campigloo wrote:
Mike, I'm feeling a real need to "test drive" the Grand Prix up that mountain.
It's more of a hill. ;) There are lots of other places in Washington that would be more fun to drive a fast car than Vantage hill. Funny short story about that hill, many years ago I towed a little 18' Prowler travel trailer with a new F250 with the EFI460, pretty much the hardest pulling motor on the market at the time along with the TBI 454 in the GM trucks. 95 degrees, 30 mph headwind and I decided to see how fast I could pull the 3500 pound Prowler up the hill. I pulled it at 65 the whole way, actually passing a few older pickups that weren't towing anything. At the top of the hill I found I had used 1/3 of my front tank in 10 miles, which works out to about 1.8 mpg!