<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div><br></div><div>Well, my reminiscing likely was inaccurate, based on my web research this evening.</div><div><br></div><div>I was on the Kansas Turnpike, not the Eisenhower. 80 mph, not 85, is probably what I saw posted, and tried, briefly.</div><div><br></div><div>So the new 85 mph in Texas on a 40 mile or so section of new toll highway is 5 mph higher. Texas is "bigger" again, isn't it?</div><div><br></div><div>My experience was in 1969, on my way from SFValley State Coll to Ohio State for a summer institute.</div><div><br></div><div>S</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:75%;color:#575757">Sent from Galaxy Note GT-N7000</div></div> <br>Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com> wrote:<br>SamIam reminisces:<br><br>"I remember legally driving that posted speed limit 43-plus years ago in a '68 Mustang with a 289 V-8 on the Eisenhower expressway across Kansas."<br><br>Come on, Sam. You are talkin' forty years ago (before speed limits were of any concern) in Kansas, the state that invented checkerboard farming, roads/highways are straighter than a rifle shot, and the closest thing to a hill is a speed bump at the local general store.<br><br>Seeya at the polls, Moscow, because . . .<br><br>"Moscow Cares"<br>http://www.MoscowCares.com<br> <br>Tom Hansen<br>Moscow, Idaho<br><br>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."<br><br>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)<br><br><br> <br><br>On Oct 26, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Sam Scripter <moscowsam@charter.net> wrote:<br><br>> I remember legally driving that posted speed limit 43-plus years ago in a '68 Mustang with a 289 V-8 on the Eisenhower expressway across Kansas.<br></body>