Rest assured, Keith, I would never fling a proper Mini! This regardless of the amount of skin taken off knuckles by the grille (worse with vans and pick-ups) while setting the timing. From the present perspective anything can be forgiven for the mere fact that one can set the timing!
By IC original I mean the IC version of the electric, that which you describe with unwarranted understatement as gross and ersatz. As for the other, you will recall that I said a few posts back, "I always used to favour the Smart for that. Hitting a moving Prius promises to be quite a challenge." -D ----- Original Message ---- From: Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Saturday, 7 April, 2007 8:28:38 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] 100 MPG vehicle contest >Kirk - I was referring to its performance when flung by a trebuchet! >The IC original should be just as bad; though both ought >nevertheless to be flung -D THAT is not a Mini. THIS is a Mini: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:1963_MkI_Mini.jpg According to Wikipedia, "The new 'BMW' MINI is technically unrelated to the old car but retains the classic transverse 4 cylinder, front-wheel-drive configuration and many stylistic elements." So does just about every other small car. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MINIandClassicMini.jpg Gross. It's ersatz, coffee and acorns - acorns might be fit things for catapults, but coffee is not. If you please. Sir. Okay, yes, I used to have a 1963 Mini, first car I ever owned. I loved it, drove it into the ground in four years, left it under a tree, fled the country in a Boeing and never saw it again. For it to be flung by a trebuchet would have been an undeserved end indeed. Anyway Dawie who or what were you planning to fling them at? And if you deem these newfangled imposters unsuitable, which vehicles would you consider ballistically superior for trebuchet-flinging purposes? Best Keith >----- Original Message ---- >From: Kirk McLoren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org >Sent: Friday, 6 April, 2007 8:01:23 AM >Subject: Re: [Biofuel] 100 MPG vehicle contest > >Read the article. Mass of batteries and caps the same as replaced >engine and transmission and located in the same place. Should handle >similarly to the conventional one. > >Kirk > >Dawie Coetzee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >No, I think it might spin lop-sidedly in flight, due to the mass of >the batteries... -D > >----- Original Message ---- >From: Kirk McLoren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org >Sent: Wednesday, 4 April, 2007 8:22:34 PM >Subject: Re: [Biofuel] 100 MPG vehicle contest > ><http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/08/the_hybrid_mini.php>http://w >ww.treehugger.com/files/2006/08/the_hybrid_mini.php > >I want one - no - maybe 2 >Kirk > >Svenne Larsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >There's a Cooper which is not far from 100. > ><http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/08/the_hybrid_mini.php>http://w >ww.treehugger.com/files/2006/08/the_hybrid_mini.php ><http://www.pmlflightlink.com/archive/news_mini.html>http://www.pmlfl >ightlink.com/archive/news_mini.html > > >2007/4/4, Kirk McLoren <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >If you are willing to accept a 3 wheel vehicle Oregon doesnt make it >impossible. >4 wheels and you have to jump through hoops. > >I was penciling a $500 vehicle for elderly that would be just in >town - grocery and trips to doctor sort of thing - electric. ><http://www.americanspeedster.com/index.htm>http://www.americanspeeds >ter.com/index.htm >some tubing frames here > >Kirk _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/
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