB GT about 25 years ago.
I drove it from Seattle to LA. Sometimes getting over 40 MPG.
I also drove that car up & down from Seattle to Anchorage a few times. Those were the days...
 
Yup! For some reason it always felt like a better tow from a flat-bed than a big ol' box! (plus the view was a little easier to deal with!) Maybe it was the air coming off that long flat area and curling over the windscreen and making it a sail!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
Mythbusters had a great episode about this recently.

They showed that a cars drag can be reduced up to (if memory serves) 90%.
 
I remember following a truck through most of South Dakota. My fuel mileage went from 31 to over 40 on that tank of fuel.
 
I used to follow the semis in my old 59 Mercedes 190D. The car had no power and couldn't go above 65-70 on a flat road, but got more than 45 to the gallon. Behind a semi it could come up to 80 easily, also uphill. I couldn't really measure the mileage that way though, but it was certainly much higher.

Those trucks haven't invaded Denmark and probably never will. We're just out of the way. Driving here is like the old days in England (or at least how we assume it was by watching old English movies).
 
Tho' my bugeye is far from being on the road, I drive my MGB EVERYWHERE! I guess I'm used to the big trucks by now. Actually, I think it's kinda cool to see the reflection of my MG in the chrome hubcaps on those big trucks! Someday I need to get a photo of that! LOL! But yeah, the wheels alone drawf the car.

Don't be afraid to drive your car, just drive like you're on a motorcycle and assume everyone is an idiot just waiting to kill you. I drive EXTEMELY defensively.
 
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