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Nuke427 · #21 (**permalink**) 03-12-2004, 03:01 PM

My gosh! Think of your family! The innocent bystanders, I can't believe you broke a law in your car! Putting your need for speed interest in front of the safety of the public!

These statements I would have expected by now, but I guess since you only got tickets and didn't total your car, it's not the same. MMMMMM.

Jamo · #22 (**permalink**) 03-12-2004, 05:39 PM

OK, how bout this one?

We had a large tomato packing shed, with culls going up a shoot and dumping into a dump truck. Several times a day (and night), we would take the full dump truck down the road to a pig farm...pretty "ripe" tomatos in the 105+ heat. Had to drive through our one-stoplight town to get there.

One late night, my brother decided to dump an entire load right in the center of town at the intersection. Stunk for weeks, and pretty damn slippery no matter how much they tried to clean it up.

Thankfully, there were about 20 tomato sheds in the area owned by the Armenians and Japanese...sheriff deputies never did solve that case.

Excaliber · #23 (**permalink**) 03-12-2004, 07:38 PM

Oh,,, so YOU were the one that got away!

Ernie

Hal Copple · #24 (**permalink**) 03-12-2004, 08:47 PM

sorry about your problem. I imagine most of us at some time have done something in a car we later regretted. Every now and then, a police or HP happens to be around. Back in '66, in my TR-4, in a tiny town in NE, cruised main street, then noted a car right behind me, decided to show him British speed, so floored it, and by the cemetery at the end of main street, going about 77 in a 25, he put on his light. I had not seen his top light, as i had my top on, and could not see his roof. So wrote out a check on the hood of his car for $25. could have been worse, tripled the speedlimit.

I won't cast any stones your way.

TERRY M KRYSTOFIAK · #25 (**permalink**) 03-12-2004, 11:08 PM

THIS BRINGS BACK MEMORIES. 1967, MARKET ST. IN SAN FRANCISCO. STOP LIGHT, 427 CORVETTE ON MY RIGHT. IM IN CSX2192. WE LIGHT UP, WEBERS KICK IN, PULL HIM REAL BAD. WATCHING THIS RUSH OF ADRINELENE ONE OF S.F.'S FINEST. BACK THEN IT WAS CALLED EXIBITION OF SPEED, A 5 POINT TICKET AND AN INSURANCE RATE "ADJUSTMENT".
ALONG WITH THIS "OLD TECH /NEW TECH" DISCUSSION, I WA AT SEARS POINT ACOUPLE OF YEARS BACK. COMING INTO TURN 3 I GET A BLUE COURESTY FLAG. CHECK MY MIRRORS, A DODGE NEON IS PUSHING ME. THE SMALL STRAIGHT BETWEEN 6-7 LEAVE HIM BAD. DOWN THE BACK STRECH THROUGH 8,9 &10 HE'S THER AGAIN. COME OUT OF 11 TO THE STRAIGHT YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THE GUT STOPPED FOR LUNCH. BACK TO #3 HE'S THERE AGAIN. EMBARRISNG WITH 600HP+. LATER A FRIEND IN ANOTHER COBRA WHO WAS BEHIND HIM SAID HE NEVER TOUCHED HIS BRAKES. ALMOST LIKE THE TORTOISE AND THE HARS!

Turk · #26 (**permalink**) 03-13-2004, 12:01 AM

Terry,
A Dodge Neon?

Please tell us it was NOT a 4DR Sedan.

Excaliber · #27 (**permalink**) 03-13-2004, 12:19 AM

Neons have ruined my day more than once,,,,, I really hate them.

Ernie

clayfoushee · #28 (**permalink**) 03-13-2004, 06:49 AM

Terry,

Great story, you're just lucky it wasn't an M-3.

Lowell W · #29 (**permalink**) 03-13-2004, 06:58 AM

Hey, Brent,

Did ya ever use a piece of PVC pipe for a "mobile launcher"? We... uh, I mean somebody I know...uh...saw one time... I mean heard about had one with a cap on the end and a slot for dropping the rocket in, with an improvised side mirror mount. Also, "I've heard" some people make much more reliable rockets from the Estes model rocket motors and about a 16" piece of 1/8" dowel rod with plastic or cardboard tube to turn the motor into a "rocket", holding about a tablespoon of flash powder (aluminum powder and potassium perchlorate)...uh...or so I'm told, anyway...

TERRY M KRYSTOFIAK · #30 (**permalink**) 03-13-2004, 02:44 PM

TURK,
ACTUALLY I THINK IT WAS A FOUR DOOR!! DIDN'T HAVE THE GUTS TO SEEK THE GUY OUT!! LAST YEAR AT NOR-CAL SPRING EVENT AT THUNDERHILL I SIGNED MY SON UP FOR THE DRIVING SCHOOL ON SAT. MORNING. TOLD HIM HE COULD TAKE THE CLASS IN MY GT350. HE THOUGHT THAT WAS GREAT, BUT WANTED TO USE IT THE REST OF THE WEEKEND OF OPEN TRACK. THATS WHERE I DREW THE LINE. ANYWAY I RENTED HIM A NEON INSTEAD. ON SUNDAY I LET HIM TAKE THE GT OUT IN YELLOW FOR A SESSION. AFTER 3-4 LAPS HE CAME IN, SAID THE CAR "JUST DOESN'T" HANDLE!!! WENT BACK OUT IN THE NEON. HE'S OUT OF THE WILL ON THAT ASSET!!! GOES TO OLDEST SON NOW!

Jamo · #31 (**permalink**) 03-13-2004, 03:09 PM

Lowell

We used to mount potato guns on tractors.

My friend and I sometimes found ourselves discing open adjoining fields about this time of year (their farm was next to ours). We used to shoot BB guns at each other, but the potato guns filled with overripe apples and citrus fruit made a bigger mess.

Lowell W · #32 (**permalink**) 03-13-2004, 06:38 PM

Jamo,

Yeah: potato guns. Every now and again I still take out my potato gun and fire off a couple of spuds. I love the smell of hairspray in the morning. It smells like...Victory!

Last fall, a friend and I spectated at the annual "Punkin' Chuckin'" competition held near here in Morton, IL. Also using vegetables as projectiles, but applying the "more is better" philosophy (hmmm...now that sounds familiar) and using compressed air rather than hairspray, the guys with the big cannon fired 10# pumpkins somewhere around 4000 feet. They were accurate enough to hit a car most of the time at about 100 yards and could smash half the side of a car in with a direct hit from a 10# pumpkin. It might be possible to mount one on a tractor...