Years ago on I-205 near Tracy, CA I was stopped for speeding in my 87
Wolfsburg.  My ticket was for 62mph in a 55 zone.  This was before
they changed a lot of the federal system over to 65.

Donna, 87 Syncro

On Nov 10, 2007 6:37 AM, Evan Mac Donald <macdonald1987@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I had much the same feeling when I was stopped in my '85 - my wife and I both asked the trooper several times "We were going how fast?" We couldn't believe Butternut got up to that speed in the relatively short time it had been since we pulled off from a stoplight...
>
>   My dad jokes that the van's acceleration should be measured in furlongs per fortnight...
>
> Anthony Zygmunt <tzygmunt@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>   My wife's uncle who owned a 71 Westy got stopped for
> speeding. He told the officer that instead of a
> ticket, he should get a metal for getting the van to
> go that fast.
>
>
>
> --- Stephen Grisanti wrote:
>
> > Shortly after I got the opportunity to test the
> > Westy's new air horns this morning (someone sitting
> > through a green light while waiting to make an
> > illegal
> > left turn), I got on the interstate for the short
> > hop
> > to work. While merging into traffic and checking
> > the
> > mirrors I spotted a trooper and figured there was
> > nothing for me to worry about, and then right after
> > I
> > got up to (legal) speed his lights went on. Turns
> > out
> > he was after the kid in the Civic behind me and was
> > I
> > ever relieved, but it's nice to think the WBX could
> > accelerate fast enough to attract the attention of
> > the
> > fuzz.
> >
> >
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