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I have never suffered from road rage. It was a bit more like road exasperation!. I was tootling home at about 4AM at the speed limit a bit pissed when a car came up behind me and put it's headlights on high beam. This car then moved to within about 200mm from my back bumper. I just put the 1979 Ford LTD (400hp fully worked) in first and planted the throttle. As it changed into second at 67MPH and then proceeded down the road in second gear until it changed from second to third at about 97MPH and then proceeded to accellerate to about 130MPH I decided to back off as the pipsqueak commodore was nowhere in my rear vision mirror.
As I pulled into my driveway about ten minutes later five police cars surrounded my vehicle just like in the movies. It seems that inadvertently what I thought were just your average hoons were actually police in an underpowered unmarked police car.
One young constable kept asking his superiors 'can I drive this car back to the station please?' The sargeant in charge said 'I think this car is far safer just left here.'
It is very strange when you are busted like this and all the police want to do is look under the bonnet of your car.
Their comment in court was 'the defendants car made our commodore which was valve bouncing in all gears look like it was standing still!'
It is far safer tweaking optics than fast cars!
Bert
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