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Offline Splashdown

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Re: How many of you DUmmies have wasted gas by driving too fast
« Reply #50 on: February 23, 2012, 09:54:18 PM »
Quote from: TVDOC on February 23, 2012, 02:09:42 PM
I (in my young and stupid years) received a ticket for doing 157 on the Long Island Expressway in a Bricklin SV-1 (serial number 00003) owned by a friend of mine, being chased by a Corvette (that couldn't catch me).

Took two years for my lawyer to get that one plea-bargained down to 90 in a 70 zone......

My wife had that ticket framed, and it still hangs on my office wall, as a constant reminder of such folly.....








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Good thing you didn't have the flux capacitor turned on when you hit 88 mph!
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Re: How many of you DUmmies have wasted gas by driving too fast
« Reply #51 on: February 23, 2012, 09:55:59 PM »
If you're doing 25 mph over the posted speed limit, the police here have the option of hauling your butt to the pokey.  I found that out when I got busted doing 87 in a 55 (it was 6am.  There was nobody around.).

I've done faster but like I said, my speedo stops at 85.
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Re: How many of you DUmmies have wasted gas by driving too fast
« Reply #52 on: February 23, 2012, 09:57:54 PM »
Quote from: Splashdown on February 23, 2012, 09:54:18 PM
Good thing you didn't have the flux capacitor turned on when you hit 88 mph!
Ahh, the Bricklin "Safety Vehicle".
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Re: How many of you DUmmies have wasted gas by driving too fast
« Reply #53 on: February 24, 2012, 12:21:37 AM »
1994, Germany-- my sister came to visit for a week.  I had a 1979 Opel Kadett but decided that with the amount of traveling I was going to do, showing her the country, I'd better have something a little nicer and rented a new Opel Vectra.

Drove from Nuremberg to Berlin one night.  She woke up, and finding us zipping along the Autobahn in the dark, asked

"Where are we?"

"Somewhere near Bayreuth."

"How fast are we going?"

"Two hundred K."

"......How fast is that?"

"About 120."

"Oh..."

...and went back to sleep.

Good memories.

(The Kadett would just about do 100 K, if as with the Aspen story above, you were going downhill with a tailwind.)
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Re: How many of you DUmmies have wasted gas by driving too fast
« Reply #54 on: February 24, 2012, 01:38:51 AM »
Quote from: Ogre on February 23, 2012, 06:17:37 PM
I had the luck of being stationed in Germany for five years in the 80's when the speed limit on the Autobahn was truly unlimited.

I was a single NCO and the love of my life at the time besides beer, was a brand new 320i BMW.

I scared myself and the occasional passenger more than once.

Now days, Chevy Silverado usually towing a boat and probably not more than a couple over the limit.  I must be getting old. :-)

I know whacha mean! Since I have a lot of buds in Law Enforcement, I doubt I have been over 3 miles above the speed limit in years. Besides, my insurance is next to nothin' anymore and I like to keep it that way!
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