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Old March 7th 05, 07:14 AM
zmike6
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Default What a Beautiful Day for a Drive!

On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 21:37:13 -0800, Scott en Aztlán
> wrote:

>Westbound I-8, JWO Stanfield, AZ. The sky is partly cloudy, but bright
>sunshine is streaming through. The road is dry and arrow-straight,
>with a slight downgrade. There's not another car anywhere in sight.
>Thanks to a wet winter, the median is full of healthy green plants -
>all the better to mask my presence from any threat vehicles travelling
>on the eastbound side.
>
>With conditions nearly perfect, I dropped it into 5th and pressed the
>pedal firmly; the speed quickly began to build. It took maybe 30
>seconds to reach 160 MPH. It would have been easy to go even faster -
>the LS-2 was not even close to topping out - but a small dot appeared
>on the horizon, and I decided not to press my luck.
>
>Damn, but 80 MPH sure seems slow now...



C6 or GTO? I'm guessing C6 since the GTO has a programmed limiter
somewhere around 165?
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