Posted on 08/06/2006 6:50:22 AM PDT by dead
"....insanely overpowered car...." Such a thing does not exist.
BTW he knew I was a clamper cause of the ECV (E Clampus Vitus) bumper sticker on my rear bumper and my XNGH (X Noble Grand Humbug ... past clamper grand poobah) license plate
Clamper?
Without exaggeration ... I was stopped 22 times in my Corvette ... before I got a ticket. I told my freind that after about 18 stops. Then he was riding with me when I got stopped. The cop and I talked for a while and he let me go without a ticket, My freind said he did not believe me until he saw it for himself
Goggle E Clampus Vitus
I have no trouble believing you...These cops were probably just hoping you'd offer them a ride...They love cool cars too...
When I was in the Navy, I was driving home from Cecil Field in my yellow MG Midget with Massachusetts plates. I was doing the straight through drive, and wasn't as sharp as I could have been.
I was just south of the Virginia border on I-95, and to my surprise saw flashing lights in my rearview mirror.
I pulled over, the cop walked up to my car, and I felt like I was in a movie. The cop, with his mirror shades and Smokey The Bear had, put his hands on my door, bent down so his face filled my window, and said "Boy, do you know how fast you were going? I thought that I was doing under sixty, and that was the time of 55 mph speed limits...
He was pissed. He said "I've been following you for about five miles, you knew I was back there behind you, but you didn't slow down, just kept speeding. I gave you a chance, and you were just being a wiseass and kept going!"
I stammered and stuttered and impressed upon him that I had no idea, wasn't trying to speed (honestly), and he actually let me go! He said: "The Virgina border is 10 miles up that way. I expect to see you do the speed limit. If I see you do even one mph over the speed limit, you are going to get a ticket! If I ever see you break the traffic law in this state, you will be in jail! Now get going!"
He followed me all the way to the state line. I think that he not only didn't like Yankees, he was having a bad day. But to his credit...he didn't write me a ticket either!
Yesterday, I saw a smokey-and-the-Bandit trans am, in winchester, VA.
It had antique plates on it.
That is just wrong.
They do now.I think it's 75mph.I once had to drive from Billings to Havre,rehearse a group of musicians,play a show,and return to Billings(I had a 6:00am plane to catch the next day).The distance was something like 380 miles(ea.way).There were three mini-vans of us and I can tell you we were going WAY over 75!On the way back,we were doing something like 100mph.Our greatest concern was hitting a deer or elk!!!
This is probably different because the guy was going really fast in this case, but it can happen. My mother-in-law once had a police officer trying to pull her over for twelve miles. She was very tired and had not noticed the lights behind her.
It's nuts and will be much more deadly and destructive until they also decrease the reaction time of the drivers involved.
The National average for reaction time(which is decided to be 3/4 of a second from the time you visualize a collision about to occur and you are able to get your foot off the accelator and head for the brake pedal(not contact the brake but head for it with your foot)anyone like to hazard a guess on how many feet you will travel at even(example)70 mph, how about 270 feet with no assist from your brakes and if you are following closer than what is reasonably considered at highway speeds and conditions add another 1/2 second to you reaction time figuring the guy directly ahead of you on who you are concentrating as one who presents the greatest immediate danger to you and your vehicle has akready used up 3/4 second of your 3/4 second time you need to lessen the rear end impact you are fixing to experience without an noticeable reduction in you headlong rush toward the little bracket this truck's trailer has welded at the rearend of the trailer to keep your vehicle from running merrily into and under(likely the last sound you will remember and sight you will see will be grinding metal, screeching tires, flying glass and the windshield with your head embedded in it and all this riveted into your memory if you have any left....) "KABOOM"!!
Back in the 70s when that 'gas crisis' caused many law enforcement folks to select compacts for their fleet, NBC interviewed a county sheriff from Georgia who was well known for setting speed traps.
About this same time one of the motorcycle imports came out with a lightweight high speeder, I believe called the Bandit.
The reporter asked the Sheriff what he was going to do if one of those Bandits blew through his speed trap when all he had was at best six cylinders in a compact.
The Sheriff deadpanned in the deepest Southern drawl you can imagine, "Well, now, I guess we'll just have to shoot the sumbitch."
My brother got stopped by a georgia trooper in a Mustang once. By the time it was over, the troper and my brother were admiring the engine in the Police Mustang.
My Brother also has a Mustang and they ended up comparing cars.
OK, thanks.
I have a friend who is a cop and also a motorhead. We talk about places to cut loose.
Back in the car my buddy and I had a good laugh and a few rolling hills later I was doing 90 again.
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