While you are correct, I lived in Greeley, Colorado in 1970-1971. Right turn on red was already in effect there at that time.

Thats always been legal in California.

Its always been that way in NJ and many other munipalites long before the gas crisis. ⛽️

I’ve been to some small towns where all of the traffic lights are programmed to flash red at night.

Then they added cameras and said f u

yup, lucky escape. The CHP used to have fun cars like Mustangs and Cameros for a while, years ago, and now don't know, not there. But they had, last time there, the "ghosts", usually all white, hard to spot, until it's too late!! :D

@@ronschlorff7089 I didn't escape, I was let go. This was in 1989. That was *BEFORE* they got the sports cars.

@@erictaylor5462 it's just a saying for luckily let go. Saw the Stang's CHP; but not in my mirror! :D

Around where I live cops flash their lights and if you don't slow down then they pull you over lol

@@ronschlorff7089 Its cause the big 4 door cruisers were heavy and completely gutless in the late 70's to mid 80's. Especially the Dodge Diplomat patrol cars. Imagine trying to catch somebody doing 90mph from a dead stop in a 4200lb cruiser that had 150hp and ZERO top end above 50mph or so. GM and Ford were putting hotter engines in the Camaro and Mustang vs the big cars, plus they were a thousand pounds lighter, so 0 to 90 took like 15-16 seconds vs 35+ seconds in the big cars.

If you lived in some prairie states such as Montana, the Dakotas, Texas for example. On their interstate highways I understand that in some areas they don’t have speed limits.

@@glennso47 my mom drove to Big Bend and told me about those roads. The Texas Autobahn

@@abraxaseyes87 have gone to Mexico through those bare Texas roads so long the end fades and you cants see it.

Awesome! Years ago my sister who had a leadfoot also, got pulled over by a State trooper here in Rhode Island for doing close to 90 in her brand new 84 Vette. The trooper walked up and asked her if (nearby) Green airport had given her clearance for takeoff? One of the best cop lines I ever heard!

That song makes so much more sense to me now.

That's interesting

IIRC the Mustang did this.

Corvette just said fine and used a digital cluster instead 😂

Mustang cobra did that on a few cars

@@the_kombinator ha. I just said that too.

Oops, so you can cruise around 45-50mph?? Wow

With a Jeep as slow as yours, I would no longer have any rarely used high gears. I can probably get your Jeep fast enough for its high gear even in the city. The rule of thumb is to keep driving a minimum speed limit of 1.5K RPM and a maximum speed limit of 3K RPM, but with a Jeep as slow as yours, I would likely bend that rule, exceeding 3K RPM in the highest gear that it has, but for the most part, if I am driving above 3K RPM or below 1.5K RPM, I am in the wrong gear for the speed that I am going. With my six speed Ford, fifth gear is used in both city and highway driving above 40 MPH and sixth gear is used only on the highway. If 40 MPH is the fastest that my six speed will go for the day, I just leave it in fourth gear, instead of shifting to fifth gear. Going 40 MPH in only fourth gear will still put me at sub 2.5K RPM and I will not have to think about downshifting as soon as I slow down. Instead, I leave the car in fourth gear until I get below 30 MPH, then I start downshifting, slowly but surely. That way, if I am slowing down for a red light and it turns green, I am already in the appropriate for the speed I am still going.

yup, got several cars from 60's in my "collection", lots of good info on the vin, like where it was made.

@@ronschlorff7089 Yessir. I actually received the wrong title on my 1978. The vin is how I found out it was a 1978 and not a 1979. Thankfully my state does not require title to register old cars.

@@TheBabyDerp interesting, they do in AZ, maybe cuz so many car collectors here. Barrett Jackson classics auction and all.

@@ronschlorff7089 Alabama is nice. 35 years old and older, no title required only bill of sale and insurance plus a basic vin inspection to verify it's not stolen or what have you. It actually gets MUCH better. You can register ANY vehicle without a title in alabama under 35 too. Alabama is one of the few states that allow bonded titles. Long story short. You have a vehicle without a title. You get an insurance bond on it. You take the bond paperwork plus bill of sale and insurance to county tax office and boom its registered. they send a "bonded title" to you in the mail and it works just like a regular title. After 3 years, the bond expires, and you get sent a regular title. Bonded titles act just like clean titles in Alabama. I had to do it with a 2000 Yamaha Roadstar 1600. It cost less than $250 including registration fees and insurance BOND fees.

@@TheBabyDerp hmm, 35 years seems too short nowadays seeing as the first year of miatas are only 2 years away.

'cept it did not save fuel, and no one drove 55, unless they were drunk, and didn't want to "needlessly call attention to themselves"!! ;D LOL

@@ronschlorff7089 Wrong it did save fuel get your facts straight.

@@gaim44 Nope, no one drove 55, especially not the truckers, in the wide-open west, they had deliveries to make, timely. Troopers did not "bother" them!

@@gaim44 nope. Fleet fuel mileage did not start rising until after 1978. The speed limit was enacted in 1974. Fleet fuel mileage didn't break 13 mpg until 1980. The speed limit had no effect on overall gas consumption although individual mileage may vary.

Kalamazoo!

@@jadelajouz2996 Nice name, songs written about it. Lots of cool names for towns in the country, including a town in CA called Cool. One in Idaho was Athole though, ....not so great. :D

It MUST be able to go WAY faster than that! Hell, one of the cars in my collection is a family heirloom 1972 VW freakin Beetle and even IT can reach the low 90s and all I did to it when I rebuilt the original engine is swap out the points for electronic ignition, put on slightly bigger jugs (87mm vs stock 85.5 for a new displacement of 1641cc, about a third of the size of the next smallest engine I own) and a mildly upgraded cam, carburetion and exhaust headers with very mild porting to the original heads. 🤔

@@serfcityherewecome8069 Nice! Funny thing: I saw a VW bus (yeah, a hippie wagon) once, with a bumper sticker on it that read "zero to 60 in 11 minutes"! LOL :D

@@ronschlorff7089 Must be the fastest VW Bus on the planet if it can hit 60 in 11 minutes if at all...🤮...most senior citizens can outrun them on foot.

@@serfcityherewecome8069 No joke, and it was on a road (hwy 50, in CA) up to Lake Tahoe at the time I saw it. "Oh, the Humanity"!! :D LOL

If your van had an overdrive trans that was when to go from drive to overdrive at least that was the impression I was under

Remember when cars had actual cigarette lighters

This edit style would lend itself to any trends of different vehicles in general very well. Odd clusters, gear shifters, engine types..so yeah 80's haha

Yes, sir! May I have another!

Yes please

Mixing this type of content with your regular car reviews would be great!

The buss had to stay above 50, not 60. Also, the bus in Speed was pretty antiquated. Those buses had long been phased out of the transit system for more modern buses. The director just liked the look of it.

The bus was a GM New Look. Can't speak for other cities, but here in Toronto, that model remained in service until 2010, 15 years after the movie came out.

Maybe a crap hole like Toronto needed to keep thier old busses running but in California they get new busses every few years. Usually upgrade once a more fuel efficient model is made and sell the old ones to 3rd tier cities like toronto

i’ve been stopped on 695 so many times for going 70-80 :/ truly should be a 70mph limit at minimum, at least near the interchanges. people come off the i95 and i70 exits doing 80 all the time. this is exactly how i keep getting caught lol

md has stupid low speed limits and i swear it's just so the police can write more tickets

@@BigTreeLander it is 100%

@@BigTreeLander Whats stupid is when a person keeps going over the speed limit and keeps getting tickets..lol

@@gaim44 there's actually some interesting psychology there. Most people don't pay attention to speed limits, rather they drive at speeds that they feel comfortable with. Road designers know this and have a desired speed in mind when building the road. Changing the posted speed limit does little to actually slow people down and would require a re-design of the road or addition of traffic control measures to ensure people are traveling at the desired speed.

yeah Jo prices sure are high these days! it isn't like during the time you're describing, you could also get a big mac for 85 cents and a house for the same price as a used car today, right? things weren't cheaper dude your money is just worth less now

@@rammym23 Oh, no argument there. When that happened, I was working for the Santa Fe RR. I was making $5.00/hr, which at the time was BIG money! The minimum wage was $1.60/hr.

Yes, my aunt had a Buick wildcat with a speed buzzer but you could set it to any speed you wanted to.

My 2011 Honda has the same thing, you can choose 2 speeds and it'll make a 'ding' sound when you get to that speed. Got em set to 50kph and 80kph. So convenient in the city to just pull away at the lights, hear the "ding" and that's the cue to hit the Set CC button. Same on provicial roads, just wait for the second 'bing' and set the CC.

I think buses to this day still have 85 as the highest speed shown.

the suspension nowadays is also waaaay better than what we had back then.

@@Wheagg i think thats more due to a physical limit, the bus is one of the least aerodynamic vehicles

@@jerrycai3317 yes but I think they kept it from back then

You say that like cars back then couldn’t do over 85. The corvette, trans am, mustang and many others could do 140 mph. However what you should be impressed about is how your impala can most likely keep up with the 305 v8 trans am of the old days :)

Agreed! What a terrible year it was. A 1974 Chevelle 4 door was considered a midsize (weighing about 4100 lbs and usually equipped with a 350!). When the crisis hit it was quick, without a time for us to catch up.....

gas was still cheap (1.50 or less), if you could find it. A v8 then would still give more range/buck than a "modern car" today in say Cali at 8 bucks per gal. In a year or so you'll need an ox cart! :D

@@ronschlorff7089 To think gas was $2 a year ago in some places. Adjusting for inflation, that has to have been the cheapest that gas ever was

@@baileyharrison1030 Yes, and when I first drove in 60's, in L.A. people there complained about the "outrageous" cost of gas at 35 cents, since most of rest of nation was paying only 25 cents!! :D LOL

@@ronschlorff7089 To be fair, that's a 40% difference! It would be worth it to cross state lines to take advantage of cheaper fuel if you lived close enough to the border.

Here in the ROK, the speed limit is 100-110 kph. I imagine it is also for fuel-saving and safety. I find I get my best mileage maintaining 100 kph. 😉

@@Darknamja ROK rocks. #1

Speedometers on cars sold in Europe also emphasis on 30KM/H as well. Some urban roads max speed in 30, usually smaller roads.

We had the Pathetic Ford KA with it's dash displaying 220kph but it could barely go to 170 lol And no tachometer or temperature gauge (the tachometer later on was standard with no temp gauge, so you can lose your engine when the temperature light comes on as it's too late to do anything about it)

@@automation7295 That is not a law though, just a thing some automakers (e.g. VAG) like to do. My Audis and VW always had a marking at 30, 50 and 130 (German recommended Autobahn speed, as if). My BMW E46 for example does not have any distinguished markings at all.

Did canadian speedo meters had the 110 km/h marked? in mexico the cars from that era had a mark in 110 km/h also they where marked to 150 km/h

@@HIDHIFDB Honestly, I don't recall. If it was there, I never paid it any mind.

Hillary wants to know your location

@@waterheaterservices that island that ol' Epstein had, is my guess!! :D

Yeah, limiting the speedometers to go up to the actual max speed of the car would be nice. My small, fuel efficiency minded car car gets to 165kph, why does the speedometer go up to 240? It just makes the digits crammed together

@@svaj1000 It's not a problem per se, it's just annoying

@@FAB1150 I know right. Ford had the Ford Ka as the cheapest car here in Brazil, and the Ka of first and second gen had a speedometer that goes up to 220kph but the maximum speed it can go is around 170kph, with it's 1.0l engine (69hp). It has a 1.6l (104hp) sport version which can do around 200 at best, of which it has the same speedometer of 220kph. And then there is the Fiesta, which is in a upper class, with the same 1.0 or 1.6l engines as the Ka, the speedometer only marked 200kph, which is really weird. The Fiesta is more capable of going into higher speeds and it's a better car overall, so why did ford do that with the smaller Ka? I bet it was to attract more younger guys into it thinking "oh it has more kph so it's faster", although the Ka is more aimed for girls.... Weird Ford. And there was one time where VW made the "Gol 1000" With a pathetic 1.0l engine with 49hp, of which it showed on the dash 180kph at top speed, but it could barely go to 140kph. Later on Vw made the Second Gen of the Gol, with the same engine with 49hp, and it showed 160kph in the dash, 20kph less, why? I dont know. Later on VW put a new 1.0l engine with around 59-60hp or so on it, made the car better but it still had the same 160kph dashboard, and there was even a rare basic version with a 1.6l engine (around 94hp) with the same 160kph speedo, of which you could bury it without any problem. I bet you could do 200kph on it and the speedo would do a full 360 lol. The 62hp 1.0l engine could bury it too, lol, at 170 or so kph. On Gen 3 Gol VW brought back the 180kph speedo in 1.0l versions and 220kph on 1.6l or 1.8l engine versions. Weird. Sorry for the long comment too. Thanks for reading it and have a nice day, evening or night!

I have a '04, 4x4, 5 sp., glad none of that stuff on it. Just a few manual knobs and dials; all written in American!! LOL :D

Exactly the same here in the States. Everything I've ever owned with lockup does it around 55mph. As I sell auto parts, I can't tell you how many customers I've had who purchase a product called "Shudder Fix" for (primarily Ford) vehicles that have a lockup flutter once the fluid gets some age and wear on it. They always say, "It happens around 55mph...", and I start a-walkin' toward the Shudder Fix.

Cars sold in Europe and UK often have different requirements than cars sold in North America. Speedometer often have two red markings for 30km/h and 50km/h, which makes sense as they common speed limited for cities.

I thought it was 100kmh in japan

I have a 1987 f150 302 as a project truck. Hearing the engine in the morning makes my day. 🦅🦅

I live in AZ, I'd say zip, but I was not here then. Even in CA it was little to none in the late 70's!

Compliance figures !?? Now, THAT'S a real leg-slapper, my friend !! At that time, I was driving all over the U.S.A., and it was WEIRD -- AZ, UT, MT, TX -- never paid no mind to the double-nickle, while the people in MA, VT, NH, and CT never drove faster than 55, anyways !! Speed limit on I-15 was 80 mph -- I was cruising at a steady 85 -- was passed by a semi towing TWO loaded gravel TRAILERS. Traveling America's highways USED TO be an adventure -- climate change and 330 million people have changed it all.

@@SlikLizrd Not surprising the states differences, NE slow, cautious; but in big open western country, like here in AZ, you "go like hell, ..you'll get there"! :D

@@ronschlorff7089 Yes, Ron, but our beloved state of Arizona is getting CROWDED now, what with 7 MILLION people and all -- I'm 83, living in West Phoenix for 50 years -- I'll die here.

@@SlikLizrd Yup, me too; I got my mountain picked out, where my wife will "sprinkle" me, the Pusch Ridge of the Catalinas, which we view from our home in Oro Valley!! ;D

Definitely. Going 70 mph in a 55 mph would get you pulled over way faster than 85 mph in a 70 mph zone would today,

I'll tell ya', if you can ever get used to the slower speed it's an efficiency game changer. I have a particular four mile run on a 55 mph highway that's a part of my commute to my work, and I went from 18 mpg to 23 mpg in a Tacoma by dropping from 55 to 50 through there. There's a lot of straightaways, so people can pass me easily, and it takes me like one more minute to get to work. I listen to podcasts on the trip, so it's never bothered me.

well, there was a time when it was needed due to gas crisis. maryland kept their 55mph until 1995.

@@tenfourproductionsllc the 85 mph speedo?!! No!!!

Indeed! We still talk frequently!

I remember the 55 mph days, not many drove that slow and highway patrol's did not enforce it much unless you were a drunk. It was a joke, as was our president (Jimmy) at the time it was first introduced (70's).

Actually, it was already in well place when Carter came along.

@@rumblebars a peanut farmer fan, ok! ;D

@@ronschlorff7089 55mph national speed limit was signed into law on January 2, 1974 by President Richard Nixon. And then we had President Ford. Then we had President Carter.

@@TheKZfaqTeam It was a joke to CHP, in CA, a known "driving state". I was there, in college, at the time.