Posted on 12/02/2002 1:31:30 PM PST by Grut
On Mt. Hope Avenue in Bangor, Maine, there is a 'measured mile' which, for reasons that probably seemed good at the time, is marked off in two-sixths of a mile intervals; i.e., with signs reading "2/6"ths and "4/6"ths mile.
This roused a vague memory that some of my father's cars, fifty years ago, had odometers which read in eighths of a mile. These were mostly Ford products.
But childhood memories are notoriously unreliable; does any other Freeper remember odometers calibrated in eighths?
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