C'mon now...how sneaky can you get?!?!?

On Jul 28, 6:40*am, Clive > wrote:
> In message >, C. E. White
> > writes>The Wake County NC Sheriff's Department has a Corvette they use. I have seen
> >it pull over a car. It was a drug seizure. I persoanlly think the Sheriff
> >should be voted out of office for keeping it. In theory it should have been
> >sold the Corvette and turned the money over to the local school system (NC
> >rule). Instead the Sheriff kept the Corvette and uses it as a play toy. I've
> >never like the idea that law enforcement can sieze things becasue of some
> >hypothetical connection to a crime, and this case is, at least in my mind,
> >especially disgusting.
>
> I suppose it's like that little town called "Bell?" You've got there
> where the chief honcho gets $788,000 per annum. * (Twice the Presidents
> $400,000). Apparently they can set their own pay in closed session and
> no one knows what they are paid apart from their pension company. * Was
> on our programme called "Newsnight" national news last night.
> --
> Clive

I'll bet that goes on a lot more than we know.

On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:57:47 -0700, nobody > wrote:

> I got one ticket written up for 148 mph on the radar as a souvenir, with
> VOIDED BY OFFICER across it, I wish I could find it.

YEEEHAAA! What was the car?

On Jul 30, 4:50 pm, Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B > wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:57:47 -0700, nobody > wrote:
> > I got one ticket written up for 148 mph on the radar as a souvenir, with
> > VOIDED BY OFFICER across it, I wish I could find it.
>
> YEEEHAAA! What was the car?

I'd be interested to know also. Back in the early 1970s i had a 66
425HP Corvette I once, and only once, took up to 140mph. Front end
got real light around 135 and I have always believe the car would have
gone airborne a little above 140 mph. Wasn't many cars back then that
could break even 130 back then but once worked with a man in the steel
mills in Ohio that got a ticket in VA for doinfg138 mph in his then
new 68 Buick Gran Sport Rivera. The GS option came with 2 four
barrels.

In message
>,
johninky > writes
>I'd be interested to know also. Back in the early 1970s i had a 66
>425HP Corvette I once, and only once, took up to 140mph. Front end
>got real light around 135 and I have always believe the car would have
>gone airborne a little above 140 mph. Wasn't many cars back then that
>could break even 130 back then but once worked with a man in the steel
>mills in Ohio that got a ticket in VA for doinfg138 mph in his then
>new 68 Buick Gran Sport Rivera. The GS option came with 2 four
>barrels.
Over here, you loose your licence for three to six months and a heavy
fine if you are doing 1.5 times the limit.
--
Clive

On 7/30/2010 5:50 PM, Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:57:47 -0700, nobody> wrote:
>
>> I got one ticket written up for 148 mph on the radar as a souvenir, with
>> VOIDED BY OFFICER across it, I wish I could find it.
> YEEEHAAA! What was the car?
>
>
>
A Beechcraft

--
John

In Texas, you could drive flat out too.Maybe still can.
cuhulin

Clive > wrote:

>johninky > writes

>>Back in the early 1970s i had a 66
>>425HP Corvette I once, and only once, took up to 140mph...

>Over here, you loose your licence for three to six months and a heavy
>fine if you are doing 1.5 times the limit.

On Usenet stories are inflated 1.5 times so not to worry...

Some of the cops around here in regular cop cars, it isn't like they are
hiding, but they park just off the side of some streets and they catch
those speeders and red light runners.They catch a lot of them too.
cuhulin

On the web,
Speed Traps U.S.A.

They need the money.
cuhulin

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:51:55 -0700, johninky wrote:

> On Jul 30, 4:50 pm, Hachiroku ãƒ�ãƒ�ãƒ*ク > wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:57:47 -0700, nobody > wrote:
>> > I got one ticket written up for 148 mph on the radar as a souvenir, with
>> > VOIDED BY OFFICER across it, I wish I could find it.
>>
>> YEEEHAAA! What was the car?
>
> I'd be interested to know also. Back in the early 1970s i had a 66
> 425HP Corvette I once, and only once, took up to 140mph. Front end
> got real light around 135 and I have always believe the car would have
> gone airborne a little above 140 mph. Wasn't many cars back then that
> could break even 130 back then but once worked with a man in the steel
> mills in Ohio that got a ticket in VA for doinfg138 mph in his then
> new 68 Buick Gran Sport Rivera. The GS option came with 2 four
> barrels.


I almost got up to that...with a Corolla!!!

Back in 1986 I bought a Corolla GTS Twin Cam 1.6L with 10,000 miles on it.
My wife's sisters all lived in Oshawa Ont (home of GM Canada) and we would
go visit them in the summer.

Just outside Kingston I got left in the dust by a Volvo Bertone and a
Prelude. I figured this was as good a time as any, so I pegged it. I got
up to about 130 and, as you say, the front end got flighty. I had a
little bit more to go, but decided not to push it, esp with wifey in the
car, so I crawled back to 125 and stayed there until the other two got out
of sight, and then went back to the absolute sluggish speed of 75...