SAAB 900 in "The Bottle Deposit"

You can't "suck a muffin down the carburetor" of a SAAB 900. It has no carburetor, because it's fuel injected.

He's also elated because the car in the "morgue" is a turbo-- and he tells the cop his car wasn't a turbo..

The problem is: all SAAB 900 convertibles have turbos. The convertibles are much heavier than the hardtops and need the added grunt.

I know you'd think the hardtop would weigh more, but the mechanism and the motors that lift and retract the roof actually weigh more than a hardtop.

[email] wrote:

I just noticed an interesting synchronicity----your post sounds reminiscent of what the Marisa Tomei character testified to in "My Cousin Vinny", both of whom/which were prominent just 6 episodes earlier in "The Cadillac". Too bad they couldn't work a tie-in somehow.

Rerics

One of the great court room lines (next to - handling the truth)

"You see where the left tire mark goes up on the curb and the right tire mark stays flat and even? Well, the '64 Skylark had a solid rear axle, so when the left tire would go up on the curb, the right tire would tilt out and ride along its edge. But that didn't happen here. The tire mark stayed flat and even. This car had an independent rear suspension. Now, in the '60's, there were only two other cars made in America that had positraction, and independent rear suspension, and enough power to make these marks. One was the Corvette, which could never be confused with the Buick Skylark. The other had the same body length, height, weight, wheel base, and wheel track as the '64 Skylark, and that was the 1963 Pontiac Tempest."

On Thu, 04 May 2006 22:15:13 -0400, "TheNewsGuy(Mike)" wrote:

Is that statement about the automobiles true? I hope it is.

Do you know tose lines by heart? I think I do, from having seen "Cousin Vinnie" so many times. MT is sooo beautiful and totally charming.

Lars Stockholm

And it is generally known that she likes short, stocky bald guys, with a quirky sense of humor.

Nana

You're making me jealous. I'm gonna think you like her more than you like me.

Rerics

[email] wrote in news:1146782481.119932.106510 @j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

The convertibles actually *need* to weigh more. With the difference in the center of gravity in the car, manufacturers actually *make* them heavier to keep them from rolling over in side collision accidents.

And they don't really need any extra grunt. The motor isn't that heavy, you can hold it easily in one hand...possibly less than five pounds. The roof mechanism isn't that heavy either. If putting 4 200 pound men in your car doesn't make it handle any different, a twenty pound roof and motor isn't either.

Early 90s converible Chevy Camaros actually had more restrictive speed limiters than their hard-topped counterparts because of the center of gravity issues, and it was thought they were more suceptible to rollovers at high speeds.

On 4 May 2006 15:41:21 -0700, [email] wrote:

I've understood that the reason a convertible weighs more is because in a sedan/hardtop/etc. the roof contributes a considerable amount of strength to the vehicle. When there is no roof there needs to be a whole lot of bracing, filleting, and general beef elsewhere to make up for no roof. That's extra weight.

LRod wrote in news:[email]:

Correct. Convertibles have all kinds of extra crossmembers and bracing underneath. The roof is actually what holds a uni-body car together.

"elaich" wrote in message news:[email]...

OK, so when Jerry was buying one of these cars from Puddy in a much maligned episode, the dialog could have gone:

Puddy: Crossmembers, bracing, filleting. Jerry: Filleting? Puddy: How you're gonna hold the car together?

Er

"Er" wrote in message news:[email]...

maligned

what would a grease monkey know about structural matters of cars?

rob

On Sat, 6 May 2006 20:40:01 +1200, "George.com" wrote:

We don't like that term. I don't know a monkey who can rebuild a carburetor.

"LRod" wrote in message news:[email]...

I have seen a few grease monkeys struggle with that as well.

rob

wrote in message news:[email]...

yeah but you haven't factored in cutting the top off the muffin leaving only the stump to be sucked down.

rob