MM vs inch
05-27-2014, 11:48 AM
#62
Nordschleife Master
Ahh the CX... I've spent many hours in the backseat of a CX during family holidays around Europe as a kid. It was always funny watching the hydraulic suspension drop to the ground when parking.
05-27-2014, 01:19 PM
#63
Yes, have fond memories of ours, also did many long european trips with it.
The adjustable ride height was a fun feature too, along with the globes displaying RPM + speed (this was one of the early '76 model).
Ah the good old times...
The adjustable ride height was a fun feature too, along with the globes displaying RPM + speed (this was one of the early '76 model).
Ah the good old times...
05-27-2014, 07:37 PM
#65
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I've put many miles on a RHD car (Ford Falcon - great car, BTW). IT was an automatic, but for the life of me, I cna't imagine trying to shift with my left hand. I see your point, but it seems to me more often dexterity is required of the shifting hand, as most of hte time, shifting is done in a straight line, either under braking or WOT, rather than mid corner.
Perhaps a similar analogy would be a guitar. Right hand guitars require more dexterity from the left hand, which does all the fingering, while the right hand strums or picks. Left hand guitars are hte opposite. I can't imagine trying to finger with my right hand.......though when I play trumpet, my right hand controls all of hte valves.
Perhaps a similar analogy would be a guitar. Right hand guitars require more dexterity from the left hand, which does all the fingering, while the right hand strums or picks. Left hand guitars are hte opposite. I can't imagine trying to finger with my right hand.......though when I play trumpet, my right hand controls all of hte valves.
The really hard part is parallel parking.... I gave up on that very quickly.
And even worse was when a cop came up behind me on the motorway out of nowhere, it was a paniced two or three seconds trying to work out which side of the road to pull over to while trying to figure out why I was being pulled over. Then he passed me and kept going elsewhere.
06-01-2014, 04:01 PM
#66
Nordschleife Master
On anything that I have to think about to the point of writing a spreadsheet, my thought process is "whatever other people use in this context" -> SI units -> "whatever other people use in this context". Since I am going by high school physics and it's been some time since I was in high school, SI units are very convenient for me in terms of keeping the units, measures, and laws of physics are neatly aligned.
