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HWY patrol Speed signs.. Who tries to see how high they can get LOL

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Old 05-29-2007, 10:54 AM
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Default HWY patrol Speed signs.. Who tries to see how high they can get LOL

I was just wondering about this bc i know that i do it..
If you dont know what im talking about its the big signs they put up and it will flash up on a big screen and tells you your speed when you get close to it..

I was wondering how many F-body guys do this?
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Lol, guilty. I also do it to check how far my speedo is off on occasion
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I don't
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I saw one yesterday and that thought crossed my mind, but its right in the middle on town so doubt I'll be trying it there.
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Yup!
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I do they had one set up on the small road. I turned around hit 100+ the damn thing went haywire. It clocked me @ 86 - 97 - 52- 87 then i got out of reach that was funny though
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I did once. It was in my neighborhood, and it hit 98. Looking back, it was probably stupid, but I thought it was funny at the time.
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Guilty here..
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never done it in my f-bod but try like hell in my civic work beater
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Ive only tried it once, when I was in High School, there was one in front of my house that I would run past to see how fast I ran. It read 16mph once!!
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i'm guilty only i didn't see it at first when i did it. I was in my '00 V6 Camaro and passed a guy and kept it floored and noticed a flashing in front of me. 125mph and it was flashing like crazy lol haven't done it with my Z yet

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Originally Posted by ColeTrains'96Z28
i'm guilty only i didn't see it at first when i did it. I was in my '00 V6 Camaro and passed a guy and kept it floored and noticed a flashing in front of me. 125mph and it was flashing like crazy lol haven't done it with my Z yet
LOL all the ones ive seen only have the double digits so it will only read i guess up to 99 ..

This is awesome bc i knew i wasn't the only one that did this.

I mean seriously their is a similar gadget right in our dash but thanks for the second opinion HWY patrol
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guilty here. I try to pass it at 100+ so it reads "99" since it only two digits... they are fun tho
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guilty......there was one by the house and i dropped a gear and it went blank for about 2 or 3 secs before it showed a speed lol
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i just came back from vegas and passed one on the highway, so i sped up and it started sparking like crazy and smoking out the top, then it spun around as i passed it................................................




































j/k it just went blank
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There is a vid somewhere on the net. Streefire I think that has a guy in either a 3000gt or some kind of ferrari that made the sign read "999" after numerous runs of 165+ on it. lol

It just stayed like that too. haha Like the said just said, "**** it. I quit".

It was pretty shitty quality video with some rich *****.
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they have a pair on I10 on my way to school every morning when I was in my camaro i would pass it it just goes blank passes 100. My beater would only go to 99
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I do it often. I would love to run past one cause I run track and always wondered how fast I am going.
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i actually did it last week
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for some reason there was one of those in our neighborhood a couple years back, a couple friends and I were too young to drive so we just threw stuff at it to see how high the speed read. its actually pretty good recorder for seeing how fast you throw a base ball.

I was surprised it even recorded stuff that small.



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