Re: Oral Traditions & Apocrypha

[Steve An <san@domain.elided>]

Nice story, but I bet his gauge is at best inaccurate. This is a 30 year
old car with 30+ year old technology and wear and tear. Mechanically gauges
do wear out, no?

I am always grateful that my gauges work at all, if they are somewhat in
the vincinity of being roughly correct, I am OK with it. 

I have gotten off some speeding tickets pleading my case with the officers
about my widly inaccurate speedo.

con brio,

	- Steve.

>
>In the late 1960s, an Italian law was passed making it illegal to sell
>automobiles capable of exceeding a certain speed (which varies from
>story to story; I've heard 112 mph and 122 mph) to people over or under
>a certain age (I've heard under 21 and over 65).  As a way around this,
>Alfa allegedly marked the tachometer at the RPM which corresponded to
>that speed -- not because there was any mechanical necessity, but simply

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