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Default OT. GM fuel mileage overstated

On Monday, May 16, 2016 at 11:05:17 PM UTC-4, rbowman wrote:
On 05/16/2016 09:54 AM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
My sister made friends with a girl scout from
Canada. Sister asked friend how fast they drove,
on the way to visit. Friend said "we didn't go
very fast, we only went about a hundred". Sister
exclaims how fast that was, we only go about
sixty or sixty five.


Back in the day I recall doing 100 on the Mac and Jack Speedway
(Macdonald€“Cartier Freeway) and it wasn't no stinking kilometer stuff.


I used to do 100+ on the Verrazano€“Narrows Bridge between Brooklyn &
Staten Island in NYC. I was driving a Chevy station wagon full of bagels
during a short stint as a bagel delivery guy for a friend's bagel business.

The Brooklyn cops would turn back into Brooklyn on their side of the bridge
and the Staten Island cops would turn around on their side. There was never a
cop on the bridge unless there was an accident. At 5 AM, you usually had
about 4 miles of open road to play on.