My uncle had a brand new 1969 Mustang Mach I w/ Super Cobra Jet 428. When my cousin (his youngest son) was back in town from Michigan, and I was up from UCLA, Unc, had finally broken his muscle car in, and it was ready for some more serious driving.... So he gets home from his SF office, and after parking in the garage, he walks into the den (where cuz and I were sitting watching TV), w/ the biggest grin we'd ever seen on him. He stops w/ the den door still open, and while beaming w/ pride, in his best Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry fashion, says "Ya'know, my car is fast; REAL FAST!...."
Well, the night before, cuz and I had been out in Unc's hot rod, and had found out for ourselves that it was, in fact, really fast. In fact, too fast for its own speedometer..... While seeing just how fast it was on a virtually vacant stretch of I-280 (which was under construction at the time), after pinning the speedo needle at its paltry 120mph top end, the needle stuck there. How the hell were we ever gonna explain that one? Well, after pulling off to the side of the road to discuss the situation, I came up w/ what I thought might be a brilliant plan..... get it up to ~120mph again, and feather the throttle and hope that the bump on the speedo's spindle reengages the detente on the needle's mounting hole....
Thankfully, after a couple of high speed attempts, the needle got its mojo back, and we were saved from having to fabricate a believable explanation for a broken speedo needle. I'm not sure if either of our hearts had fully recovered by the time Unc showed up in his den's doorway, but cuz and I were both like deer in headlights when Unc started talking about how fast his car was in that ominous tone. Not immediately sure whether we were safe, or had been busted...., until Unc reveled about how fast his pony car galloped from 50 to ~100. Cuz and I then pretended to appreciate that Unc was the person that first discovered how fast his car was......
and that's my fast-looking, metallic blue w/ black interior, Mustang flashback.....
triggered by an eerily similar looking implementation, 41 years its junior.
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