Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:35:11 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to speed in a 84 Westy w/ 1.9 engine?
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Those speed camera things have been discontinued in AZ I believe.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven P Smith" <kewsps@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: Is it possible to speed in a 84 Westy w/ 1.9 engine?
Certainly is Kafkaesque . . . especially the notion that everyone thinks
themselves guilty. Wonder what a cop would have done in your situation.
Probably would have passed you and kept going. Oops, its not friday!
Guilty!
> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:27:52 -0700
> From: rjkinpb@SBCGLOBAL.NET
> Subject: Re: Is it possible to speed in a 84 Westy w/ 1.9 engine?
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
> Yeah, me too in an 85 Vanagon hardtop with a 1.9 east of Payson, Arizona.
> Photo speed trap. In the afternoon on the way eastward everyone (locals)
> started slowing down as we approached it; alas, then next morning on the
> westward trip it was early (6 am), no cars at all on the road, a little
> groggy perhaps so I forgot about the speed trap and didn't notice a thing
> until the cameras flashed....doh!!! Guess I was in a hurry to get to
> Phoenix that morning, and it was downhill, so 55 in a 45 zone. Guilty!!
> Nice souvenir photos of the front and rear of my van. Arizona locals hate
> those photo speed traps I've been told.
>
> Rich
> San Diego
>
> --- On Thu, 10/13/11, Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
>
> From: Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
> Subject: Is it possible to speed in a 84 Westy w/ 1.9 engine?
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Thursday, October 13, 2011, 9:06 AM
>
> Yes it is!
> Got a speeding ticket this am on the way to woik. Clocked @ 43 mph in a
> 30 mph zone after a 2 block startup from a right hand turn. Motorcycle
> cop w/ a radar gun on the side of a busy 1 way road w/ 4-5 lanes.
> When he asked if I knew how fast I was going, I demurred, saying afterall
> I was in a VW Bus & couldn't possibly be speeding.
> But NOOOOOOO!
> I behaved myself, as The spousal Unit was in the car, taking her to work
> after dropping her Audi off for a new head gasket among other issues(
> 199,000 miles), & he wrote it up for only 5 over.
> I think he felt guilty giving someone in a VW Bus a speeding ticket, & he
> should have!
>
> YMMV,
>
> Mr. BZ-thot I was immune
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