I always wonder what they are doing when I should be pulled over, but I am not. Facebook? Solitaire?

 

funny story

 

Last weekend I was paying attention to watching the 900 roll over to 262K mi on my way back to school (the fastest way is through Mexico). Naturally I wanted to be able to see the entire odometer display, which in the 900 means I have to do less than 35 or more than 85. I chose to do 85, and as the car rolled over, I looked up and I was dead even with a statie in the median and a 9-3SS in the right lane. I never hit the brakes, just lifted off the throttle, and the trooper never made any motion to come after me.

 

Cops around here aren't above putting an unmanned car in the median, just to slow people down. But they usually do it in destruction zones.

 

We don't get much of that up here, considering how far we are spread out up here. Usually from Bangor to Augusta, you will see 1 cop max, hopefully you see it early and it's wide open after that.

 

That's totally true. I'm in Rockland. We have them around here more, but I'm sure that up in Old Town, there's hardly any. Tho Thomaston is CRAWLING with cops. Usually the people that pull you over though are state troopers not Thomaston cops themselves. I have friends in Thomaston. They only have 2 Dodge Chargers and 2 Ford Explorers for their force. Rockland just got a fleet of about 4-5 Dodge Chargers, in addition to the old fleet of about 7 Ford Crown Vics. Rockland is well looked after by cops. Up here they don't give you a lot of leeway, except that in some parts of Maine, there just are NO cops.

 

While reading it I couldn't stop thinking this: "Dear Penthouse..."

I guess you were lucky this time

 

Stll puts the OH SH!T meeter up on your mouth tho...

 

That's a good one. Reminds me of when I was driving my friend's Honda (nothing special, just an old stock Accord) and racing some random car on the "strip". Flew by an occifer, just waiting to pick up racers, at about 30 over. I tore off onto some side roads, certain that I was going to be pursued and hoping I could lose him. Parked and sat for a while, and realized that he somehow missed us flying by right in front of him! Don't know how that would have happened...

It's funny because you tell yourself that you won't do it again because you got lucky, but that sentiment soon wears off...

 

Henry, put the brakes on for this corner if you please?

Perhaps the lads had other things on their minds. You know they may have been laughing their asses off and the only thing that keeps them from popping the light bar on in a grand gotcha'are a sense of professionalism; not to mention the profound guilt if you did something stupid and all those messy lawyers. Yeech. :wink:

I was thinking about Caddys and the fact we kind of have Caddy motors anyhoo. I also got to thinking about Saab and stuff and our ecomomy (I have these Chauvinistic moments), jobs for our kids and how profit needs to stay in an economy. Weird, and yeah I had major surgery last week so ....

Anyhoo, Caddy and Lincoln used to be the hot tickets in the over road (early rally), stuff and one of the big uns' was from the Panama Canal through Mexico for that matter, back in the 1940's and 1950's. I can remember seeing pics of this big old Continental with a cloud of dust behind it.

I should have perhaps bought American (OZ motor and all), and did a final tribute to the old American racers instead of this going nowhere project (trying to put minilite and old school driving lights), on this car.

Ah, ya' gotta' dream and get delusional a bit I guess.

Remember Chauvin was the guy who was a wacko patriot and the fem movement stole the definition .. booo

 

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hmm

as usual, i haven't the faintest idea what you are talking about.

 

Really, if I could pick a dream job in the auto industry it just may be something like being the Zora Duntov of Cadillac. Just imagine getting cut lose with no holds getting rid of the chrome and tacky stuff and bringing back the race heritage.

When I bought our new Saab I was sitting in all these Caddy dealerships that had Saab forced down their throats by GM. I watched these poor guys getting dragged in by their wives to buy a candy flake Escalade and kind of started thinking about building a kick ass car and make no apologies.

Look at the history Pontiac as a test bed. They snuck some great stuff out on the street through Royal Oak Pontiac. Yeah, I saw the aluminum body 64 GTO that even GM did no know existed.

 

:?

 

Henry put the ....

Your tag says courier and by Mexico.

It is from a New Riders (and occasionally Grapeful Dead), song about running out of Mexico and "Henry" was driving very fast.

 

You're an odd one Tunnan, and while your posts are sometimes near impossible to decipher, they are wholly entertaining.

 

Hmmmmmmmmmm.

OK.

Yeah, should have skipped it.

 

Didn't ME have those photo things on bridges? I don't remember if they were actually photo-radar or just kind of a bluff on the northern part of I-95?

 

I'm not sure. I've seen a couple speed cameras around here. But they're mainly at intersections. I think there may be a few on bridges here and there though.

 

I know Maryland is mailing speeding tickets now from Cameras..... my friend just got one on the mail the other day for about $25

 

I don't see how they can legally do this, unless the camera shows a clear shot of the drivers face.

If the cop can't place you behind the wheel, how can he write a ticket?

In the case of a picture, it shows your license plate, you can't deny it's your car, but if the picture doesn't clearly show your face the state should have to prove you were driving the car.

Back in the early 60's my dad was on a marathon drive from Boulder, CO back to Cincy in his 60 Vette. Him and one of his friends, both of them wearing blue jeans and white shirts. They blew past a state cop somewhere in Illinois at about 90, the cop pulled out to chase. As my dad crested a hill and started down the other side, with the cop out of eye sight, they stopped and both got out of the car and stood by the trunk "reading" a map. Since the cop couldn't place either one of them behind the wheel, he couldn't write a ticket.

I don't know, maybe cops were more honest back then..

 

Only $25 for speeding?

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Gimmie my old Vette back.

That is bone cheap. Here even parking on a snow route is over $150 and court costs. Yeah! Parking and a court appearance is required?

My wife (my son did if but her car), was Royally PO'd she had to go to court. I tried to coach her .... "yes your honor, no your honor" ... and told her the judge would probably lecture her on "if an ambulance had to", but nothing, just the fine and costs. It is all in the money.

 

Question for Hirsch?

If the Rio Grande floods, does Cincinnati get wet?

 

Parts of it do.

 

Everyone has "Aw screw it" moments. I think dad got lucky or the cop never encountered that before.

You can mail things after the fact.

With our EZ pass system on the New Jersey Turnpike, it did not take long for an in crowd of regulars to figure out that there was no provision in the law to collect fines.

This was major egg on the face of the legislators. Guys racked up thousands in violations that were not collectible.

Now, my daughter got a few in the mail and I paid them but these guys knew better. They would send a letter, not a ticket.