Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 23:14:19 +0100 From: Jay <jaynopsamaala.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: driving without muffler bad for engine?
>On Thu, 05 Oct 2000 20:13:10 GMT, jw <johnwebster1nopsamhlink.net> wrote: >Kai-ming Mei wrote: >> >> Your car will be louder than ANYTHING on the street. At the very least >> leave your windows down so you can experience a little bit of the major >> irritation that other people sharing the streets will feel. > >Yeah the way people's heads spun around as I approached, >accelerating up urban hills, was pretty amusing. It's a 1984 900 S >hatchback, kind of scruffy looking, brown with a Thule roof rack. It >looks like an urban assault vehicle and unmuffled it sounds like one >too. People would stop in their tracks and put their fingers in >their ears, or furrow their brows, shake their heads...I was a real >nuisance. Of course I kept my windows open, I didn't want to get >asphixiated after all, and I reveled in the din I was causing. > >The novelty quickly wore off though and I had it fixed. > >My entire neighborhood is grateful! And mine too, it was a real shocker when it went. "What's the hell's that ?" I thought, then realisation dawned..... Cringe material.