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Got a reckles driving ticket about 9 years ago in Jasper, GA. I was behind a Ford Probe Turbo that was trying to get me to race. He would slow down to 25-30mph (55mph zone, two lane road) and when I would signal to pass, he would floor it. Well, I put up with this for about 5 attempts and then I got fed up. As we started going up a mountain, I geared down, no signal and flew past him. As I passed, he swerved toward me. I just kept the hammer down and left him behind. What I didn't know was there was a cop coming up a driveway and saw the pass. I saw distant blue lights and knew they were for me so I pulled over to the side and waited, and waited, and waited. His Crown Vic was smelling hot when he finally pulled in behind me. Told me he clocked me at 50something but I got out of sight of the radar and he "knows I was going substantially faster." He told me he was ticketing me for reckless driving. I tried to explain my actions but he was not hearing it. Went to court and there were 37 out of 50 traffic tickets charged with reckless driving. Standard procedure was to plead to a moving violation with no points but pay the reckless driving fee..$375.00 plus $50.00 court cost. No, this wasn't a racket.............
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1986 3.2 Carrera
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