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So that's what the F stands for. I thought it was Fahrenheit, or as we pronounce it up here 'Luddite'. 
I think Paul is being quite kind by converting real degrees (C) into F knowing that you guys enjoy being the last civilized country on earth to still use the system. There again, you guys have those weird mini-gallons that no one else on earth uses.
Was that the rant you were looking for?
Or was it the one about the windshield factor myth again?
I think Paul is being quite kind by converting real degrees (C) into F knowing that you guys enjoy being the last civilized country on earth to still use the system. There again, you guys have those weird mini-gallons that no one else on earth uses.
Was that the rant you were looking for?
Or was it the one about the windshield factor myth again?
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So that's what the F stands for. I thought it was Fahrenheit, or as we pronounce it up here 'Luddite'.
I think Paul is being quite kind by converting real degrees (C) into F knowing that you guys enjoy being the last civilized country on earth to still use the system. There again, you guys have those weird mini-gallons that no one else on earth uses.
Was that the rant you were looking for?
Or was it the one about the windshield factor myth again?
I think Paul is being quite kind by converting real degrees (C) into F knowing that you guys enjoy being the last civilized country on earth to still use the system. There again, you guys have those weird mini-gallons that no one else on earth uses.
Was that the rant you were looking for?
Or was it the one about the windshield factor myth again?
Whatever, I just barely passed the stats course in university so cannot engage in that debate.
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It's not just the mini-gallon or Fake temperature scale:
Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Everybody confused now?
Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Everybody confused now?
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St. Jude Donor '13-'14
It's not just the mini-gallon or Fake temperature scale: Video Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and_US_custom ary_measurement_systems Everybody confused now?
To keep this thread in track, I think that your car as a whole is rarer than Mike Ward accepting American units. But we can at least agree that -40°F is frickin freezing!
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OK, over and out for this evening. Some 4,629 convertibles in 1975 and some 5,474 in 1974. Does it really matter how many are left? And I have one of those 1974s convertibles? I don't care. It is just a nice rubber bumper that no one wants, except me. Fun car.
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St. Jude Donor '13-'14
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It's not just the mini-gallon or Fake temperature scale:
Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Everybody confused now?
Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Everybody confused now?
Paul, curious about your Cruz, my C6ZO6 has a full metric capabilities.
Pete
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My winter beater only displays metric or US.
Oh wait- you kept most of them. How strange. Not even the British use most of them today.
I was brought up on the Imperial system (like Paul) but dropped it the day metric came out.
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I remember those Imperial gallons, I had an early 50s (no year models for our British cousinss in those days) XK120 Jaguar. Mix and match, SAE and Whitworth. And Imperial measurements for fuel, oil, etc. Fun stuff for a young guy with a car that kept him digging into his nearly empty wallet.
Pete
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Well, once upon a time a great number of us all came from the British Isles. Many of our inventions come from there too. We (on this contenent) did abandon the British way and decided to drive on the right side of road. This is not an argument or pi$$ing match
Pete
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Brisk? Yes. The windchill will be -33*F tomorrow. I saw -50*F when I lived in the Yukon many moons ago. Heh, it's Canada. Strangely you get used to it. Even the block heater on my 2013 Cruze is programmed NOT to work until 0*F. I can't even find the plug but I am not worried about it. That car starts right up at these temps. Cute little grocery-getter.
Film at 11 (that part isn't metric).
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St. Jude Donor '13-'14
Pauls' weather forecast was almost spot on. The static temp right now is -20*C with a windshield factor of -32*C. This evening the static temp will go down to -26*C but the windshields will only think it's -34 since the winds will drop from 25km/hr to 10km/hr.
Film at 11 (that part isn't metric).
Film at 11 (that part isn't metric).
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grocery getter .....cause about three or four bags is all that will fit in the back with soft top,folded in.
I believe I d put the top UP ....-20F is a little too brisk for me
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He also insisted that the expression was 'for all intensive purposes', frequently used the word 'irregardless' and pronounced aluminum as 'malunimum'.
He didn't last too long.
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Windshield factor - I like that.
By the way, regarding the metric system, at the end of World War II, 2 countries were using the metric system, one was conquered and the other lost. Funny how that works.
Another funny thing, the European aircraft industry insists that everything be designed and built to metric dimensions - BUT, they use inch series bolts and nuts! Huh?