thursday, September 25, 1975
daily nebraskan
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Pit Stop
Doit-yourself tune-uoscan help car's gas mileage
By Jim Williams ,
With all the weird complaints in this
paper's letters to the editor section, it's
nice to read an intelligent one by someone
who knows shat he's talking about-even
if I'm the target.
William E. SpeeceY tetter Wednesday
must be the penalty for writing a column
at 3 a.m.
I didn't write the headline for last
week's piece, and didn't mean to imply
that wicked politicians wers tampering
with the county's bridges-only that some
hadn't yet been inspected because the
money wasn't available. I warned others
not to use the bridge in the contest notice,
because I realize that what's safe for me to
do once in a one-ton sport scar isn't safe
for someone in a ten-ton truck to do every
day. ; "
The bridge analogy was a bad one. The
point of the column was that not all safety
decisions- are made by experts such as
Associate Professor Speece. Some, like the
air bag rule, are wholly political-and my
thoughts on that remain unchanged.
Suggestion to the Roads Dept.-why not
block off those weak bridges so nuts hke
me can't use them at all? Some people
don't read signs.
Laurel leaves
Three more Czechburg-finders reported
in too late for last week's column. So
congratulations to Kent Pearson, Jayne
Polacek and Lynn Crandall.
Lynn Crandall's note had a comment:
"You guys aren't helping the fuel crisis
-especially mine-very much."
True, motor sports use more gas than
sitting home watching Kojak-but you
.enthusiastic readers can do something
about it. The hot tip for good mileage is
a tune-up.
A tune-up covers minor adjustments
that keep an engine at top efficiencyr You
can pay a garage to do it every six months,
but on older cars it's easy enough to try
yourself. 75 and 76 models are more
difficult because of their smog controls.
But wait, you cry, I can hardly find the
engine. That's where a good book comes
in.
Hip car tips
Coma, by David Rosenblum (Harper
& Row, $455) is such a book. Rosenblum
first taught auto repair in a meadow in
Woodstock, N.Y., so you can imagine his
writing is hip and flip as hip and flip as
one can be about breaker points, anyhow.
To really learn from this book, you
should actually do everything it says
right down to groping in your toilet tank
to learn about carburetors. If you follow
through, youll learn to do a good tune
up and fix some common troubles.
Local bookstores- usually haye Carma
and another good one, Most Miles per
Gallon bv Dick OTCane. Read and learn.
, ' Mileage and myth
Once you can tune your car, you can
defend yourself against those who say
"motor sports waste gas." The enthusiast's
car is likely to be more efficient and better
tuned than the average car. In fact, motor
sports . consume less fuel than sporting
activities such as i cations, football and
baseball. Of big-league sports, only golf
uses less.
But I'm not advocating carelessness. Jf
I couldn't get another, I wouldn't trade
my ten-speed bike for a Ferrari.
Stranger than truth
Finally, I have an event to announce,
but it's weird. The "Trans-Nebraska
Open" is a sort of statewide 980-mile
scavenger hunt and endurance test, planned
for Thanksgiving break (Nov. 2o-Dec,l)
Its organizers insist on anonymity-I had to
interview cne in a shower but you can
write TNO, 1217 Love Hall, 540 No. 16th
St., for information. .,
"Our entrants don't feel the Trans
Nebraska is illegal-merely that it's
impossible," said one organizer. You can't
say you weren't warned.
sports "SilflS
Two UNL women's Softball players have
been awarded scholarships for 1975-76,
announced softball coach Myreen Loveless.
Julie Marie Geis, a senior from Beaver
Crossing, Neb., and Paula Pritchard, dsophj
bmore from Falls City, Neb., were awardea
tuition and fees scholarships.
Geis and Pritchard are the only women
to r receive softball scholarships, this year
Loveless said.
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