"Ed Price" wrote in message news:UQeKc.17318$9I.16487@okepread02...
"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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Brian Kelly wrote:
But . . but . . so the cop punches the button, turns loose a monster
burst of RF and the perp's engine sputters out.

What prevents the perp from having his own RF gun? Are the cops
going to be driving 1960 Pontiacs?
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


They should be so lucky! In 60, Pontiac was building a race rep, and a
friend of mine bought a 3/4 race special factory package Bonneville. It may
have been heavy, and the front hood looked like the horizon, but you could
chirp the tires at 80 MPH going into 4th! IIRC, also about 6 MPG. It would
make one fantastic freeway cruiser.

The trunks of those puppies were the other half of the horizon. A kW
mobile rig in the trunk? No sweat! And with room left over for the
suitcases.

Then along came the Chrysler 300s. The PA State Police bought a flock
of "Police Special" 300s which they used to nail those big GM and
Mopar cruisers. The 300s surfed the PA Turnpike at 130-140 mph "CCS".
I was riding on the TPK in the sedate 1953 six-banger family Pontiac,
didn't see trooper coming, then *Whooosh!*, his pressure wave almost
blew us out of the lane.

w3rv



Ed
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