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Title: Wanna Haul A**? Legally? Texas Passes 85mph Speed Limit..
Post by: twyacht on September 06, 2012, 05:59:22 PM
41 miles of toll road from Austin to San Antonio. 

Not quite the 200 mph Bugatti Veyron, but I like the idea.....



I'm positive some weeny group will tout pending death and destruction, replay the "Blood On The Highway" films from the 60's and 70's, we saw in high school, but....

I like it.... ;D



Title: Re: Wanna Haul A**? Legally? Texas Passes 85mph Speed Limit..
Post by: tombogan03884 on September 06, 2012, 06:52:19 PM
Utah, across the salt flats, there weren't any speed limits in '98.
Title: Re: Wanna Haul A**? Legally? Texas Passes 85mph Speed Limit..
Post by: Timothy on September 06, 2012, 07:25:02 PM
Utah, across the salt flats, there weren't any speed limits in '98.

Back in '79 after getting discharged from the USN I made the trip from N. CA to Michigan in three days.  I ran the flats in my 71 Toyota at about 105 mph until she overheated.  I stopped, grabbed the tool box, took out the thermostat, removed the a/c pump, tossed it in a ditch and kept going east to Salt Lake City!  The next morning I changed the fluids and made it to North Platte, NE before 3 or 4 that afternoon.

Damn near left my dog in Utah... ;D
Title: Re: Wanna Haul A**? Legally? Texas Passes 85mph Speed Limit..
Post by: Bic on September 06, 2012, 10:32:45 PM
Wanna Haul A**? Legally? Texas Passes 85mph Speed Limit..

The Texas Department of whatever's reason for increasing the speed limit was, and I swear this is true,...."well everyone was driving that speed anyway".......watch out for 95 in a couple of years  :D

MP
Title: Re: Wanna Haul A**? Legally? Texas Passes 85mph Speed Limit..
Post by: twyacht on September 07, 2012, 04:40:48 AM
oops. Here's the link:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/06/texas-to-open-fastest-us-highway-with-85-mph-limit/?test=latestnews

Title: Re: Wanna Haul A**? Legally? Texas Passes 85mph Speed Limit..
Post by: sledgemeister on September 07, 2012, 08:49:13 AM
I guess resident lead foot - Marsha'ette will be moving from Kansas then. Might even be allowed tinted windows if she is lucky LOL
Title: Re: Wanna Haul A**? Legally? Texas Passes 85mph Speed Limit..
Post by: PegLeg45 on September 07, 2012, 12:05:30 PM
Damn near left my dog in Utah... ;D

Sounds like a song....................... but my head's in Mississippi.   ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D
Title: Re: Wanna Haul A**? Legally? Texas Passes 85mph Speed Limit..
Post by: Pecos Bill on September 07, 2012, 12:23:36 PM
The Texas Department of whatever's reason for increasing the speed limit was, and I swear this is true,...."well everyone was driving that speed anyway".......watch out for 95 in a couple of years  :D

MP

If any of you have driven in Texas you know that as silly as this sounds it's probably true 'cause if you drive even close to the speed limit in Texas you will get run over.
Title: Re: Wanna Haul A**? Legally? Texas Passes 85mph Speed Limit..
Post by: kmitch200 on September 08, 2012, 09:28:23 PM
Sounds like a song....................... but my head's in Mississippi.   ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D

Watch out for that nekkid cowgirl floating across the ceiling.  ;)
Title: Re: Wanna Haul A**? Legally? Texas Passes 85mph Speed Limit..
Post by: tt11758 on September 10, 2012, 07:44:57 PM
If any of you have driven in Texas you know that as silly as this sounds it's probably true 'cause if you drive even close to the speed limit in Texas you will get run over.

Hell, if you drive close to the speed limit damn near ANYWHERE you'll get run over.
Title: Re: Wanna Haul A**? Legally? Texas Passes 85mph Speed Limit..
Post by: philw on September 10, 2012, 07:52:11 PM
why not just make it 100  even number ;)

Title: Re: Wanna Haul A**? Legally? Texas Passes 85mph Speed Limit..
Post by: tombogan03884 on September 10, 2012, 07:56:14 PM
why not just make it 100  even number ;)



Actually there is a good reason.
If you do 25MPH under the speed limit you can be ticketed, most rental trucks, like U - Haul, Ryder etc would not do 75 if you pushed them off a cliff.
It would be better to have either just a minimum speed, or no limit at all.