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Doctor_Fun:

acfurla:

Doctor_Fun:

Bryan S:

Doctor_Fun:

Rogue employee?  Look at the video and then visit the website and look at the staff.  Mmm hmm... 

Rouge employee was a quote from the owner. 

Correct.  That is not what I was getting at.  Look at the guy still framed in the news story and then view the dealer's website.  It might be that one could figure out who the "unnamed "speeder and "rogue employee" really is.  

 

 

Hey Kyle...you are the detective! Still driving the Shelby? My Pony has been hibernating this winter...

Shelby is in mothballs!  She is coming out in early March for another romp with my wife driving AX this season.  Should be fun.  Been driving the snow Corvette.

Kyle...you are brave to drive a Vette in the snow/sleet...I resort to FWD for the winter season...since my toy collection all are RWD...

acfurla:

Doctor_Fun:

acfurla:

Doctor_Fun:

Bryan S:

Doctor_Fun:

Rogue employee?  Look at the video and then visit the website and look at the staff.  Mmm hmm... 

Rouge employee was a quote from the owner. 

Correct.  That is not what I was getting at.  Look at the guy still framed in the news story and then view the dealer's website.  It might be that one could figure out who the "unnamed "speeder and "rogue employee" really is.  

 

 

Hey Kyle...you are the detective! Still driving the Shelby? My Pony has been hibernating this winter...

Shelby is in mothballs!  She is coming out in early March for another romp with my wife driving AX this season.  Should be fun.  Been driving the snow Corvette.

Kyle...you are brave to drive a Vette in the snow/sleet...I resort to FWD for the winter season...since my toy collection all are RWD...

Brave?  Stupid is probably the better choice of words.  That 436 HP really gets the power down on slippery surfaces.  Everything I own is RWD except the wife's car.  Wouldn't have it any other way - although there are times...

Doctor_Fun:

I say boys will be boys, and all is fair as long as no one gets hurt!  Really, that's how I feel. You go, Lambo-man!   ;)

Kyle, you are probably one of the few guys that shares my sentiment.  In a past life, you and I were brothers.  Back when I used to have my Scooby, it was not out of the ordinary for me to cruise at triple digits. I can not even count the times I have done 150, I have lost track.  I did get it up to about 170 one day ( 3 am, long straight, no traffic).  I wasn't swerving through traffic, doing things to put others at risk, speeding when there is a lot of traffic, etc.  But if I had a long open, lane I drove at whatever felt comfy.  I have very deep resentment for the speed limit.  It is not easy for many to have my perspective, I grew up in Germany and feel much safer driving there at 150 then I do here doing 70.  If you are going to buy a Lambo, you had better put it to its intended use.  Seeing a car like that in the hands of some anal retentive, half-alive individual is like seeing a hot young girl being married to an old whale who has no sex drive. 

P.S. I am going to get seriously flamed, I know, I know!!!!!

Arshad M.:

Doctor_Fun:

I say boys will be boys, and all is fair as long as no one gets hurt!  Really, that's how I feel. You go, Lambo-man!   ;)

 I wasn't swerving through traffic, doing things to put others at risk,

That's my deal.  I don't have an issue with me dying in a fiery car crash, but I am not taking someone else with me.  I never misbehaved when others were around for the most part (once I wasn't 16 anymore).  These days I usually have my "hot young girl" with me so I have to act like an old whale and drive the speed limit or I get my ass chewed!   I keep my speeds reasonable these days because getting arrested for any reason - even excessive speeding - can be a career problem.  Knowing that Vette will do 192 is a hard thing to take and I have only gotten it to about 140-ish before I had to brake for turn one at Gateway.

I also have a deep resentment for speed limits and authority and other public officials I will not mention here.  Other than that I am an upstanding citizen.

P.S.  A Subaru will do 170?  Down hill, tailwind, no lie detector?
 

Arshad M.:

  It is not easy for many to have my perspective, I grew up in Germany and feel much safer driving there at 150 then I do here doing 70.  If you are going to buy a Lambo, you had better put it to its intended use.  

P.S. I am going to get seriously flamed, I know, I know!!!!!

Um actually no. The biggest difference though between U.S. drivers and German drivers is that  the latter have a much better understanding of driving at speed and the consequences of a mistake. Americans typically want to simply flat foot it and go, often while on the cell phone or with the venti caramel machiato in the other hand and the audio system at full volume. It think this is due to the difference in motorsports. Germans and Italians have a long history of road racing, speeding up and slowing down and paying attention on windy roads is part of the driving DNA. Here its all about NASCAR and drag racing, which to the average spectator looks just like their morning commute. 

Sadly today there are simply not many places near cities with low enough traffic where driving fast isn't going to create big risks, especially when coupled with the lack of skill. In short, if we'd train our drivers better, we'd be able to have faster safer roads. I often think about this when I'm on my bike in the Wildwood area. Wildhorse Creek, Ossenfort, Melrose and Allenton were great sports car roads twenty years ago, but the increased development and related traffic have made them far to busy to fully enjoy.

Doctor_Fun:

 

P.S.  A Subaru will do 170?  Down hill, tailwind, no lie detector?
 

 

You need to have the electronic governor off, a stage 2 set up ( full exhaust/ecu tune), larger than stock diameter tires, and a whole bunch of straight real estate. I-270 northbound from South County.  Squeezing the last few mph out of a car with the aerodynamics of a brick is painful and seems to take forever.

Arshad M.:

Doctor_Fun:

 

P.S.  A Subaru will do 170?  Down hill, tailwind, no lie detector?
 

 

 

You need to have the electronic governor off, a stage 2 set up ( full exhaust/ecu tune), larger than stock diameter tires, and a whole bunch of straight real estate. I-270 northbound from South County.  Squeezing the last few mph out of a car with the aerodynamics of a brick is painful and seems to take forever.

It's a cool car.  I may trade the Vette for an '06/'07 as a daily driver so I can rallycross.  Not at 170 though. 

I think driving fast (while not hurting others) is in all of our DNA on this forum.  But I hope we don't have the stupid gene to film it and put it on the internet for the police to come and arrest us.  That is the part that was so funny.  It was like the segment on world dumbest criminals.

No counting anything we did stupid before we were 17.......... Before I was legal to drive I got the grand idea to borrow the family car and drive from Ballas road down to Lindbergh and cruise between Schneithorsts and Parkmor and Steak n' Shake (Clayton and Lindberg - to Manchester and Lindberg - to Watson and Lindberg). all Saturday night.   Did this quite a few times.  Like no one would notice 3 - 14 year olds in a big green caddy.  Well they didn't - we never did get caught.  Had never driven a car when I did the 1st time.  But got pretty good in 2 years of this and learned to get the caddy up it's max on Ballas rd.  My Mother always complained that her car got terrible gas milage though because it was always our of gas on Monday when she left for work. 

Bryan S:

Um actually no. The biggest difference though between U.S. drivers and German drivers is that  the latter have a much better understanding of driving at speed and the consequences of a mistake. Americans typically want to simply flat foot it and go, often while on the cell phone or with the venti caramel machiato in the other hand and the audio system at full volume. It think this is due to the difference in motorsports. Germans and Italians have a long history of road racing, speeding up and slowing down and paying attention on windy roads is part of the driving DNA. Here its all about NASCAR and drag racing, which to the average spectator looks just like their morning commute. 

Bryan, thank you for not flaming me ( even though my flame-proof suit was already on ). I completely agree with what you stated. 

Jan, you are a wild one.  I'll be careful from now on when I drive on Ballas.

Germans, and most European country's  take driving, and driver training and very seriously . whereas Americans think its our god given right to pound around in our slushbox equipped land yachts, oblivious to others on the roadways.

I use to cruise & street race..one of the good "spots" was gumbo flats... 

Janice Rick:

Before I was legal to drive I got the grand idea to borrow the family car and drive from Ballas road down to Lindbergh and cruise between Schneithorsts and Parkmor and Steak n' Shake (Clayton and Lindberg - to Manchester and Lindberg - to Watson and Lindberg). all Saturday night.   Did this quite a few times.  Like no one would notice 3 - 14 year olds in a big green caddy.  Well they didn't - we never did get caught. 

That's pretty funny considering now if you're doing 50 down that stretch Frontenac PD likely to be waiting for you at the top of the hill...

Why was he passing people in the slow lane????   Because nearly 100% of Missouri drivers are lousy and drive slow in the fast lane. In some parts of the world (like everywhere but missouri) the left lane is considered the passing lane.

When in Germany I rented a Passat TDI wagon. Cruising at about 100mph I passed a car and then moved over to the "slow" lane still doing 100mph. Within 10 seconds a Black Mercedes blew by at 160+.  After passing me at 160 mph plus guess what he did??  He (not being from Missouri) pulled over into the slow lane. Why would he do that? Because someone may have wanted to drive at 180.

Did I mention that Missouri drivers really try my patience?

F5coupe:

Did I mention that Missouri drivers really try my patience?

 

 

I know, man - it's almost as bad as Illinois drivers............

Seriously tho - you don't know stupidity until you've had some little-old-lady try to kill you with her Buick for lanesplitting on a motorcycle. Apparently, it is Human Nature to feel that, if I cannot have/do something - YOU cannot either.