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Look How Fast It Goes

Post by Humblej » Fri Feb 17, 2023 7:05 pm

I have to laugh, a speedometer for a Model T that goes to 75 MPH? That's optimism!
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Re: Look How Fast It Goes

Post by DHort » Fri Feb 17, 2023 10:54 pm

Works for the Montana 500
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Re: Look How Fast It Goes

Post by Norman Kling » Sat Feb 18, 2023 11:02 am

Reminds me of when they built the Arroyo Seco Parkway between Los Angeles and Pasadena. It was the first freeway built in the area around 1940. My dad was driving the 36 Ford V8 and commented to my mother,"We are going 45 MPH" I said, "Why don't you go 70?" My mom's jaw almost fell off! She said, "that's too fast! No one would ever go that fast." She lived to see the 70 MPH speed limit!
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Re: Look How Fast It Goes

Post by Humblej » Sat Feb 18, 2023 11:23 am

After High School I worked in a restoration shop that did a lot of classic cars: Duesenberg, Auburn, etc. We had a 1934 coffin nose Cord, front wheel drive, turbo charged, and a plaque in the glove box certifying that it had been test driven by Barny Oldfield to something like 129 mph. One of the employees took it out on the freeway and got it above 90 mph before coming to his senses.
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Re: Look How Fast It Goes

Post by ModelT46 » Sat Feb 18, 2023 12:28 pm

Coffin nose Cords were 1936 and 1937. I have seen one that had a plaque on the dash that stated the same.
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Re: Look How Fast It Goes

Post by TWrenn » Sat Feb 18, 2023 1:24 pm

It's actually suicidal! :lol:
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Re: Look How Fast It Goes

Post by Humblej » Sat Feb 18, 2023 1:38 pm

Ok, 36, or 37 sounds right. I drove that car too, just not above 45 mph. Nice car.
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