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Originally Posted by Maynard
Back in the gloomy 80's they almost did this - at least capping them all at whatever would be 'legal plus a little'. They settled on limiting the speedos to only display up to 85mph. Back then, cars were craptastic enough that 85 was actually pushing it in most of them.
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I remember the 85 high on the speedometer I was going from LA to Vegas in the wee hours of the morning mid 80s. I was a passenger. We got pulled over for speeding. When asked by the cop “Do you know how fast you were going” the driver responded the speedometer said 85. It wasn’t pretty. He clocked us at 100. It was a rental.