In article <47faec8c$0$6487$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Carbon <nobrac@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Not many people know this, but for a long time there was no daytime
speed
> limit in Montana.
In 1972, that's where I determined experimentally that my 240Z got 19
mpg at a steady 100 mph. No daytime limit, but IIRC it was 55 at night,
prudent considering the deer and pronghorn frolicking after dark.
Instead of a speed limit, the state marked the locations of fatalities:
one red pole per wreck, sup****ting one white cross per death. Some
curves were lined with poles. Some poles carried half a dozen or more
crosses--entire families, presumably. It certainly got my attention.
--
Lanny Chambers
St. Louis, MO
'94C
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