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From: brooke@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Top Speed Query
Message-ID: <310@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 10:56:41 EST
Article-I.D.: nmtvax.310
Posted: Thu Feb 28 10:56:41 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 06:08:59 EST
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Reply-To: brooke@nmtvax.UUCP (J. Brooke King)
Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro
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In article <> you write:
>	I'd like to hear if there are places in the midwest or wherever 
>that you can freely stand on it and "see what she'll do."
>
>Rei Shinozuka
>ihnp4!cmcl2!acf4!hkr4627 


Hey, out here in New Mexico you can easily find fairly straight (we say
that when we mean only one or two sweeping curves when talking of
flatlands) stretches of 50 miles or more with not a soul in sight.  Even
the mountainous roads are a lot of fun -- look at recent Mazda RX7 ads
for one of the finer examples of fun mountain roads in the Taos area.  I
remember Car & Driver once calling the same area a lot of fun.  There
are very few state police officers in NM -- about 360 TOTAL for our
fifth largest state in the Union -- so even in slightly inhabited areas
like my home county (Otero, land area comparable to Massachussetts,
population about 40K), one can go for 90 miles, flat out, at night --
with the lights off if it's near a full moon because we have very little
light pollution.  There are better areas in this state and in West Texas
for long distances at high speeds than Otero county, but I know it best.
I also prefer the fun mountain roads, but I do enjoy a little flat out
exhileration once in a while.
-- 

        J. Brooke King at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
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