Take a very, very close look at the picture. Blow it up as large as
necessary. It isn't the needle and pin that you need to look at, it is the
shadows. Remember that the needle is raised above the surface of the speedo
face while the pin actually goes down to the surface.

What you are seeing with the pin and needle is the base of the pin and the
needle hitting the pin. The top of the pin itself is hidden by the needle.
So look at the shadows. This is what you see: the shadow of the pin is
clearly present. The shadow of the needle is to the right of the pin or the
shadow of the pin. That can only mean that it approached it from the high
side. If the van were sitting at rest the needle would be on the left side
of the pin, and the shadow of the needle would be to the left of the shadow
of the pin.

Look closely and think about it. Really.

Cheers,
Bruce
motorbruce
motorbruce@hotmail.com

>From: jbange <hfinn@INGRATES.NET>
>Reply-To: jbange <hfinn@INGRATES.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: 130mph in a vanagon
>Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 17:07:32 -0800
>
>At 08:48 AM 12/7/2004, you wrote:
>>Why can't anyone entertain the idea that this might actually be possible
>>with a high powered engine (which we know this van has) and a properly
>>geared transmission?
>
>Hey, I'm not saying that his van can't go that fast; I'm just saying that
>the picture he's offered as proof clearly shows a speedometer resting at
>ZERO mph. The needle is simply on the wrong side of the stop pin. I also
>find it hard to believe that anyone driving that fast would be dumb enough
>to try to snap a picture of his speedometer. Again, maybe he CAN push it up
>to those speeds, but that doesn't explain why he posted a picture of his
>speedo at 0 mph and captioned it: "Ever see a Vanagon speedo go all the way
>around back to the peg? (I took out my odo reset button). We hit the peg
>and it was still creeping up."
>
>John Bange
>'90 Vanagon "Geldsauger"