TodFitch Posted July 20, 2014 Author Report Posted July 20, 2014 at least you were able to drive your car to an area, get out and go hiking., get back in and drive home...chebbie owners take their car out for a ride and have to hike back.... Tour from San Jose to Watsonville and back today (about 70 miles round trip) was led by a '23 Chevy touring. Four cylinder engine with the original block but a '28 head on it and even running the original vacuum tank fuel "pump". I was pretty impressed, in a positive sense, with how well it ran especially up over Hecker Pass which has some reasonably steep grades. He mentioned that the vacuum tank fuel system was pretty good and that it only gave issue on very long steep upgrades like when he drove it up Pikes Peak recently. I was also pretty impressed, in a negative sense, when a traffic signal changed in front of him and his two wheel mechanical brakes were insufficient. He locked up rear passenger wheel with no great effect on his speed and he had to make a quick, marginally legal, turn to avoid going into the intersection. Glad I was allowing sufficient room that I could be a spectator instead of potentially involved with the situation and also glad that I had hydraulically equalized four wheel brakes. Quote
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