Comments by "Andy Dee" (@AndyViant) on "American Reacts to The Stuart Highway in Australia - Fastest road in the southern hemisphere" video.

  1. I remember when I did it last how many dead roos there were. The truck hits them and most cars can drive over their bodies, so long as trhe car isn't lowered. But give it a day and their bodies start to swell with gas. Then of course, the lowest point of a lot of older cars was the exhaust. Hot exhaust touches bloated dead roo. Roo pops. Exhaust gets covered in rotting dead roo guts and cooks as you drive. Imagine the smell....
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  2. A lot of cars in the early 70's had the dual gauge setup that Ian mentions. I've had a Toyota Corona and a HQ Holden that had it. Both were 1973's.
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  3. v8 auto. That's gotta de-nut the poor v8.
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  4. One of my cars has a mph speedo still. It's not real hard to do. Funny story I remember years ago lending my girlfriend my car when hers was stuffed. She brought it back and complained that it was really loud and she didn't think it would make it to 100 on the freeway... So I asked her if she noticed anything funny about all the other cars, and she mentioned she noticed she was passing them all even though she couldn't do 100. Couldnt't understand why they were all driving so slow. Never twigged to her that the speedo had mph written on it. She'd been doing 95 mph down the eastern freeway just after 6pm in the evening. Over 50 kph over the speed limit.
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  5. @Rowan Brecknell She was a keeper for 9 1/2 years. Sadly that ended over 15 years ago.
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  6. It used to basically all be no speed limit outside towns in NT, then after some disasters with the Cannonball Run and some well publicised accidents outside of motorsport they changed it all down to 130 kph (80 mph). But the distances we're talking here are huge and fatigue is a real problem, so there's been plenty of debate about if it is safer to have the higher speed limits and the risk of crashing or the fatigue causing crashing instead. So the reintroduction of the "trial zone" was just reintroducing the status quo. This is a road of almost 1700 miles (over 2700 kilometers) in length. People mostly drive around 130 kph anyway because the fuel consumption jumps so drastically with speed and it's a really LOOOOONG way between petrol stations out there. Also running into a kangaroo at 200 kph would most likely destroy your car and kill everyone in it, so I wouldn't want to drive out there at that pace for a long time.
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  7. Fastest on a bike 265kph. In a car 160 mph indicated but no way that was correct - was more realistically 140 mph. The car would not have had the power for 160 mph, no way no how, so the speedo was probably way off whack. The fastest I've done in anything I currently own was 254 kph on one of my bikes and 115 mph in the car. Cannot wait to get it back on the track again soon.
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