0 to 60 in 4 + M3 + cops=tickets

[Fletch189]

Negligent Driving $275, Reckless Driving $575, Driving in a speed contest $275, Speeding 90 in a 40 $275.... Beating a Super Charged M3 ....Priceless.....

So, If you ever wondered if a super charged M3 can give you a run for your money from a stop light.... 4 tickets 5 cops and $1400 later I can tell you your money is running a lot faster than your car.

[Ron61]

Fletch,

Very good. Now what do you do for an encore? Maybe a super charged Corvette. That should be worth in the $2,500 dollar range.

Ron

[RallySnake]

Fletch,

Oooouuccchhh! That hurts....

You got any drag strips over there? Usually for $10 you can find out what your ride will do without the hassle.

Paul

[Wayne Maybury]

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jamo]

Let's put this into perspective (and Turk will back me up on this).

Me (experienced autocrosser who hasn't been out there for almost two years)...Turbo Beetle automatic with super-hard 16" OEM tires.

Mike (friend of Turk's daughter...some autocrossing experience, but young and Australian, which ought to count for something)...second generation M3 equipped with 17" SO3s.

Me...best time: 1.25

Mike...best time: 1.23

Price to enter SCCA Autocross and not incur the wrath of cops: $25.00

[Fake Snake]

Thanks for the reminder! I'm sorry it cost you $1400 to teach me a lesson! Let's see... if all the members pooled about a buck a piece...

[rdorman]

OUCH!!!!! Just hope your insurance company does not find out. The temptation is so great some times isn't it? Just say NO. Still I can't help but be glad you smoked him!
Rick

[Gary Morris]

Well there's good and bad. Sounds cool and all that stuff...but now the downside.......it makes Cobras look bad and nothing more than race cars.....I'm sure your insurance is out the door and since you can't insure it what good does it have it. From what I've read lately without an almost spotless record....no insurance company will touch you and it just gives insurance companies more amunition as to why not to insure Cobras. I have been guilty as anyone of punching it...BUT have been VERY selective as to when and where.....because I know one ticket will kill you and you can't hide or blend into traffic to get away like the M3 can. I've taken up the saying..."walk softly and carry a big stick" I know I can outrun them....there's nothing to prove. Save the racing for the track.

Yes I know I'm getting old and the mortality thing comes up when I think about it....screw up one good time in a Cobra...and your DEAD. Believe me you get this way as you get older..especially if it took you years and years to realize your dream of owning one of these. Please don't take this the wrong way as I usually don't even respond to these but just felt like putting in my .02

Gary

[Fletch189]

The sad thing is, we never broke 60 and were not really racing, just a little fun off the line, but for $1400 in tickets I should have been going 140 so I might as well fib a little so at least I can try to feel better about it.

[Gary Morris]

Got my one and only racing ticket when I was 18 in a 68LTD. Took a weeks pay to pay for it and went against my insurance the same as a DWI. Today in Texas a racing ticket will put you in jail and automatically suspend you license for a year.....it really $ucks.

Gary

[Wayne Maybury]

"we never broke 60"??????

Your initial post said Speeding 90 in a 40 zone $275.

If you didn't break 60, how come you got nailed for 90?

Wayne

[Fletch189]

I lied about the speed, 90 just sounds so much better. I'm sure I'm not the only one that does it, lol. Any way, I did the same thing I always do at light with nobody in front of me, Nail it, get to 60 and hit the brakes just for fun. There just happened to be M3 and a cop that was hidden in the bushes at this light.

[snakeeyes]

Wayne, he meant "never broke sixty over the speed limit."

Like Gary, I got "my" racing ticket when I was a teen. I'd just rebuilt the carb on my 70 Z/28 and was out minding my own business and checking out my work when a guy in a Dodge Lil' Red Express truck (the stepside truck with a 318 and "smokestack" exhaust pipes) pulled up next to me at a light. It was a four-lane road, about ten at night, and there was not another car in sight, so when he started giving it gas I figured, what the heck. Light changed, I nailed it, was in the process of soundly whipping his butt when I saw the parking lights of a car off to the side of the road...you know the rest.

That's one advantage to losing a street race, I guess...the guy in the Dodge saw what was happening and hit his brakes, hard. He cruised by as I was pulling off the road, with he and his passenger giving me a mock round of applause...humiliating.

Luckily that was, er, quite a few years ago and I "only" received a ticket for "exhibition of acceleration." Didn't help my insurance rates but it could have been worse. Nowadays I suspect I'd have been calling my Dad from jail to come bail me out.

Bob

[Jamo]

You guys are pvsseys. I've never had an actual "racing" ticket. We used to get in trouble for having water balloon jousts while driving...lots of windshields smashed.

[snakeeyes]

...I'll have to tell you about the whistling bottle rocket war we had one evening...INSIDE the car. Talk about the shallow end of the gene pool.

[flipper35]

Used to launch model rockets from a launcher strapped to my t-tops. Was told "Don't do it again". I think he didn't know what to write the ticket as since the rockets are legal.

Also have an uncle that was cited for failure to maintain control while riding a wheelie up main street in Mineral Point. He won in court whe the judge agreed with him saying he was obviously in control going that far.

[snakeeyes]

...but your comment about the wheelie, Brent, reminded me of something I saw a couple of weeks ago. I was grabbing a burger at a drive-through at lunchtime. While sitting at the window waiting for my change I was facing the intersection of a major, six-lane street and another heavily-traveled four lane. All of a sudden this guy on a sport bike coasts through the intersection, STANDING UP on the seat. He had his hands on his hips like friggin' Napoleon or something. People were honking their horns like it was a parade.

Good thing for him the light was green in his direction, and there were no cops around. I've seen the "Ghost Rider" DVD, with all of the bike stunts pictured thereon, but to see it unexpectedly in real-life was pretty bizarre--

[LURK]

I just have to add that this thread reminds me of the old joke:

Q: What were the redneck's last words?

A: Hey ya'll, watch this!

-JT

[Quentin Z]

I thought it was:

Hold my Beer. Watch this.

[clayfoushee]

Fletch.....

Where were you when you did that? It's close to home, and I hope you're not insured by my company........ No sermon, but this insurance thing is getting serious, and if we want to keep these cars on the road, we'd better be careful.