Date:         Mon, 6 Dec 2004 13:43:51 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Spence <dkspence@TELUS.NET>
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From:         Don Spence <dkspence@TELUS.NET>
Subject:      Re: 130 mph in a vanagon
In-Reply-To:  <20041206200409.FGJ23265.priv-edtnes44.telusplanet.net@gerry.vanagon.com>
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Yeh... and another thing. At that speed, that last odometer digit to
the right would be spinning so fast it would be blurred. : >
On Monday, December 6, 2004, at 12:58  PM, Automatic digest processor
wrote:

> Subject: Re: 130mph in a vanagon
>
> At 05:35 AM 12/6/2004, you wrote:
>> look at the pics eric D took of his speedo/tach while in motion:
>>
>> http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1642504&page=2
>>
>> ps, his van is subaru wrx sti powered..
>> chris
>
> Sure looks to me like the needle is resting on the peg. Take a look at
> the
> shadows cast from the dash lighting. The poster claimed it went all
> the way
> around and PAST the peg, but anyone who 's ever taken a speedo apart
> knows
> that's not possible. Even if it was, what do you think the odds are
> that
> you'd end up snapping a picture while the needle was EXACTLY where it
> would
> also be if you were driving 0 mph? Someone is telling a fish story
> there.
>
> John Bange
> '90 Vanagon "Geldsauger"
>