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Date:         Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:16:52 -0700
Reply-To:     Steven P Smith <kewsps@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From:         Steven P Smith <kewsps@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Is it possible to speed in a 84 Westy w/ 1.9 engine?
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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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