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To: Prof Engineer
150 feet on dry pavement at which speed?
I'd be rather wary of driving a mobile gascan myself, but..
48,691 posted on 12/06/2003 12:31:00 PM PST by Darksheare ("We're Wombat Artillery! We go anywhere, dig wherever we want, and we look cute & fuzzy too!")
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To: Prof Engineer
I'd be rather wary of driving a mobile gascan myself, but..

...but 'consider the source' of those words from me.
I used to drive a Humvee loaded down with enough HE to make a smouldering crater of me as if it were a jaunt to the office.
Throw in some 105mm Willy Pete rounds upright behind the driver's seat and you get pretty much an image of what went through my A-driver's mind when we were racing around Fort Drum trying to shake someone off of our tail during AT.
*chckle*
48,693 posted on 12/06/2003 12:46:21 PM PST by Darksheare ("We're Wombat Artillery! We go anywhere, dig wherever we want, and we look cute & fuzzy too!")
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To: Darksheare
150' at 5mph. At 10 mph, body roll is significant. Above that, it goes tire side up.
48,695 posted on 12/06/2003 1:08:05 PM PST by Prof Engineer (Labrador Retriever~from The Latin, meaning~ Affection Sponge)
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