I've actually found that a Metz 60 CT-1 is a bit more effective (GN 200),
but your point remains quite valid.

I've wondered a few times about the feasibility of mounting one somewhere
near the license plate.  This would have the added benefit, if hooded to a
slave, of defeating photo-radar.

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: Sean O'Neil <soneil@NS.SYMPATICO.CA>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: Tail lights 'n gators (vent)

> Being somewhat of an advanced amateur photographer, I have tried,  with
great
> success taking a flash picture through my back window, usually with the
help of
> an equally terrified co-driver. We are talking nighttime on roads in New
> Brunswick with a pulpwood truck  -right up our ass- for twenty or thirty
miles.
> This is a very dangerous situation folks as the roads are two lane,
curving up
> and down hill in every kind of weather.
>
> There is nothing quite so startling as a pair of Vivitar 283's and the
license
> plate they illuminate firing off on a black rainy road. I get a record of
how
> close the as*hole was driving and his plate at the same time. Tends to
make them
> back off quick.
>
> Tony Peet wrote:
>
> > God I HATE tailgaters and it seems there are more of them than not these
> > days! It's a really agressive and stupid thing to do.  I feel like the
> > biggest morons can put me and others at risk.......and a bunch of them
STILL
> > DO IT IN HEAVILY RAINY/FOGGY CONDITIONS!!!
>