Semi OT: Car confusion - RU86'd

[treed2 at wsu.edu (T. Reed)]

Uh, it's RU-486.. like the CPU!

-Toby

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Don Walter wrote:

> Does anyone know where the term 86-it came from.  It comes from the part number of the pill (RU86) to kill unborn babies.
>
> RU86 = Are you dead? killed? expired? etc...
>
> Just makes me think twice about using that term.  I don't mean to offend anyone or say that we shouldn't use it, but place some perspective of the origin.
>
> Don
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Toomasson <jtoomasson@yahoo.com>
> Sent: Dec 3, 2003 3:44 PM
> To: Michael Keogh <mkeogh@e-autobusiness.com>, scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: Semi OT: Car confusion
>
> I think the Cutlass is for pulling the scirocco, but I would agree with
> 86-ing it altogether!  :p
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Keogh" <mkeogh@e-autobusiness.com>
> To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 1:34 PM
> Subject: RE: Semi OT: Car confusion
>
>
> Rhett-
>
> If you don't mind me asking; after parting out your Scirocco, how much
> cash will you have to play with?
>
> I think you should forget autocrossing a Cutlass.
>
> -Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rhett Farnum [mailto:rocco_crossing@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 4:29 PM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Semi OT: Car confusion
>
>
>
> Over Thanksgiving break my parents brought to my attention that I really
>
> have no money left to play. I really want to keep autoXing but the
> Cutlass
> would take a lot of time and hard work to get to handle decent. As most
> of
> you know by now my rocco is in many pieces as I am parting it out. (need
> any
> parts? email me!!)
>
> Here are a few options I have come up with.
>
> 1. Keep my rocco, fix the holes in it roughly, drop my spare 1.7L in it,
> put
> it on a trailer and run it race only.
>
> 2. finish parting the rocco and dump the money into the Cutlass to make
> it
> look nice and handle a littel better.
>
> 3. Finish parting out the rocco and sell the cutlass and find something
> that
> I can use for both street and autoX, more in a stock class.
>
> I like option 1 the most simply because it keeps one more rocco around
> for
> longer. I know in the long run it may cost me more because I would like
> to
> get a truck to pull the trailer instead of the Cutlass, but I think it
> would
> also be the most fun.
>
>
> Peace Out,
> Rhett
> Rocco_crossing
> '83 Rocco (DEAD!!) :-(
>
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