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Old 06-28-2011, 12:35 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I kinda like this look. Once about six weeks ago a lunatic in a massive pickup loaded with ladders and other equipment switched into my lane to pass someone on the right. I was in the slow lane on a three lane highway. I was doing 55 in a 65 (legal). He must have been going maybe 85mph (not legal). Fortunately he was at some distance behind me. But he seemed unaware of me and racing at me without slowing. We did a little game of chicken. Me trying to guess his move around me in my rear view mirror and him bouncing left, then toward the shoulder, then back at me. I went wheels onto the lines separating right from center near another car and he passed my passenger door at a far faster pace--maybe not slowed at all, driving at least half on the shoulder. Maybe your tape would have helped--maybe it would simply have helped him find me as his target. He musta been high. But I kinda like this look.

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On my crx I've installed yellow LED's just above my brake lights. Also installed a lot of DOT reflector tape in a custom checkerboard pattern.
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.



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