quattro digest, Vol 1 #3217 - Driving(riding) at Speed, 4K shift li ght

[l.leung at juno.com]

The fastest I've ever BEEN in a car was 127 indicated in a '79 5.0 Mustang =
with an owner added Doug Nash 5 sp, in 5th gear. Actually, it wasn't indica=
ted, it had to be calculated by me in the passenger seat.  It was actually =
quite stable from my side of the car. We were racing an Old's Cutlass 442 o=
n I-495 just outside of Lynn, MA, and it did pass us JUST as the road narro=
wed from 4 lanes to 2. We even had to dodge a "slow" moving pick-em up truc=
k in our lane after the olds passed us, no real drama except the tremendous=
 (probably 70 MPH) closing speed. From the ramp, we did get our doors blown=
 off by our friend's 5.7 liter Camaro (the big old 2nd gen one, probably '7=
7 or '78 and modded) but he ran out of gear at 115....

As for the shift light, if worse comes to worse, since it's easy to get to =
the instrument panel in a 4K, (undo the screws to the "hood", pull out/up) =
just pull the stupid bulb. Problem solved.

LL - NY