Caught doing 120 mph!!!

[floorMatt]

Let me preface this by saying that I'm not an *******...I don't drive like a maniac all over town, whipping past old ladies at crosswalks and crowded playgrounds. No, there's a place (c'mon, everyone has their PLACE) where I feel comfortable pushing the limits a bit. It's a tunnel about a mile long going in one direction, there are no pedestrians allowed, and no turnoffs/onramps...the speed limit is 45. That being said...Friday night, about 11:30 I enter the tunnel and let out the hounds. Redline through the gears, foot on the floor, grin from ear to ear. I let off at 120mph as I was leaving the tunnel and returning to real life. I slowed to just over the speed limit and drove for another mile or so to a stoplight where I noticed a police car behind me. I rounded the corner and he put on his lights to pull me over. Long story short...he was in the tunnel behind me (didn't see him) and held on 'till about 90mph where I positively toasted him and his police cruiser . He wrote me a municipal code violation ticket which has the equivalent bearing on my record as a parking ticket. I don't have to go to traffic school and I don't have anything on my record. What the Heck?! Has this happened to anyone else before? Am I just THAT lucky (75mph over the limit is grounds for arrest). To top it off, the officer was nice as punch and never told me to SLOW DOWN, just "drive safe". Had to share.

Matt
80 SC

[Planter91C2]

hey, didn't you hear what happened to princess diana in a tunnel?

just kidding!!!!

you must have a horseshoe up your azz to get that lucky. i hope i am so fortunate when i'm caught.


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Daryl 964 Targa

[adamnitti]

Originally posted by Planter91C2:
hey, didn't you hear what happened to princess diana in a tunnel?

just kidding!!!!

you must have a horseshoe up your azz to get that lucky. i hope i am so fortunate when i'm caught.

Hee Hee!!! I like the "WHEN" in "when I'm caught." No "IF's" about it!

I just think it's amazing that every time I decide to push the envelope just a little in my car, THAT's the time that the police cars start appearing from nowhere. I've just about given up. I don't want any tickets. In town it's Grandma's-ville for me!



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Adam Nitti
ajnitti@mindspring.com
www.adamnitti.com
'85 911 Carrera Coupe
PCA member, Peachstate region

[davis911s]

You would be surprised at how often this happens. Police Officers are people too and they know what it's like. He knew that you put no-one in danger and just had to make a point of letting you know.

Best bet when pulled over....be nice, act like an idiot and you'll get hats coming.

Shawn

[RaF944]

I just got pulled over yesterday for doing 61 in a 45.... He let me go because i was in a Porsche! He said I know its heavy artilary but you have to abide by the rules and regualtions! Also my brother had a Police Handbook in the hatch so that helped out! Heh he gave me the envelope with no ticket inside to try to scare me...he said I can keep the envelope....so i got a warning instead of a $140 ticket....I think I need to buy something for my car to celebrate

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85.5 Porsche 944

[pwd72s]

See, not ALL cops are badasses, as some on a string some time ago seemed to believe. I've met both kinds. But believe me, we need these guys....

[Jdub]

The majority of police officers are great folks to have a beer with. If you've never been to a chili cook-off between fire and police folk you owe yourself.

That said, police are usually a*#holes when we make them so. You are one lucky SOB to have avoided a night in jail and no driving privileges.

My opinion; flame away!

Jw

[floorMatt]

Just got the details in the mail...The ticket is $136, I can just mail it back w/ a check. HA! Cheap as dirt if you ask me. I'll probabily take it easy for awhile anyways though.

[joehahn]

I was flying through a giant strip mall parking lot late one night in an Audi 4000s dressed as Indiana Jones (then girlfriend, now wife, dressed as Indy's girlfriend...Halloween Party)) when we hit a 4 inch high curb. All 4 wheels left the ground. I felt like I was the valet guy driving that old Ferrari in Ferris Bueller's day off.

You guessed it, cop was discretely parked in corner of the lot. He drove up, as we had stopped to take inventory of what happened, threw lights on, walked up and took license. I literally felt like I was going to die. I started in with the "sir, I uh, I uh, I uh..." He just stood there for literally a minute looking at me (presumably to see if I was drunk?, smell alcohol? I dont really know?) He then said "I have never in my life seen anything like that" handed me my license and drove away. Unbelievable! I made it about a mile and then had to have mine towed as axles and so forth were bent.

Joe 68L

[Dave Bouzaglou]

We had a group of 3 porsches going to the Monterey Historics one year. As we left in the evening, we decided to take San Marcos Pass, above Santa Barbara, to save on total distance and time. San Marcos used to be fairly empty in the evening, so we availed ourselves of the circumstances and enjoyed hassle free 125 mph cruising. When we rejoined Highway 101 north towards Monterey, our conservative 75 mph seemed like we were standing still. Well we endeavored to keep the pace down, since the stretch between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo was notorious for lots of CHP. That didn't last long as some pesky guy in a Chevy V% S 10 pick up kept egging us on to go faster. Well, you guessed it, three feet hit the floor and we resumed our 125 mph pace all the way till the Madonna Inn (San Luis Obispo) exit (where we were to rendezvous with some other P car fanctics). While blisfully unaware of what was really going on out there, a CHP cruiser came up real smooth on our waiting for the light to change group and blasted us with his loud hailer system! "YOU IN THE PORSCHES- DON'T MOVE!! WE HAVE YOUR LICENSE PLATE NUMBERS,WAIT TILL THE LIGHT TURNS GREEN AND PULL OVER! " Just after we did we were treated to a nice display of CHP Mustangs, Camaros, the ubiquitous Dodges all circling us. "Oh my gawd- we are in soooo much deeeep sh**!" we thought. Well , after introducing ourselves (license, registration, where we were going- the usual) The head CHP officer tells us he had been chasing us since we pulled out of San MArcos Pass. We were leaving him in the dust and since he thought we were trying to outrun him, had called to set up a blockade !! (hence all the cavalry that had showed up so quickly) As the color drained from our faces of our now shaking bodies, he took pity on us ( we were also extremely polite!) and asked us what we felt our non negotiable guilty speed was. We jokingly explored 65 mph (this was in 55 mph max times) and worked our way up to a generally accepted 75 mph figure. After thanking all the officers profusely (also using up my Ban roll on) and signing our promises to appear, we stole off into the night figuring we had just won the lottery. Officers can be quite nice at times. Glad that most are too.

[Joe Bob]

As a Porsche driver I say lucky you....

As a resident of that area I say....gimme me a break.

125 on that road.....geez, I have a problem with 125 on the straight and narrow hwy 101 road that you were trying to avoid. That road was built by homeless people during the WPA period of the Great Depression. Can you say roads built for drainage and not traction?

There are SO many drunks and rich idiotic yuppie twits that live off that road, it's ridiculous. Bo Derrick lives up there.....and she's the smart one.....

[83 sc euro cab]

did you have the top down during your 120 mph
run?

[JonSeigel]

I beg to differ. Was recently ticketed for going about 70 in a 55 zone on a freeway. Motorcycle cop. Sunday morning, absolutely harmless, no one around, no danger, not switching lanes or being an ------- in any way. I was nice and respectful with the cop in the hope that he would let me go with a warning, but he wrote me up anyway. It's about MONEY and, in my case, had NOTHING to do with safety. Sorry about the screaming, but I get worked up just thinking about it.

[5axis]

Originally posted by 83 sc euro cab:
did you have the top down during your 120 mph
run?

83 I have run my turbo cab well past 140 top down and enjoyed every second of the noise. The car seemed to be asking "that all ya got??" and was quite willing to go for more.

david 89 turbo cab

[83 sc euro cab]

Originally posted by 5axis:

83 I have run my turbo cab well past 140 top down and enjoyed every second of the noise. The car seemed to be asking "that all ya got??" and was quite willing to go for more.

david 89 turbo cab

140? what would happen if you hit something on a road, like a rock, and went flying...did you have your seat belt on at least, or a roll cage.....when I had my 84 930, I have a partial roll cage in the back. people on the street thought I was nuts cruising at 30 mph with a roll cage, heh heh....

can you really

[Norm Faustino]

I used to do about 120 (regularly) through the Webster tunnel in Alameda, on my 91 Honda VFR, Never got caught, but I did get the break of my life on Grizzly peak road after getting caught in a speed trap. I was only doing 50, but I was in a 60 degree bank so the cop told me to sit up straight and slow down. California cops are the coolest.

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78 Super Carrera

[5axis]

83 I am a bit of a thrill seeker but not stupid. I am on the fringes of Illinois farm country and have several top secret roads that I have used for years setting up gsxrs back in the pre EFI days. I take some time and pre flight before doing this stuff and do a out and back on the road to look over it's condition. BTW the car has a very planted, reassuring feeling at that speed and is quite easy to drive but I can't hear the radio very well

[jbripps]

Love the stories above. Some are classic. Bottom line.....there really is no better buzz than hearing the engine start to roar when you hit 105 on a fast acceleration, and you are still working your way up. MAJOR ADRENALINE RUSH. My car literally starts to roar, and sound like the "race car" that it is. I have an '85 targa, and I am still AMAZED how well my machine handles at high speeds (in safe conditions of course).

[83 sc euro cab]

that's so awsome to think that our 20 year old 911 cars with their technology still kick some major ass even in todays standards.....overheard some woman at the bank today talking about how she just bought a brand new 2001 Saturn and how sporty it was....i just smiled. too bad a lot of people are too afraid to own early 911s, i see very few on the road.

amazing.

[TomV]

Got to agree. Work for Saturn, but need a 911 (Still Looking). Maybe a middle age thing ?