What kind of car is this?

Brent P wrote: <brevity snip>
> In article >, Pooh Bear wrote:
> > LOL !
> >
> > The speedo *has* been doctored by changing the numbers.
>
> Not certain about that. They look much like the tach numbers although the
> 120 appears odd, the increment is correct.
>
> > It's only doing 100. Still puzlled over the lack of kph on the 'inner ring'
> > of the speedo though.
>
> Look at the inner ring area after zooming in. Look above the mph.
> Something has been smeared away. Also smears at regular intervals in the
> inner ring. AND a bit of a number left behind under the needle.
>
> I suspect the inner ring is mph, kph on the outer ring. The inner ring's
> scale was removed and the out ring's units were removed. This car was
> doing 140kph (87mph), which is in better agreement with the tach.
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Since flash was used I suspect the shutter speed was 1/60 sec. That
would surely cause more blurring of the background at 140 mph.
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- gpsman

gpsman wrote:

> Since flash was used I suspect the shutter speed was 1/60 sec. That
> would surely cause more blurring of the background at 140 mph.

Uh ?

Beg pardon ! Care to explain that theory ?

Graham

In article . com>, gpsman wrote:
> Brent P wrote: <brevity snip>
>> In article >, Pooh Bear wrote:
>> > LOL !
>> >
>> > The speedo *has* been doctored by changing the numbers.
>>
>> Not certain about that. They look much like the tach numbers although the
>> 120 appears odd, the increment is correct.
>>
>> > It's only doing 100. Still puzlled over the lack of kph on the 'inner ring'
>> > of the speedo though.
>>
>> Look at the inner ring area after zooming in. Look above the mph.
>> Something has been smeared away. Also smears at regular intervals in the
>> inner ring. AND a bit of a number left behind under the needle.
>>
>> I suspect the inner ring is mph, kph on the outer ring. The inner ring's
>> scale was removed and the out ring's units were removed. This car was
>> doing 140kph (87mph), which is in better agreement with the tach.
> -----
> Since flash was used I suspect the shutter speed was 1/60 sec. That
> would surely cause more blurring of the background at 140 mph.

of the dash? is that the new physics?

Pooh Bear wrote:
> gpsman wrote:
>
> > Since flash was used I suspect the shutter speed was 1/60 sec. That
> > would surely cause more blurring of the background at 140 mph.
>
> Uh ?
>
> Beg pardon ! Care to explain that theory ?
> -----
Most point-n-shoot camera's flash/shutter speeds are synchronized at
1/60. The car is relatively stationary to the camera (the steering
wheel is in good focus). The background is supposedly flying by at 205
fps. I would expect the background to have *some* "motion blur" at
either of those shutter speeds.
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- gpsman

Pooh Bear wrote:

> N8N wrote:
>> I'm curious where RHD cars are used
>
> Can't think of any other RHD countries that have roads in that good order.
> Maybe NZ ?

Most of NZ's roads do have exactly that style of seal and road marking,
and those roadside barriers are also the most common type here.

But I have never seen a non-antique car with MPH on its speedo (not
even with MPH and KPH). That isn't to say they don't exist though;
perhaps it is a European import or something, of which there are a
lot here.

Pooh Bear wrote:

>
> The control stalk looks like it may be GM Europe ( Opel ) probably in
> Germany in that case and not speeding at all.
>
> Graham


Here is another photo from the very same car, this time interior
left shot.

http://www.tomcorser.com/photomix/index_6.htm (IMG_2207.jpg)

gpsman wrote:

> Most point-n-shoot camera's flash/shutter speeds are synchronized at
> 1/60. The car is relatively stationary to the camera (the steering
> wheel is in good focus). The background is supposedly flying by at 205
> fps. I would expect the background to have *some* "motion blur" at
> either of those shutter speeds.

I don't know much about photography, but it seems odd to me just
how crystal clear the steering wheel is. Where would the driver
have to have held the camera to take that photo ? Any camera I
know would butcher the steering wheel when held, say, in front
of the driver's chest. (And how did he hold the camera still enough
to take such a photo?)

It looks to me like top bar the steering wheel has been pasted on top
of the dash. But the bottom part of the dash/wheel looks to be all
one piece. Maybe the guy copied the wheel, pasted in some other
dash, and put the wheel back?

I started a thread on the Wikipedia discussion about this:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Im...Car-140mph.jpg

Another big point that occurred to me while writing, is that the
guy is just about to come up to a corner, and it isn't a gentle
bend by any means! I've driven at 140mph myself, and at
that speed he is DEAD if there is anything just around the
corner where he can't see it, and he will also have MASSIVE
brakes if he is going to stay in his lane and make his way
around that corner.

Around 1/10/2006 8:37 PM, gpsman wrote:

> The background is supposedly flying by at 205 fps.


More like 128 fps; the photo has clearly been doctored.


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Old Wolf wrote:

> I started a thread on the Wikipedia discussion about this:
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Im...Car-140mph.jpg
>
> Another big point that occurred to me while writing, is that the
> guy is just about to come up to a corner, and it isn't a gentle
> bend by any means! I've driven at 140mph myself, and at
> that speed he is DEAD if there is anything just around the
> corner where he can't see it, and he will also have MASSIVE
> brakes if he is going to stay in his lane and make his way
> around that corner.

You call that a *corner* ?

I'd call it a gentle bend.

Graham