Fellow Moggers...
Shortly after I took delivery of my +8 last Spring my son was visiting, and
being the techie he is, he brught along his portable GPS receiver. He could
tell me precisely my speed, direction, distance from one point to the
present, and average speed. Pretty neat device. BTW, the speedo in the +8
was bang on.
Gary
Grafton, OH
At 08:07 AM 7/21/98 -0400, you wrote:
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>I agree with getting a second opinion about the speedo calibration,
>but as a old-time rallyist I wouldn't trust anything other than a
>stopwatch and a measured mile.
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>My favorite method is to find a fresh stretch of highway. One that
>hasn't been torn up too much, because they tend to rearrange the
>mileage markers when they do construction.
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>At 06:05 PM 7/19/98 EDT, you wrote:
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>>My neighbour and I were exercising our Morgans on the highway last week
>>at what seemed to me to be a legitimate speed when we came upon a
>>gendarme parked on the median. My friend slowed dramatically.
>>Afterwards I asked why he had slowed when we were doing only 65. "We
>>were going close to 80" he replied. I had always thought my speedo was
>>reasonably accurate.....
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>John,
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> Are you sure that it was your speedo that was off? Before you go nuts
>trying to get your guage calibrated, take another, late model car, out
>and chase it. Instruct the driver of the late model car to signal you
>with 5 fingers and then a fist at 50 mph. Then when you wave back at
>him, have him move up to 55. Again signal you with 5 fingers flashed 2
>times. Repeat this procedure for 60 - 1 finger held horizontally and a
>fist, and 65.
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>This will let you know that it was YOUR speed o that was off and not
>the other Morgan you were chasing.
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>John
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>John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
>Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
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> 48 TR1800 65 Morgan 4/4 Series V
>71 Saab Sonett III 75 Bricklin SV1 77 Spitfire
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