***..slapping us with the idiotic 55 mph limit nation wide.***
I still remember that! I got my first highway speed ticket not long after it took place.
I-40 was not complete between towns but around them. Every cop in Tucumcari NM was out on the interstate pulling over speeders.
Yea and a buddy of mine from Flagstaff got a ticket just West of Gallup on I-40 where the idiot trooper gave him a lecture about how unsafe it was to go over 55 on that freeway...whereupon he asked how the hell could THAT be true since the speed limit on that section had been 75 just a few years earlier (this was in late ‘76).
The whole thing was a farce.
According to my aunt, Maryland freeways had a speed limit of 75 mph prior to the double nickel.