I don't know where your engine puts out it maximum torque, but perhaps with your gearing and engine, your motor is at max torque at the lower speed.

NAM VET, back from a nice day at the beach here in SC.

sorry about your road incident, but I suspect the car that hit you was damaged a Lot More! Best wishes for you repair or upgrade.

Late Dec, '69, I was about to be picked up by a chopper and sent out with one SGT to a Vietnamese compound way out in the Plane of Reeds, not far from the Cambodian border. These advisory missions were usually about a week long, and since this one was going to be over the new year, I decided to take...

Way down south of Camau, along the edge of the U MInh forest, where Lt. Nick Rowe was held as a POW for five years, and later CPT Rocky Versace was awarded the MOH, and my interpreter Son, had been on the helicopter that picked him up (they did not machine gun him because Nick had a beard, and Vietn...

My father in law, going off to war from a farm in south east Nebraska, was sent as part of the 32nd Infantry Division first to Australia, then to New Guinea before they were sent across the Owen Stanley Range to take Buna back from the Japanese. He was one of the few troops to have a camera, and my ...

Yes, the battle for Buna, with the Aussie's was something else. Perhaps some of the worst conditions our Pacific troops had to fight in WWII. My father in law was a BAR man, but that gun was not reliable in the mud, so he changed to an M1 Garand. His company went into the line with something like 15...

In my 30 year army career, starting in the summer of '69 (I just love the song by that name), after graduating from Nebraska via ROTC, and an 18 month tour as a Platoon Leader, 3D Infantry Division, where my transportation was an M113 APC, I was posted to IV Corps, Vietnam, or the Mekong Delta. Firs...

Ater having one sort or another high performance or sports car since the mid '60's, I decided to sell my Porsche GT3 and just go in a different direction. I have always liked the vintage military vehicles, and have some experience with them since I spent 30 years in the army, Vietnam and Desert Stor...