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mingus88 • today at 4:27 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Hilariously the deloreon speedo didn’t even go up to 88


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linksnapzz • today at 4:54 PM

Part of that was a NHTSA rule that hilariously (from 79-82) made 85mph speedometers mandatory; but even later, because of tooling costs, those dials persisted.

Not that the DMC-1's PRV v6 and tall Renault 5-speed were gonna make getting to 85 easy...