What kind of fuel mileage do you get?

[Young Ed]

I finally got my numbers from by buddy who was with. He paid for every other tank so he had 1/2 the gallons used numbers. I filled up at the station about 3 blocks from home on the way to and from detroit. I show 1963.5 miles traveled and 99.5 gallons used. Thats 19.7 MPG.

[BloodyKnuckles]

BK, with the 400 lbs of men, do you think the methane-rich environment could have been a contributing factor?

Probably That stuff is extremely volatile.

[Norm's Coupe]

Maybe the guys here should take up a collection to buy Norm an hour meter like on a tractor.

To be honest guys, I really don't care what kind of MPG or HPG's I get in my coupe. When the tank gets low enough, it's time to put more gas in regardless of how many hours or miles the car has accumulated. How is keeping track going to help it get more MPG or HPG?

So.........save your money on the meter, I wouldn't use it anyway.

[Don Jordan]

Something people are considering is the odometer.

I took my Plymouth on a 100 mile (each way) trip across the desert. Kind of boring so I started watching the mile markers. The first mile was okay then it started loosing. After about 5 miles I had lost 1/10 of a mile.

I'm an English teacher - I've never been a math achiever - but if I figure that out right after 100 miles my odometer would read (there are 20 5 miles so 20 x .1 = 2 miles) 98 miles?? So if I were figuring MPG - never mind - this just got too confusing.

Like Norm when the needle gets close to E I stop and put more gas in.

Back in 47 when gas was 20 cents a gallon I don't think anyone cared.

(I just looked at my keyboard - they don't have a cents key! What are we coming to?)

[Don Jordan]

Something people aren't considering is the odometer.

I took my Plymouth on a 100 mile (each way) trip across the desert. Kind of boring so I started watching the mile markers. The first mile was okay then it started loosing. After about 5 miles I had lost 1/10 of a mile.

I'm an English teacher - I've never been a math achiever - but if I figure that out right after 100 miles my odometer would read (there are 20 5 miles so 20 x .1 = 2 miles) 98 miles?? So if I were figuring MPG - never mind - this just got too confusing.

Like Norm when the needle gets close to E I stop and put more gas in.

Back in 47 when gas was 20 cents a gallon I don't think anyone cared.

(I just looked at my keyboard - they don't have a cents key! What are we coming to?)

[Lou Earle]

Stock engine in 47 coupe 16 inch 205 radials and Asche overdrive- at 65 70 get a reliable 21 to 23. Have gotten a little better at 55- about 24.

Lou

[NatesSedan]

(I just looked at my keyboard - they don't have a cents key! What are we coming to?)

Maybe we just don't make any cents. Maybe I should watch my spelling with and English teacher hear.

I dont keep track with my Plymouth either. I know its time to fill up when AAA get there. (No sending unit and/ or bad gauge)

[Plymouthy Adams]

do you mean this symbol ¢

[Norm's Coupe]

(I just looked at my keyboard - they don't have a cents key! What are we coming to?)

Don,

Don't let Tim make you think you have a bad keyboard. Just look at your word processing program on your computer. Then select symbols from your tool bar. Insert the ⊄ symbol into your document, copy it and past it into this box. Lots of symbols to choose from there even a check mark like this √.

[Plymouthy Adams]

or just hold the alt button and use the number keypad and type 0162,,nothing to open, nothing to copy, nothing to paste..what could be easier...

[TodFitch]

or just hold the alt button and use the number keypad and type 0162,,nothing to open, nothing to copy, nothing to paste..what could be easier...

Once you get past the first 127 character codes you are out of the realm of ASCII and into either a myriad of incompatible "code pages" (old fashioned and now deprecated) or you will be using Unicode characters. I just checked and this web site is using ISO-8859-1 (almost but not quite Windows 1252 compatible). So your use of the 0162 code works. For now. And maybe on newer Windows operating systems that use Unicode it will do an automatic translation for you so it will continue working for the indefinite future. If you are lucky.

Even though I have been programming computers for 35 years I have never felt the need to remember any of the character codes above 127. Mostly because they are different for each and every operating system I have had to deal with.

And, for you Mac heads on OS 10 where the old "key caps" utility does not exist like it did in OS9 and earlier, there should be a national flag on the top right of your screen. You can use that do "show character palette" which will allow you to select the Unicode character you want to enter into your file. If you use that to enter text into a web site like this one that uses a non-Unicode character set then Safari will translate it for you into the correct character code if it exists. Unfortunately ISO-8859-1 only has 255 characters while Unicode has thousands and can cover all modern and many archaic languages. $¢£¥

[Norm's Coupe]

Once you get past the first 127 character codes you are out of the realm of ASCII and into either a myriad of incompatible "code pages" (old fashioned and now deprecated) or you will be using Unicode characters. I just checked and this web site is using ISO-8859-1 (almost but not quite Windows 1252 compatible). So your use of the 0162 code works. For now. And maybe on newer Windows operating systems that use Unicode it will do an automatic translation for you so it will continue working for the indefinite future. If you are lucky.

Even though I have been programming computers for 35 years I have never felt the need to remember any of the character codes above 127. Mostly because they are different for each and every operating system I have had to deal with.

And, for you Mac heads on OS 10 where the old "key caps" utility does not exist like it did in OS9 and earlier, there should be a national flag on the top right of your screen. You can use that do "show character palette" which will allow you to select the Unicode character you want to enter into your file. If you use that to enter text into a web site like this one that uses a non-Unicode character set then Safari will translate it for you into the correct character code if it exists. Unfortunately ISO-8859-1 only has 255 characters while Unicode has thousands and can cover all modern and many archaic languages. $¢£¥

Well.......you guys can try and remember all those codes if you want. But.....since I don't use them that often those codes would take up too much valuable space in this old head. So........for me it's much easier to just copy and paste. It works for me and no clutter in the old head.

[Plymouthy Adams]

as the man only asked about one special character..I don't see a whole heck of a lot to have to remember...

[Norm's Coupe]

as the man only asked about one special character..I don't see a whole heck of a lot to have to remember...

Yes but Tim, when you get to be as young as I am:D , you don't try to store information you don't use that often. You just want to store and retain the fun things.

[Don Coatney]

Yes but Tim' date=' when you get to be as young as I am:D , you don't try to store information you don't use that often. You just want to store and retain the fun things.[/quote']

Norm;

Apparently your fun thing storage system is not working. Otherwise you would remember how much fun it is to drive past the end of the driveway and past 50 miles away from home:rolleyes:

[Norm's Coupe]

Norm;

Apparently your fun thing storage system is not working. Otherwise you would remember how much fun it is to drive past the end of the driveway and past 50 miles away from home:rolleyes:

Actually Don, I don't drive any car unless I absolutely have to. I don't consider driving fun. It's just a necessity of life to get from point A to point B and back when I have to. It's like going out to eat and staying in hotels. Did too much of that in my lifetime and it stopped being fun a long time ago.