RE: Notchy shifter

[Alexxi <alexxi@magma.ca>]

I found driving at 150 + mph was a mix between exhilarating and scaring the
crap out of me. Though I wanted to , there was no way in hell I would try
to take a picture at that speed.  Its amazing how tunnel vision sets in, I
would do it in the middle lanes of a 4 lane highway and it felt like I was
going down a narrow lane way. 

Anyone seen the footage of that guy in Japan who video'd his top speed run
in an F-40 ? It was unreal to see his speedometer pull hard even past 300
kpm (180 mph) He sold 10,000 copies before Tokyo's finest caught up to him.




At 04:56 PM 10/21/99 -0700, you wrote:
>At 5:30 PM -0600 10/21/99, Chadwick, John/COR/INV wrote:
>>I have a picture of it on my computer. E-mail me directly if you want to see
>>it. I've met the guy personally.
>
>Anyone driving 151mph better not have time to take a photograph of 
>the speedo, so proof of a photograph isn't all that believable in 
>this day of digital photo retouching (shoot I've taken people out of 
>pictures before). And finally, even if the speedo did show 151 mph, 
>the car was probably really going 145 or lower. The speedo's in our 
>A3's tend to overexaggerate the speed at which we're going.
>
>A better gauge of speed is the trip computer's average speed 
>indicator when reset at speed. It typically shows speeds anywhere 
>between 1 and 7mph slower (the slower the faster you are going).
>
>-Khan
>