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Subject: [Healeys] 100 MPH Club
From: mark at bradakis.com (Mark J Bradakis)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:18:11 -0600
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Bob Spidell wrote:
> I hit 100mph+--if my speedometer is to be believed--in my BJ8 with a 
> full load (passenger, luggage, etc.) on a deserted stretch of Nevada 
> highway (aren't they all deserted?).
>
> Nothing else to do out there.
>

Back in 1984 I worked as a summer intern at the IBM San Jose research 
labs.  I drove
out there in my TR6, drove back early fall.  No digital cameras or 
phones back then, and
I was out of film or I would have taken a picture of this old sign.  It 
was on a piece of
road just south of US 50.  The sign basically said something like the 
next stretch of road
is flat and straight.  There is a marker at 0 miles, a marker at 5 miles 
and a marker at 10
miles - if you do something stupid it isn't our fault.

I had a trunk full of California wine.  I didn't want to spill any, so I 
kept it under 100.

mjb.

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