Cruising On The Autobahn

[67Monaco]

sigh.

For those with worse reading comprehension than I,

For fahk's sake.

 

[jct]

I saw it, before ppl commented on it...

 

[67Monaco]

I saw it, before ppl commented on it...

Hell it was quoted here;

Cruising On The Autobahn

 

[69monaco]

With the (newer ) cars you don,t feel your going fast because they are so much better build than cars from the sixties / seventies ………….
Few years ago we drove with 3 cars on the autobahn , Subaru wrx...235 km/h past him with a Volvo T6 with 245 km/h , than a friend past me with his srt8 with 270km/h.
Last year he drove his hellcat 306km/h on the autobahn…...with 4 people in it.....

I drove my 69 polara 383 4bbl with 210km/h but it feels like 400km/h......

 

[Fury440]

The one in the picture is mph, this is the European Km speedometer I put in my Fury.
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[Knebel]

With the (newer ) cars you don,t feel your going fast because they are so much better build than cars from the sixties / seventies ………….
Few years ago we drove with 3 cars on the autobahn , Subaru wrx...235 km/h past him with a Volvo T6 with 245 km/h , than a friend past me with his srt8 with 270km/h.
Last year he drove his hellcat 306km/h on the autobahn…...with 4 people in it.....

I drove my 69 polara 383 4bbl with 210km/h but it feels like 400km/h......

IsntI it crazy to think that here in the US you get Prison time for that? For...driving how the machine is designed?

 

[Duncan]

Judging by the dash it looks very much like he is driving a 68 Plymouth Fury or, at the very least, a Mopar from that era. I suspect a Sports fury?

 

[crazyboutwagons]

Looks to be a convertible. The 4th switch to the right of speedometer is for top.when I first saw it thought it was for rear window like my wagon.then I blew it up and could make out a TO.so maybe Duncan is right about sport fury.dash is definitely 68 Plymouth.

 

[detmatt]

Looks to be a convertible. The 4th switch to the right of speedometer is for top.when I first saw it thought it was for rear window like my wagon.then I blew it up and could make out a TO.so maybe Duncan is right about sport fury.dash is definitely 68 Plymouth.

If that was a top switch it wouldn’t have “on and off”.

 

[Ross Wooldridge]

Looks like is says UP & DN rather than On Off

 

[detmatt]

Looks like is says UP & DN rather than On Off

I guess I can’t see it that well then, try as I might I can’t make it out.

 

[crazyboutwagons]

That's what I thought it looked like it. Up/down.

 

[300rag]

If that was a top switch it wouldn’t have “on and off”.

If you look at the top of the switch opening you can see a"T" and an "O".

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

Convertible is correct, I see a vert switch TO.. & Up DN. Wonder how the wind noise is at a ton up speed.

I remember riding shotgun in a early 80's pimped out Vette that had 4 Weber's, sick cam, and headers to straight pipes with just Ferrari Ansa tips on the end tuned by a ex-GP mechanic. I was trying to get my friend to rev the SB 350 to 9 grand (thing idled at 1,800rpm) but as we were just getting past 150 the cold wind through the T-top gasket on my side was getting un-bearable and as I was reaching up he yelled at me to not touch the T-top as Vette's are notorious for pitching T-tops at speeds above 150. heh

The after breath for the Weber's on the slower twisty roads was kind'a cool.

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

Wonder if a speedometer shop could convert and re calibrate this to a 200 mph speedometer?
I guess it would just be different magnets and a spring or swap the face plate to a US speedometer?
The odometer part would just swap out I'm sure.
Be cool...

Then we would need to twin turbo the 440...

 

[MarPar]

IsntI it crazy to think that here in the US you get Prison time for that? For...driving how the machine is designed?

Ya, tell me about it...Ive been able to sneak in a few {higher} speed runs with all of my BM's...but never even close to their full potential.

 

[Fury440]

I agree that the car is a '68 Fury vert, looks pretty well the same as the one I bought in '69. Mine was a Fury III with less chrome, so my guess is that car is a Sport Fury. Probably a 440 car, but the tack shift pointer could also be for a 383.

 

[67Monaco]

Ya, tell me about it...Ive been able to sneak in a few {higher} speed runs with all of my BM's...but never even close to their full potential.

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I've had highspeed BM runs too. But I usually don't go bragging to the world about it. I usually feel too bad for the maid to brag about it.

 

[MarPar]

I've had highspeed BM runs too. But I usually don't go bragging to the world about it. I usually feel too bad for the maid to brag about it.

You just did...and the maid will be fine.

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

I abide by the philosophy of "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" when traveling on our interstate highways.

But then again I've gotten my fair share of 79mph tickets so what do I know.