My OperaAll Hail Olympic Eck and a Disappointing Magnum
Friday, March 9, 2007 5:31:05 AM
The Winter Olympics are coming to Vancouver and there is already a buzz about town. We were in Whistler last weekend and decided to get Wee Eck started on his rigorous training regieme.
He was quite intrigued by the bobsled and really wanted to have a go alone, but alas we didn't have enough phone books to prop him up to see over the steering wheel.
He is quite confident that he will taste Olympic victory, as is evident from his time on the practice podium, that is if Soother Spitting becomes an Olympic Sport.
Unfortunately Oklahoma Brian's future as an Olympic Athlete does not look quite as promising.
A colleague of mine, another Brian, related a story to me how he had rented a Dodge Magnum from Hertz before Christmas. It was a 340 Hp 4 Wheel drive and went like stink. I hopped off the rental car bus in Chicago, and spied this black Magnum sitting in the Executive Aisle. I scurried over and grabbed it, with visions of big smokey 4 wheel power drifts dancing in my head. Leaving O'Hare Airport, you head right onto the Interstate, but once on the interstate, I found the traction control disable button, and practiced timing the full throttle 2-1 downshifts in anticipation of the upcoming offramp. I backed off the throttle on the exit ramp, to give me lots of room to the car in front, smacked the shifter sideways dropping it into first gear while simulataneously driving the throttle back into the floor, and......
nothing happened, not even a chirp. A quick stop in the next parking lot to check under the hood revealed a 3.5 Litre 250Hp V6. It seems the SXT version that I had is NOT better than the SRT version that Brian had. 250 Hp in big land yacht, my snowmobile almost makes that much hp and only weighs 400lbs, (that was until the unforunate incident where the engine stopped turning last weekend). I can only assume this version is built for the Harley crowd, that like to look good but are afraid to go fast.
Note to self. Open the hood in the rental car lot next time.
Cheers
Bryan
He was quite intrigued by the bobsled and really wanted to have a go alone, but alas we didn't have enough phone books to prop him up to see over the steering wheel.
He is quite confident that he will taste Olympic victory, as is evident from his time on the practice podium, that is if Soother Spitting becomes an Olympic Sport.
Unfortunately Oklahoma Brian's future as an Olympic Athlete does not look quite as promising.
A colleague of mine, another Brian, related a story to me how he had rented a Dodge Magnum from Hertz before Christmas. It was a 340 Hp 4 Wheel drive and went like stink. I hopped off the rental car bus in Chicago, and spied this black Magnum sitting in the Executive Aisle. I scurried over and grabbed it, with visions of big smokey 4 wheel power drifts dancing in my head. Leaving O'Hare Airport, you head right onto the Interstate, but once on the interstate, I found the traction control disable button, and practiced timing the full throttle 2-1 downshifts in anticipation of the upcoming offramp. I backed off the throttle on the exit ramp, to give me lots of room to the car in front, smacked the shifter sideways dropping it into first gear while simulataneously driving the throttle back into the floor, and......
nothing happened, not even a chirp. A quick stop in the next parking lot to check under the hood revealed a 3.5 Litre 250Hp V6. It seems the SXT version that I had is NOT better than the SRT version that Brian had. 250 Hp in big land yacht, my snowmobile almost makes that much hp and only weighs 400lbs, (that was until the unforunate incident where the engine stopped turning last weekend). I can only assume this version is built for the Harley crowd, that like to look good but are afraid to go fast.
Note to self. Open the hood in the rental car lot next time.
Cheers
Bryan
Dacotah # Wednesday, May 9, 2007 5:39:00 PM