Porsche Driver gets a 160 mph ticket, Not a 914 |
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Porsche Driver gets a 160 mph ticket, Not a 914 |
Coondog |
Apr 5 2021, 08:08 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,089 Joined: 24-September 15 From: Apple Valley Calif Member No.: 19,195 Region Association: Southern California |
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Arno914 |
Apr 6 2021, 03:11 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 233 Joined: 13-May 20 From: near Frankfurt, Germany Member No.: 24,260 Region Association: Germany |
Hi wonkipop,
I remember driving in Australia back in 2007. I visited a friend of mine who lived in Melbourne back then for a years work assingnment. He came to pick me up at the airport - in Sydney! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) We drove to his home in Melbourne and I remember those endless stretches of lonely, straight outback roads. We pushed it down to the metal... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif) Maybe we were just lucky back then not to end up beeing nailed be the police. Anyways, great country, loved it! |
wonkipop |
Apr 6 2021, 03:54 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,255 Joined: 6-May 20 From: north antarctica Member No.: 24,231 Region Association: NineFourteenerVille |
Hi wonkipop, I remember driving in Australia back in 2007. I visited a friend of mine who lived in Melbourne back then for a years work assingnment. He came to pick me up at the airport - in Sydney! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) We drove to his home in Melbourne and I remember those endless stretches of lonely, straight outback roads. We pushed it down to the metal... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif) Maybe we were just lucky back then not to end up beeing nailed be the police. Anyways, great country, loved it! no worries arno. its all gone downhill since then. those roads you were on though are not outback roads. but probably seemed like that to you. you would have been either on the main interstate (hume highway) or the coast road (pacific highway). or not far off (but maybe your mate knew a few good backroads running in parallel). but still what we call civilisation. around that time i was doing a job up in albury, repeated trips up the hume from melb. the cops wouldn't bother unless you were out past 130kph. and if you were polite about it when you got pulled in, there was a warning and on your way. not now. i remember on one of those trips in summer i decided to come back over the alps. while i was up high coming down into omeo i forgot where i was. i probably had the renault 172 out past 160ks. great road. came around a big sweeping bend and the cop was there standing on the side of the road waving both hands in a downward motion. so i slowed down. that was it. today he'd have me in the back of the divvy van. there are still some roads you can try out on responsibly. but not right now. covid isolation of the country from the rest of the world has every tom dick and harry out there on the roads driving like kooks. thousands of them. all on their phones in front of swaying caravans. but its better than chinese tourists. (not a racist). apparently they get their license in a simulator. you know when you come across one because their car is stopped on the highway while they get out and look. they don't even pull off the road!! |
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