Are nullzor and porsche attending the same typing courses?

(grin).

 

I believe this is part of the "retro" look. I'm pretty sure that the speedometers in the mustangs from the mid 60's only went to 140. Since Ford went retro with the look of the dials, I suspect they used 140 to match the original look as closely as possible. I'll have to look at my brother's 66 this weekend and see what it has.

Disclaimer: I have not looked at a 67/68 dash in quite a while, so my memory could be failing me.

 

yeah you are right my 66 goes up to 140mph....

 

Back in the 80's gauges only went up to about 85 to discourage people from going speeds in excess of that number. The number on the dial means nothing until the needle is on it.

 

On a side note, my E-150 van has a speedo reading of 85...it has been pinned to that many times on road trips and I'm sure passed the indicated reading many times...

 

140, 160, 180, 200, 300, mach 10, super luminal, warp 10, coexsisting at all points in the universe at the same time crazy fast....

Its just a gimick... I'm sure the price or rice of the car has something to do with the upper limit of the speedo.

 

if it went higher than 140 it would be even harder to read

 

What is the speed rating on the GT tires?

 

They always try to put the top sped limit straight up on the meter. Can you remember when it was 55 and it was almost straight up?

 

z-rated. 149+ mph.

 

149+ should be ok on the drive to work!

 

How in the world did you take that picture going 95!

 

How in the world did you take that picture going 95! [/b][/quote]
And you might want to check your oil. . . . .

The Boss Hog

 

Your right about not being able to read the Speedo if it went any higher. That thing is hard enough to read without cramming in more numbers.

 

Back to the drag race.......

I raced a near stock 2002 last week with the laoner GT the dealership loaned me, till my car came in. It had about 1700 miles on it and ran STRONG!

Anyhoo.... his car has intake, headers/exhaust and possibly gears. He said it was good for 13.60's. I'm not used to the clutch for a good launch yet, being a new car with a hydraulic clutch, so he took me out of the hole. I had my G-tech going while we raced so I could estemate a track race. He pulled me at first but at the top of 3rd, I started to creep on him. By the end of 4th I had pulled him and the G-Tech started flashing. It was such a close race and he may have beet me in the 1/4 but I think I actually got him at the finish line. Point being..... you may have got beat Porsche, but in a real 1/4 mile race, you probably would have pulled him. I shifted at 6,000 also. Car was pulling too hard to shift any earlier in my openion.
Also, we turned around and tried another run. The race was duplicated.

 

yeah... in my '88 I knew that when I pegged out I was doin' 130.... 45 mph faster than the speedo read.... and there was one point in time that I was doing what I guessed to be 150 or so because I was pegged and when I let off the gas, it took a good 10 seconds to come off the peg.....
but that was, of course, on a closed track, by a professional driver, and not to be attempeted