[DeTomaso] NPC: Fast and Furious crash site....

Boyd Casey boyd411 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 4 20:54:47 EST 2013


That's what I get for believing what I read on the internet.


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:02 PM, michael at michaelshortt.com <
michael at michaelshortt.com> wrote:

> Thanks, It also appears that one pays for the privilege of Mo'Power ( just
> like here), we taught them well.
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> Michael
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> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com>wrote:
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>> Michael,
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>> Those links are related to motorcycles on freeways not general
>> restrictions on size or speed. It makes total sense that a low cc
>> motorcycle (or moped) is not permitted on Freeways where it does not have
>> the speed capacity to go with thr general flow of traffic, that has always
>> been the case in the UK.
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>> Also the UK (and looks like Japan) has staged motorcycle licensing, you
>> can learn on a 125cc, then having passed a test you are allowed up to a
>> 400cc for time period before unlimited. It stops 16 yr old kids going out
>> and buying a Yamaha R1or some other crotch rocket when they have just
>> stepped off a 125cc restricted class.
>>
>> Julian
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>> From: michael at michaelshortt.com
>> Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:43:18 -0500
>> To: MikeLDrew at aol.com
>> CC: Pantera351C at hotmail.com; detomaso at poca.com
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>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC: Fast and Furious crash site....
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>> Looks like you can have more, if you can afford it.
>> http://www.thejapanfaq.com/bikerfaq-classes.html
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>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:41 PM, michael at michaelshortt.com <
>> michael at michaelshortt.com> wrote:
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_motorcycle_access_on_freeways
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>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:40 PM, michael at michaelshortt.com <
>> michael at michaelshortt.com> wrote:
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>> http://www8.cao.go.jp/kisei-kaikaku/oto/otodb/english/mondai/subject/199400303.html
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>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Mike Drew <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:
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>> Not true. I go to Japan all the time. You can buy a 200 mph Ferrari or a
>> super bike any day of the week...
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>> Mike
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Dec 4, 2013, at 10:16, "michael at michaelshortt.com" <
>> michael at michaelshortt.com> wrote:
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>> and I think that most motorcycles their are limited to 125cc,
>>
>> Michael Shortt
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>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Boyd Casey <boyd411 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> They have already done it in japan most cars are limited to 180 KMH which
>> is around 112 mph.
>> Boyd
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>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Will Kooiman <will.kooiman at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> I just hope this blows over without too much media attention.
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>> I already had one person at work say, "Why do people need to buy cars
>> that go that fast anyway?"
>>
>> Of course, it started a 30 minute discussion about how I like driving my
>> Viper to work every day, and that just because it will go close to 200mph,
>> I never drive that fast.
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>> Someday, though, there's going to be a national push to speed limit these
>> super cars.  I know it's going to happen, because I saw James T. Kirk
>> driving a Corvette that was not speed limited.  So all of the other cars on
>> the road must be limited somehow.
>> --
>> Will
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>> From: John Zeedick <Pantera351C at Hotmail.Com>
>> Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 11:02 PM
>> To: Mike Drew <MikeLDrew at aol.com>, <detomaso at POCA.com>
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC: Fast and Furious crash site....
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>> TMZ has a video from a security camera of the car crashing, interesting
>> he was going through a right-hand sweeper........perhaps he bounced off the
>> outside curbing?
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>> John”I learned my lesson with mid-engine cars long ago”Z
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>> On 12/3/13 10:07 PM, "MikeLDrew at aol.com" <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:
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>> Hi guys,
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>> Take a look at the crash site on Google Earth:
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>> http://tinyurl.com/kdcomk5
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>> Doesn't seem like an appropriate place to be travelling at triple-digit
>> speeds, does it?   Especially with people around.
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>> Based on the speed and violence of the crash, I can only assume that he
>> was approaching from the south, and lost it at the exit of the long RH
>> sweeper, and spun into the tree on the inside of the 'track' at corner
>> exit.   No way he could have attained that kind of velocity going the other
>> way.
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>> Mind you, if he had made the corner, he was going to have to seriously
>> honk on the brakes to make the 90-degree corner in front of him!
>>
>> Mike
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