On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:21:40 -0500, wrote:
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:57:43 GMT, (Doug Miller)wrote:
In article , wrote:
(Doug Miller) wrote:

Indiana has a law requiring a driver to move over and allow vehicles to pass

if he's obstructing more than *three*.

Hardly anyone knows this.

Including the police. :-(

Is that a new law or a fairly old law? I left Indiana in 1975 for good, days
after
graduating highschool.

That's when I graduated, too... It was on the books when I learned to drive.


At that point in my life, there wasn't much chance of anyone keeping up to be
behind me.

California's has been on the books forever, and IIRC if you have a
parade of six or more behind you, pull over and let them by.

But common sense says to do it after one or two when you find a good
spot, and more urgently with three plus behind you...

Because if any one of those drivers gets impatient (and they will!)
one of them is going to try a bonehead move like passing over the
blind crest of a hill...

Then you see the SEMI coming the other way with a car passing him...

Now you're the Dead Meat in the middle of a four-car sandwich with
no place to go. Trust me, that is NOT a good place to be.

I drove a 1968 Dodge Dart with a 225 slant six...
Which means it was good for 104 MPH. Still not too many going to be
wanting to pass. (my '69 did 104 for an hour straight across the
corner of Wyoming)

You want a slug, my 62 IH Scout with the Continental 152 and either
4.11 or 4.27 gears. Take the 304 (great motor) and chop off one bank.

One of my customers still has the Dart GTS with the 340 CID sleeper
motor in it as her Daily Driver. Little Old Lady from Studio City...

Twice she's tried relegating it to Spare Car and buying a newer car,
having computer problems or other modern stupidity with the new car
where it was spending weeks at the dealer.

Then selling it off and going back to the Dart, and that little
bugger still purrs like a kitten - till you let it growl...

More power to her.

-- Bruce --