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Originally Posted by javadog View Post
Apparently, you’ve never read an owners manual for one of these... Forget the speedometer, you have a tachometer and some charts in the back of the book. If the tachometer is anywhere close to accurate, you can figure the top end speed just as Norbert Singer used to do at Le Mans.
I have, plenty of times, which is why I told the story about my friend's stock 1981 SC that could maybe go 136, brand new. And he enjoyed his story about going 150. That's the premise of me retelling his story. Because the car can't go that fast. Because I read the book.
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