Re: Whee!

["Luke D. Vinogradov" <Luke.VINOGRADOV@ENG.monash.edu.au>]

On 14 Dec 95 at 21:22, Thomas Tornblom wrote:

> 220. The last I saw of him was when I passed him on a slight uphill
> with the tach at 6k flat, and the speedo at 240. The pedal was still
> not on the floor! The boost gauge showed around 1.7 - 1.8.
> 
> Boy, these are real adrenaline kicks! If I hadn't had ears my head
> would have fallen off from the all around smile ;-) ;-)
> 
> I have a goal, I shall at least once peg the speedo at the end of the
> scale, 260. This is past redline on the tach. It may already manage
> this. I still haven't gotten it to the top speed.

Well, good luck to you.  Perhaps VTI will be studying your exploits 
in upcoming crash data analyses.  Make an error at those kind of 
speeds on roads that were not designed for them and you might end 
sans ears, head etc.  Or someone else might.

$0.02  Call me boring if you want...

Luke

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