Bob Rentfro wrote: > I've been driving/working out in the Acura (working on my upperbody > strength...I shall look like Arnold by the time I get the steering rack > fixed...
When I was 20, I delivered pizza after school in a 1977 Saab 99 EMS (that was the rally replica, complete with quick ratio manual steering) After a few months the steering got to feeling normal. What was not normal was my discovery that I could climb a vertical drain pipe without using my legs, just walked up it with my hands. Took me seconds to get to the roof of the Domino's and retrieve the dough trays that some moron threw up there. Years later, working at the Saab shop, when my boss sent the rack from his 900 GLE in for a rebuild, he procured a manual rack so he could keep driving his car. The only manny rack in a US 900 was in the rare 900 EMS. Imagine the steering from my car in a heavier chassis. My boss was at least 60 years old at the time. He was not amused, but he drove it that way for two weeks. When his rack came back, he had me shove whatever I was working on out of my bay so I could upgrade his car to power steering immediately. Those two weeks are probably the only instance in which a Saab 900 wore EMS steering and a handicap license plate. (Old Vic had polio much worse than I did, in addition to being 35 years older than me) Mitch.
