file.newsgroup.cars.103128 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Bob Pitas)
Subject: Re: It's a rush... (was Re: Too fast)
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Ad absurdum per aspera) writes:
>Wharf Wrat rites:
>
>>They were designed for speeds of upwards of 80 - I forget the
>>exact spec - but for military vehicles. That's 80 in a 1958 Dodge
>>Powerwagon. Not 80 in a 1993 Ford Taurus.
>
>Ever' once in a while, you still see a reference to the super-
>slab system as "Interstate and Defense Highways." But whether
>the military has much of anything that goes 80 on the road is
>another matter. A few of their most whomped-up diesel trucks,
>maybe, load permitting. The military surplus stuff I've
>driven -- "Jeep Classic" (Willys/Kaiser/AMC, pre-independent
>suspension) and Power Wagons (Slant 6 in a crew-cab pickup)
Actually, I've heard that some M1 Abrams tank commanders take the
governers off their turbine engines, and can acheive 90MPH on a
paved road. Never seen it myself, but I believe it...
>weren't exactly congenial at highway speeds, and I wouldn't
>swear any of them would do 80 except as a bedload on a semi.
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>
>--Joe
>"Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"
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