In 1975, one of my college friends had his parents' new Berlina for the week. He let me drive it out in the boonies south of East Lansing. Before we started, he told me that the speedometer was metric. Since I grew up with a '58 VW, I knew that 100 meant about 60 MPH with a KPH speedo.

After about 20 miles of driving with the speedo at 95 to 125, I was not that impressed. It rode a little smoother than I would have thought considering the size. It seem to take a long time to the get the speedo up to 125 and it had to be near floored.

We got back to the campus parking lot and Tom told me he was he was messing with me, the speedometer was in MPH and taking a close look at it, he was right. I was used to my Sunbeam Alpine that made 55 MPH seem like 100, so I didn't think anything was amiss.

Thinking back, I have to wonder about the hard 90 degree turn I took slowing down to 50 (thought it was 30) with the tires squealing and the look on the face of the deputy sheriff coming the other way on a narrow two lane that I waved at doing 90 (I thought it was 54).

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