Let's talk about TORQUE

-- OR -- PONTIAC is Gone, Gone, Gone, Kaputz, Belly Up 
Gripe by Pat Darnell

Do you realize how much torque is involved in playing a horn or a woodwind? Moving concentrated flow of air through a well tuned instrument is the origin of much torque in our gadgetry.

And torque was at one time noticeable in your Pontiac or buick when you leapt off the line from the make-believe Christmas tree which really were the stop and go lights at Main and Congress Avenue.

There is a specific roar when slippage is added up throughout your vehicle to make it lift off, sometimes with too much horse power, on to its right rear tire, in a hyperbolic paraboloid steam thrust...? Eh? anyone familiar with this?

If you know it, believe me you are always sure of it and how it moves a enormous machine into locomotion, perambulation, or ambulation. Torque is beautiful.