Re: [Amc-list] A toy for Traveller (camper time!)

[Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, but you're gonna be hauling your trailer with a 1963 AMC brick.  I don't think you're gonna save much gas by streamlining something that's gonna be in turbulent air behind the brick.   I can understand how the wide trailer behind a Prius could benefit from streamlining though.

Joe Fulton


--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Amc-list] A toy for Traveller (camper time!)
> To: "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans." <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 10:45 AM
> Tom Jennings wrote:
> 
> > Since the Prius has all that technology, he was able
> to gain nearly 5 
> > MPG improvement by building a streamline nose for the
> trailer.
> 
> Oops, I didn't say how -- trial and error, cruising on
> the same highway 
> with mods to the trailer and reading out the Prius'
> on-board information 
> display, that gives instantaneous and average fuel
> consumption, etc.
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