I was going 116 mph in a VW Rabbit back in HS...

Of course, we had a tailwind and we were going down the side of a mountain.

RP

 

$175.00

Parking in a handicap stopped in front of a library to return a book. Was there for about 3 minutes. A little over $58.00 a minute.
As far as the 140 mph......been there done that

 

A guy got busted doing 160mph down Lake Shore Drive in Chicago a couple years ago on a Honda 600 something or other.

http://www.utahsba.com/html/news/160mphF4.html

My best was reckless driving, squealing the tires and swerving between lanes, back in '84. I think it was about a $100 fine and supervision.

Also got one for "excessive squealing of tires" in 2000 or so. (Mustangs are great for this)

 

So far it looks like I'm the "bad boy" of the group.

 

I forgot to mention, when the officer asked if I knew why he pulled me over, I said "No." real sarcastic like.

 

Slightly OT here but...
A few weeks ago I saw an older F150 with a lift & big tires, he was in front of me at a traffic light.
So I'm admiring his truck, and I see his bumper sticker:
"Bad Cop, No Donut!"

Now here's a guy that clearly doesnt mind getting hammered by the "full extent of the law" LMAO

I laughed for a good 5 minutes.

 

Ever see one of those funny videos where the guy on the bike goes by a cop doing well over a hundred? I did it in a 1994 Firehawk at 160+ on I-49 in Louisiana. My exit was coming up about 5 miles ahead. I never saw him again. Luckily it's a very rural piece of road.

No major violation tickets.

 

My highest ticket cost me $667 and 1 year probation.

Driving while Revoked is not a good thing (Especially not 5 times in 3 months). I ended up with 32 points against my license and my liablility only insurance cost me nearly $300 per month when i finally got my license back.

 

well I got a ticket once for doing 95mph in 50 mph, but I got out of that one - sorry a$$ county mounty. I wasn't speeding until he floew up behind me at 2:00 AM on a dark country road - ON CHRISTMAS!!!

probably the most expensive ticket was for ~$90 for doing a 74 mph in 55 mph.

our sorry law makers shold listen to the people and raise the absurdly low speed limits. It keeps getting proposed and going before the state legislature, and then getting rejected becasue of the insurance companies lobbying against it.

 

Far be it from me to poke fun at Windsor's finest but there must be more to this story than the bare bones article.

As a former Cop, I had my fair share of high speed chases.
If I was anywhere near the speed of the offender, I had a chance if I had a good car (61/62 Fords and Dodges). If I had to start from scratch on a car that was doing 100, let alone 140, no way except to radio ahead.

I only mention this as the newspaper article said something like "all I heard was a noise and a blur" or some such and then this Camaro ran down a guy doing 140 plus? That was the inference of the article. Best case assumption is that the Camaro may have been doing 70-80 mph as the GA State Patrol cars often do here. If that dude was doing 140, the Camaro would never have caught him in my personal opinion, just too much speed to overcome. On the other hand if the dude chickened out and started to try to get off the highway then the Officer could have pulled it off.

As to the other question, worst ticket was for a legit 120 mph in South Carolina in a Saab Rallye Car that I had built in Sweden when I was in charge of Parts and Service for Saab here in the States in 1986. I honestly don't remember the horsepower numbers but it was an awesome car, full ***** to the wall Euro Spec Rally car. Roll cage and the whole bit. So bad we couldn't register it (ran it on manufacturer plates for six months). Finally sent it to Canada where I suppose it resides today.

OOOPS, almost forgot, that 120 was in third gear at top rpms about to shift into fourth. I was in the process of blowing off a Corvette of indeterminate state of tune who wanted to play with the ugly Swede. If I remember correctly, the way this car was geared it was good for about 145/150 mph. As I remember the speedo only registered to 220KPH

I believe the ticket cost about $400 but no points because I still had my International Drivers Licence (I lived overseas for six years) and I speak pretty good Swedish so I spoke Swenglish with the Officer and the JP and just paid them a whole bunch of money.

Interesting memories this thread brought up.
Bill

 

Multiply that times 5000 to get a closer figure.

 

nothing for me!! *knocks on wood*

 

Not trying to argue, but I don't think it would be a big deal for a "Police" Camaro to run down someone running 140 MPH, especially if the highway was somewhat limited-access and the pursuee is unaware of the officer until he's getting close.

A factory Z28 is capable of 107 or so in a 1/4 mile. It takes it about 13 1/2 seconds to get there too. The police version is undoubtedly more powerful than that.

As far as 61/62 Fords/Dodges/Chevys, they could not hold a candle to todays' pursuit vehicles. I know they had huge engines, but they also had huge waistlines, inferior suspensions and poor aerodynamics. Wind resistance overcomes horsepower very quickly.

The main reason that cars can do high speeds today is because of superior aerodynamics - and they do it with much smaller displacement engines.

 

Many years ago I went flying by a stopped Colorado Trooper westbound on I-70 doing 122 MPH in my '70 Dodge Charger R/T (440 CID - 390 HP, Holley 2300 6-pack, Dana 60 rear axle, Mallory racing distributor, all stock) while racing one of those old Mustang Mach I's that were so light in the rear and easy to beat. We both went shooting past the cop on a long dual-lane offramp, cop was on the shoulder of the interstate just past the ramp and he must have freaked seeing two cars go by that fast. He couldn't get to us without backing up and we split at the bottom of the ramp and I don't think he even tried to pursue.

New, smaller muscle cars may be more aero, but that Charger R/T did 13's right off the dealer floor. You did NOT want to go around any tight corners however ;-) And it could go through a tank of hi-octane gas in an evening ;-)

Got a ticket in my 84 VW Rabbit GTi for doing 65 in a 55 on the San Diego freeway. Six weeks later they moved the limit up to 65. Fine, traffic school fee, etc etc amounted to $135 as I recall. I was not happy about this.

No tickets in the F-150. Cops just don't look for it, and there's 30,000 college students in town to write up.

 

B-Man, I gotta disagree with you... Let's say the cop starts rolling as soon as the car passes him. Even allowing 107 in the quarter, how long do you think it would take him to get to 140? I'd bet you'd be looking at a minute (or maybe more) to get up to a speed that high, and cover a mile or so.

My point is that the police car uses at least a minute just getting to a speed where the speeder is no longer pulling away from him... So now, they are both going 140, a mile or more apart (out of visible range, most likely), since the speeder went nearly 2 1/2 miles during the minute that the cop car was getting up to speed, and the cop still has not closed any of the distance between them. what do you suppose the top speed of the cop car is? I doubt that it could even get to 140, since I'd bet it's geared too short for high speed running - but let's say they can get to 150 or 155.

It's going to take that police car some time to grind down that next 10 mph, due to the exponential relationship between horsepower requirements and increasing speeds. Just for argument's sake, let's say that he can jump instantly to 150 - now you have the perp going 140 and the cop going 150 with ~1mile separating them.....How long will it take for the cop to close that mile?

6 minutes.

That's right, 6 minutes - even though the speed of both vehicles is very high, the relative speed is only 10 mph, and at that speed a mile takes 6 minutes - during which time the speeder has covered 14 miles - which is an extraordinarily long pursuit.

I just can't see it.....

Anyway, here's something to think about:

You have a race track which is a circle exactly 1 mile in length. You drive one lap at 30 miles per hour.
How fast must you drive the second lap in order to average 60 mph for both laps?


Food for thought....

Allen