One lucky guy last Saturday
Last Saturday a few of us went to the Lexington Kentucky Keenland Concourse d'Elegance. I drove the FGT and a friend drove my SPF Cobra. On the way home we decided we would take the back roads for a leisurely drive back to Bowling Green. Just before we exited we passed a State Trooper going the opposite direction; I looked at my speed 80 MPH (70 limit). The lights came on and he came around after us. We had begun to exit and he came around me and pulled the SPF over. I thought he had not gone for me but for John in the Cobra. Wrong.
He pointed to me to pull over as well. He went to John and asked for his license and asked him to step out of the car. Bad news. Then he came to me and same routine, out of the car. I thought OK, we are going to jail. He thinks we were racing (we weren't). Thoughts: higher insurance rates, loss of job, wife laughing saying, "I told you so!"
He asked John what he did for a living, VP of a University, then me, Director of an Advanced Technology Institute. He said John had been speeding at 84 MPH. Lecturing us, "At your ages and occupations you should know better." BUT, he said he understood the difficulty of keeping the speed down with these two "beautiful cars," so just a warning! Then we talked cars, Ford engines, his son's Ford truck that runs 146 MPH. A car guy, yes!
But we were lucky for sure. Then I got the nerve to ask for a photo and he said sure, but why? I said so that I could assist the enforcement of speed control of course. "So how fast have you had this car?" Hmmmm. My response, "Well only 80 today. But it's capable of speeds over 200 mph according to Ford." His only response was that he hoped we would have tried to outrun him so that he could have seen what they would do. I said, "Yes they are fast, but not faster than your radio signals." We laughed, he didn't laugh much, but we took pictures, and now it is my avatar for a while. Below is a better look. Bottom line, watch your speed, even 10 MPH over the limit, with these cars, they kind of stick out in a crowd.
Last Saturday a few of us went to the Lexington Kentucky Keenland Concourse d'Elegance. I drove the FGT and a friend drove my SPF Cobra. On the way home we decided we would take the back roads for a leisurely drive back to Bowling Green. Just before we exited we passed a State Trooper going the opposite direction; I looked at my speed 80 MPH (70 limit). The lights came on and he came around after us. We had begun to exit and he came around me and pulled the SPF over. I thought he had not gone for me but for John in the Cobra. Wrong.
He pointed to me to pull over as well. He went to John and asked for his license and asked him to step out of the car. Bad news. Then he came to me and same routine, out of the car. I thought OK, we are going to jail. He thinks we were racing (we weren't). Thoughts: higher insurance rates, loss of job, wife laughing saying, "I told you so!"
He asked John what he did for a living, VP of a University, then me, Director of an Advanced Technology Institute. He said John had been speeding at 84 MPH. Lecturing us, "At your ages and occupations you should know better." BUT, he said he understood the difficulty of keeping the speed down with these two "beautiful cars," so just a warning! Then we talked cars, Ford engines, his son's Ford truck that runs 146 MPH. A car guy, yes!
But we were lucky for sure. Then I got the nerve to ask for a photo and he said sure, but why? I said so that I could assist the enforcement of speed control of course. "So how fast have you had this car?" Hmmmm. My response, "Well only 80 today. But it's capable of speeds over 200 mph according to Ford." His only response was that he hoped we would have tried to outrun him so that he could have seen what they would do. I said, "Yes they are fast, but not faster than your radio signals." We laughed, he didn't laugh much, but we took pictures, and now it is my avatar for a while. Below is a better look. Bottom line, watch your speed, even 10 MPH over the limit, with these cars, they kind of stick out in a crowd.
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