On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 11:32:42AM -0500, Bob Ammerman wrote:
> >>Unusable top speed?
> >>http://www.bright.net/~agarb/Speed.jpg  (300kb)
> >>
> 
> BTW: this image shows the speedo buried, but the tach is only at a bit 
> over 3K. Is this for real? What kind of gear/axle ratio does this thing 
> have anyway?

Actually the real scary thing is that someone is actually taking a picture
of a dash with a vehicle going 125+ MPH.

> 
> IIRC my Taurus SHO, which (theoretically) could bury the needle on a 
> 130MPH speedo (I never went faster than about 105) would be turning near 
> redline at that speed.

I don't remember that with my 1989 SHO. Of course I had the 5 speed so
maybe that 5th speed overdrive had the gear ratio to handle it.

I push that vehicle once in my younger days on a 470 mile trip from New
Orleans to Atlanta. I made it in 5.5 hours flat door to door. I found
it was smooth up to about 125 MPH and vibrated a bit after that.

And people wonder why under 25 year old umarried males with no kids have 
such high insurance rates...

BAJ
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