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BilgeRat
Elio Addict
In the early eighties, I had a red Subaru wagon that was rather sun faded. I didn't drive it like an idiot, and the cops didn't seem to care. The Escort rarely went off...
I decided to have the car repainted. It was dropped off at a friend's body shop, and they repainted the car the original red while I was gone on my 30 day work cycle.
I came home to a shiny, near Ferrari red Subie! Damn, the old buggy looked new! The next day, I set out for Ft. Collins, Colorado, to go to a Woodward Governor class for a week.
I was still thirty miles from making it out of Illinois when the Escort went off the first time. He hit me with instant on, and the Escort just screamed. This was the car the cops ignored before. Hmmm.
I got zapped again just west of the Quad Cities, and again east of Des Moines, two times in Nebraska and once again in eastern Colorado. All of these was instant on at close range. Any ideas I had about speeding went away, and I behaved myself. That bright red little wagon drew trooper attention like no other car I've ever owned, even my red Miata.
I decided to have the car repainted. It was dropped off at a friend's body shop, and they repainted the car the original red while I was gone on my 30 day work cycle.
I came home to a shiny, near Ferrari red Subie! Damn, the old buggy looked new! The next day, I set out for Ft. Collins, Colorado, to go to a Woodward Governor class for a week.
I was still thirty miles from making it out of Illinois when the Escort went off the first time. He hit me with instant on, and the Escort just screamed. This was the car the cops ignored before. Hmmm.
I got zapped again just west of the Quad Cities, and again east of Des Moines, two times in Nebraska and once again in eastern Colorado. All of these was instant on at close range. Any ideas I had about speeding went away, and I behaved myself. That bright red little wagon drew trooper attention like no other car I've ever owned, even my red Miata.
I will drive according to the "feel" of the machine. I drive my Chevrolets from the early 1960s at about 55 mph. When I had my Porsche 944, I would often discover I was approaching 100mph while going to work in the morning. One had a very solid and stable feel at high speed and the other does not. I drive according to feel.
I ride my 1982 Gold Wing naked bike with its break away frame about 50 mph and never passed anyone. When I ride my 2005 Sazuki Hayabusa , I am always passing people and never usually pass doing about 120 mph. Again, one has a very solid and stable feel at high speed and the other does not. I ride according to feel.
I ride my 1982 Gold Wing naked bike with its break away frame about 50 mph and never passed anyone. When I ride my 2005 Sazuki Hayabusa , I am always passing people and never usually pass doing about 120 mph. Again, one has a very solid and stable feel at high speed and the other does not. I ride according to feel.
Go ride an early Kawasaki 900 and you'll never want to ride it again; the frames had a really bad problem with frame flex near the neck and would tend to wobble going into turns over 50 Gobs of fun; go ask any cop that used them what they thought.
wizard of ahs
Elio Addict
DITTO
I'm thinking that with the oddity of the Elio, we will All be getting stopped just so the LEO's can check it out !!!
BilgeRat
Elio Addict
Got stopped basically for that reason once with a Subaru 360 "pickup truck".
I've been stopped twice by LE . Once because he had never seen an Insight G1, and then the second time because I had to explain the sign on the rear of my car that read, "320,000 miles @ 58.0 MPG"., now it reads "376,000 miles @ 58.0 MPG".