Date:         Tue, 7 Dec 2004 10:38:46 -0600
Reply-To:     Bruce Nadig <motorbruce@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bruce Nadig <motorbruce@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: 130 mph in a vanagon
Comments: To: wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET
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Yeah, when I got my Porsch 911 powerer Vanagon up to 112mph I was getting
close to Death Wish Country. Of course, had there not been traffic in front
of me, I would have kept pushing to go faster, after all, I was only in 4th
gear (out of 5) using a Porsche gear box.

Cheers,
Bruce
motorbruce
motorbruce@hotmail.com



>From: Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
>Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: 130 mph in a vanagon
>Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 15:52:24 -0600
>
>I'm trying to get this fellow with the 130 mph Vanagon set up to go on the
>Dr. Phil Show.
>He says he's never had anybody on with a death wish and this fellow might
>be
>entertaining.
>
>Stan Wilder
>Engine Ceramics
>214-352-4931
>www.engineceramics.com
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kim Brennan" <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
>To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 3:24 PM
>Subject: Re: 130 mph in a vanagon
>
>
> > At 120mph (just a little slower) you are doing a mile every 30 seconds.
> > That means the 1/10 digit should rotate 1 digit every 3 seconds. The
> > shutter speed on most digital cameras is  less than 1 second. That is
> > sufficiently fast so that the digit wouldn't be blurred.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Dec 6, 2004, at 3:43 PM, Don Spence wrote:
> >
> > > Yeh... and another thing. At that speed, that last odometer digit to
> > > the right would be spinning so fast it would be blurred. : >
> >
> >
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