Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to The BEST Australian Car Chase Movies" video.

  1. The old Valiant Charger was quite a car to drive. In my case I had one for a fortnight, lent by my manager, while my tiny Suzuki Jimmny LJ50 with tiny 3 cyl 540 cc 33hp two stroke waited on a spare part after the dealership stripped the oil drain plug of the transfer case at a regular service. The Charger was a second hand NSW Police Highway Patrol car, which was obtained at the regular auction after a few years, as these patrol cars were regularly updated. They had 450kg lead plates in the rear, for much better road handling compared to empty at which state had bad road handling and tyre spin issues with high power and high speed cornering. Wow the difference to the puny 33hp of my vehicle, not that I had issues having learned driving on a Holden with good power too. My route to work each day was about 25 km down and up from and through a local gorge lots of hair pin bends but also plenty opportunity for putting the foot down. On picking up my own vehicle, on first acceleration in that I though I missed putting it in gear, almost no go as engine reved up, was in gear and 1st gear was so low ratio that 1st to 2nd was at mere 3 to 5 kph, and little sensation of acceleration after two weeks of kick in the pants take-off in the Charger. Bright Orsnge monster compared to my little Yellow Suzuki. Over the years have as part of my work, fuel injection application design and testing driven many vehicle types from tiny Taiwan and China mini trucks definitely not for tall or larger body people, to Turbo & Sports European vehicles, to typical family mid and full size sedans, to luxury brands including Porsche, Lamborgini, Jaguar, Mercedes. Even some smaller trucks. Even had opportunity to drive a De Lorean development car, after that company collapsed, leaving unpayed project costs and abandoning the test car. It was ultimately used for rescue practice by the company & village Fire brigade team, using "Jaw of Life" etc to cut up snd tear apart the entire car to a pile of scrap metal. A real shame, I would think it could have had sale value, even though not street legal as it was prototype level so no conformance to all legal standards. Maybe a Movie prop for example, like in 'Back to the Future' for example a use, but no a pile of scrap metal only. Sadly Ferrari which in two cases I had access to, required a six month training at Ferrari to be allowed to drive their test vehicles, so missed driving one but got to sit in that, and even do fitment work for electronics.
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