RE: Only 3! WAS; how many damn gears???

From: Jon Steiger (stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 30 1998 - 21:30:30 EDT


[...]
> Hey Robert,
>
> The funniest speedo I have ever seen was the one in my Shelby Charger.
> It went to 80! Course I could wrap it around back to zero but never
> really knew exactly how fast I was going.
>
> Fast enough. <grin>
>

 
   For a few years, there was some regulation that said that domestic
cars couldn't have speedometers that go higher than 85mph, which is why
many domestic cars from that time period (80's-early 90's?) only have
85mph speedos.

  That may be why yours only went to 80...

                                              -Jon-

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