On (20 Apr 95) Bill Grimsley wrote to Dieter Mirbach...



 BG> Dieter, at 22:54 on Wed, Apr 19 1995, you wrote to Bob Lawrence ...



 BL> That car is in its prime, like me. I drove all the way from keith's at 

 BL> Berowra in 26 minutes the other night, and I never once went over

 BG> 160Ks. 



 DM> It couldn't crack a ton if it tried, much like it's owner :-) 



 BG> It could actually (very cruel and hurtful, BTW).



 DM> These days, the only thing you could crack would be the 

 DM> perforation on a piece of toilet paper :-)



 BG> Most speedos are purposely made to read 6%-10% fast at 100km/h, to

 BG> compensate for increased tyre diameters due to centrifugal force at that

 BG> speed (I used to work for Speedscreen Services several years ago,

 BG> calibrating and repairing all manner of instruments), but for some reason,

 BG> the speedo in my VL reads 1% low at 100km/h (verified by a copper friend

 BG> who was calibrating police speedos via radar some time ago), and it's hard

 BG> to remember that unlike most others, I don't have the psychological

 BG> advantage of being able to drive with impunity at indicated speeds in

 BG> excess of the limit (already been booked twice because of this too).



back in the old days, when coppers had to follow you for some distance

to book you, instead of getting an instantaneous reading on a radar, the

law was, in the uk, that he had to check his tyre pressures and record

whether they were in tolerance. it was a nifty little let out for those

who knew of it, cos' the cops rarely bothered to.



 BG> That said, I once took the VL (bog-standard 3.0l Nissan EFI 6) to an

 BG> indicated 210km/h, but that was on the 1st Moonbi Hill, 10km north of

 BG> Tamworth, which is a 4-lane divided bypass of the old winding road, is dead

 BG> straight for 5km, and has a downhill incline of around 10ø-15ø.  I could

 BG> have wound it up even more, but it started to feel decidedly unsafe once it

 BG> reached 200km/h.  Lyn was with me at the time, and boy, was she pissed at

 BG> me!  The word "fuckwit" comes immediately to mind.   |-)



i am reliably informed that there is a straight bit of road just south

of gympie where twin cam corollas have been seen doing speeds in excess

of 190k/h (from the tacho)   (:



                        Keith



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