alpert@nanook.DEC (03/05/85)
The discussion on big-block engines vs. fours is quite interesting. It is a classic example of the inverse relationship between the size of the engine in one's car and the brain in one's head. (Corvette drivers: `inverse relationship' means that if the first thingie is bigger then the second thingie is smaller.) I of course drive a car with a 360cc two-cylinder 20hp engine and have a brain the size of a planet. :-) Of far more importance is the skill of the driver behind the wheel. All that is proven when the driver of a car with a large engine indulges in infantile and dangerous `street racing' is that he has a large engine, small brain, and lead foot. Put them on a race track with others in comparably equipped cars and see what happens! (Put a 'vette or Porsche driver in a 20hp Subaru 360 and I'm sure I can drive rings around him myself!) Who needs even 100hp... On Both Cylinders, Bob Alpert ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-nanook!alpert