[DeTomaso] Most expensive ticket in a Pantera and otherwise?

[Bill Lewis]

When my wife was younger, and before she became "not as sharp as she used to be," she was an Alpha Female - a mover and shaker.  She pushed the triple-digit many times in many facets, and has many stories about driving too fast and getting caught and not being charged.  The one that has been passed around the most around many campfires is the time that she was stopped and after trying all her guiles on not getting a ticket - the patrolman gave her one anyway, and was already back in his car ready to drive away, and she bounced out of her car and marched up to him, tapped on his window, smiled real big, and said, "I'm going to give you one more chance to take this ticket back.  He laughed out loud and took the ticket back and drove off.   ----Bill (True story) Lewis


> From: MikeLDrew at aol.com
> Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 12:16:08 -0400
> To: cengles at cox.net; rob at dumoulins.net; detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Most expensive ticket in a Pantera and otherwise?
> 
> We got lucky on the drive home from Phoenix yesterday.   Lori had never 
> driven my Pantera before, and she took the wheel in Bishop, CA for the drive 
> north on Hwy 395, a beautiful four-lane divided highway (non-freeway) with a 
> 65 mph limit (55 in places).   She asked how fast she could go, and I told 
> her "go as fast as you want?"   
> 
> Next thing you know, the GPS is showing triple digits.   We're just 
> cruising along in the Pantera's happy zone.   Julian Kift had been right behind us, 
> but he was wiser and held back as we motored off into the distance. 
> 
> My phone rang a few minutes later.   Julian breathlessly told me that a CHP 
> car had just BLASTED past him going the speed of heat, obviously in hot 
> pursuit of somebody.   Hmm, I wonder who that somebody might be?
> 
> We slowed right down to 62 mph and parked in the slow lane.   Soon the CHP 
> SUV appeared in our 6 o'clock and shadowed us for a few miles.   But then 
> surprisingly, he pulled off and turned around.   I guess he had seen us but 
> didn't get us on radar or something?
> 
> Whew!
> 
> Eventually Julian caught up and we had a bit of a chuckle, then pressed on, 
> speeds once again elevated (but not in triple digits anymore).   We even 
> blew past a late-model Corvette on a bit of the road that was two-lane (he 
> actually pulled over onto the hard shoulder as Lori was pressing him a bit!)
> 
> Approaching a blind bend, a pickup truck going the other way flashed his 
> lights frantically, so she slowed way down again, and sure enough, lurking 
> around the corner was a CHP car pointed right at us, radar presumably going 
> full blast.   Just like the scene in The Gumball Rally, we sailed past him 
> going exactly the speed limit, and he didn't budge.
> 
> Whew times two!
> 
> Mike (really should invest in a radar detector--or better yet, get LORI to 
> invest in a radar detector!   BTW she has never, ever received a speeding 
> ticket!   Her natural assets may have played a bit of a role in that once or 
> twice though!)
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