Ronnie
Jetboaters Fleet Admiral
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This post is inspired by posts I’ve read in @Julian neighbor thread.
to start, I was once upon a time that young cocky kid / man who drove sports cars faster than I should have. Thankfully I never caused an accident or injuries.
1. In high school I drove an ‘87 Pontiac trans am. One night I was driving on a freeway downhill and doing over 100 mph when I passed a highway patrol motorcycle. The cop was cool in that he did give me a ticket but for speeding under 100 mph. I’ve always heard at 100+ you get arrested and your car impounded. I’m doing so he said, “son you looked like a piece of sky lab coming down the hill”.
Around $50 for traffic school, this before they made you go to school and pay the fine.
2. a few years later I was driving from Northern California to back to college in Southern California in my ‘89 Mitsubishi starion turbo. I was on the grape vine which is the 4 lane highway (in each direction) through the mountain range separating northern / central California from what most people think of as Southern California when a C4 corvette pulled up next to me so we started racing, on the way up a 300zx joined us.
I was in third when we reached the top of the range, I looked over to see the chp parking lot in Lebec. Of course I didn’t slow down. The a few seconds later I was going over 120 mph when I looked in my rear view mirror to see a chp mustang on my ass, lights flashing and siren blaring. I hit the brakes he pulled up next to me and got on the speaker, driver follow me, driver follow me. So I did the best I could but he lost me (I couldn’t exit the freeway because there weren’t any exits for miles. Not long after that he and eventually I caught the 300 zx. We both followed the mustang until it caught the corvette. That’s when we all pulled over and got tickets. He wrote me up for 75 mph, at the time the speed limit was 55 mph. My response, “thank you”. I wondered how fast the Vette was going but was smart enough not to ask. $400 plus traffic school.
3. finally a few years back, I was on the big island of HI traveling in a convertible mustang, when I past a parked mustang on the other side of the road. Turned out to be a cop who pulled out, did a u-turn and gave me a ticket for doing 50 in a 35. The ticket Came with an envelope . $55 if under 20 mph over the limit, $85 for doing 21 + mph over the limit. The cop then told me about three other speed zones / speed traps along my route being monitored by his fellow officers. $55.
Alright, who else is brave or dumb enough to fess up?
to start, I was once upon a time that young cocky kid / man who drove sports cars faster than I should have. Thankfully I never caused an accident or injuries.
1. In high school I drove an ‘87 Pontiac trans am. One night I was driving on a freeway downhill and doing over 100 mph when I passed a highway patrol motorcycle. The cop was cool in that he did give me a ticket but for speeding under 100 mph. I’ve always heard at 100+ you get arrested and your car impounded. I’m doing so he said, “son you looked like a piece of sky lab coming down the hill”.
Around $50 for traffic school, this before they made you go to school and pay the fine.
2. a few years later I was driving from Northern California to back to college in Southern California in my ‘89 Mitsubishi starion turbo. I was on the grape vine which is the 4 lane highway (in each direction) through the mountain range separating northern / central California from what most people think of as Southern California when a C4 corvette pulled up next to me so we started racing, on the way up a 300zx joined us.
I was in third when we reached the top of the range, I looked over to see the chp parking lot in Lebec. Of course I didn’t slow down. The a few seconds later I was going over 120 mph when I looked in my rear view mirror to see a chp mustang on my ass, lights flashing and siren blaring. I hit the brakes he pulled up next to me and got on the speaker, driver follow me, driver follow me. So I did the best I could but he lost me (I couldn’t exit the freeway because there weren’t any exits for miles. Not long after that he and eventually I caught the 300 zx. We both followed the mustang until it caught the corvette. That’s when we all pulled over and got tickets. He wrote me up for 75 mph, at the time the speed limit was 55 mph. My response, “thank you”. I wondered how fast the Vette was going but was smart enough not to ask. $400 plus traffic school.
3. finally a few years back, I was on the big island of HI traveling in a convertible mustang, when I past a parked mustang on the other side of the road. Turned out to be a cop who pulled out, did a u-turn and gave me a ticket for doing 50 in a 35. The ticket Came with an envelope . $55 if under 20 mph over the limit, $85 for doing 21 + mph over the limit. The cop then told me about three other speed zones / speed traps along my route being monitored by his fellow officers. $55.
Alright, who else is brave or dumb enough to fess up?
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I didn’t know what to do, was he writing a ticket? Was he radioing someone to see what to do with us? Sat there for a good 5 minutes and he drove away. So I left, so dang scary! Looking back on stupid crap I have done, this trip always comes to mind, we didn’t tell anyone where we were going, hell, we didn’t even know exactly where we were going. Stayed a some hotel type place by a random ski slope we found, had a good time but since this was before cell phones and all that I have no idea what I would have done if we would have gotten stranded on the way, that cop took me to jail, got hurt skiing….so many ways that could have turned into a terrible situation!
He turned his lights on and I pulled right over into a parking lot. I took my helmet off as he got to me, his face changed demeanor when he saw me, I guess I was was much older than he expected, I was about 30 at the time. He askedwhy I did that, I told him I normally never do anything like that in town but the one time I do there he is. He said “I just ask that you do things like that out of town where no one is around, young kids buy these bikes and see you dowheelies or whatever and then they try it and get hurt….”.
