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From: eli@cvl.UUCP (Eli Liang)
Newsgroups: net.auto.tech
Subject: Re: speedo's (was steam clean)
Message-ID: <1080@cvl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 31-Dec-85 11:16:50 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 31 11:16:50 1985
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Organization: Computer Vision Lab, U. of Maryland, College Park
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In article <1069@homxb.UUCP> gemini@homxb.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes:
>mikey writes:
>> The law went off the books about 1981 (I think!) but it's taken till now
>> for the fast speedos to show up on cars again.  The '85 corvette
>> had a +85 speedo.
>The analog speedo only goes to 85, but the digital one keeps following
>my foot all the way to the floor...

Interestingly enough, a couple of friends and I rented a 1985 Thunderbird
(with a non-turboed V6) for a trip.  This car had a digital speedo with
two modes, mph and kph.  The mph scale refused to go beyond 85 mph, but
after some experimentation, we determined that the other scale went up to
at least 198 kph.

-eli
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