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Nice Ride

By lex, on February 24th, 2009

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February 24th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Small Stuff

18 comments to Nice Ride

  • Michelle
    February 24, 2009 at 4:40 pm

    Niiiice.
    It definitely sucks to be somebody.

    But I can’t help but think that the police might have gotten better use of it as a ghost car, at least for a little while. After all, who would ever think…

  • Byron Audler
    February 24, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    Sweet!

  • LT Rusty
    February 24, 2009 at 5:15 pm

    My local sherriff’s dept back home had a 928S – the one with the 5-liter engine – back in the 80′s. The state police had a BMW M5 for a while, too …

    Still not as ghey as the Augusta, Maine PD: in the 80′s they used Volvo 244′s as cruisers. heheh

  • LT Rusty
    February 24, 2009 at 5:16 pm

    Oh, other note: when my dad was the chief of a small-town PD, also in Maine, he tried to get them to buy VW GTI’s for cruisers.

  • G-man
    February 24, 2009 at 5:51 pm

    A Lex-iferous refrain
    “twisted steel and sex appeal”.
    I love it, gotta get that bumpa sticka.

    With all due apologies to Byron
    dude – down heyunh the word is a 2 syllable word
    sa-weet

  • olga
    February 24, 2009 at 5:55 pm

    Loved the front shot and these colors look bloody good on it :o )

  • virgil xenophon
    February 24, 2009 at 5:58 pm

    Man, the recruits they could get if they gave everybody one–would NEVER be a shortage of recruits!

    PS: Michelle, in England in the 70s the Bobbies used to cruise around in black un-marked MG convertibles which, when they made a stop had a little painted (no lights) police sign that popped up from the trunk. Knocked me out laughing first time I saw one.

  • xairboss (alias) E Yat
    February 24, 2009 at 6:24 pm

    VX, I take it you laughed all the way to court to pay your traffic fine for speeding. I had a sweet 68 Porche 911 in a former life. Had to trade it in for a 78 Dasher after getting married. I still regret not hearing the sound of the Porsche at 6500 rpm but never the decision to get married. For Byron, I’m going home in May for the 50th HS reunion and will definately have a meal at Mandinas. Just gonna substitute the oyster and artichoke soup for a bowl of gumbo.

  • virgil xenophon
    February 24, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    xairboss (alias E. Yat)

    I’m technically in mourning today–we were supposed to be back well before Mardis Gras. We’re making up for it here in Marina del Rey by dropping by “Uncle Darrows” for a bowl of gumbo tonight (he’s a Louisiana expat.)

    Had a Br. racing green “fixed-head coupe” XK-140 Jag as my first car in England. Sea-foam green leather int, left-hand dr–the works. Engine ran as smooth as a sewing machine, but was rusting too badly underneath (exfoliation) and I didn’t have the bucks for total restoration. Next was a 2994cc 3-litre, 1969 metallic silver w. black leather int 2-seat MARCOS GT (3rd tubular-steel framed one they made-drove it fresh off the factory floor down at Bradford-on-Avon just outside Bath.) Was fibre-glass and only weighed 1500lbs–sat 4” off the ground. Was an oil-pan killer here in US when I brought it back, but it would fly with that big engine–and out corner a Porche with it’s 50-50 wt. distrib. Had 6 forward speeds (with an electric over drive in 3rd and 4th gear provided by a toggle switch on the shift lever. Could go in and out going up or coming down. In town kept it in third gear mostly–just flicked toggle switch w.out shifting if hit an open stretch in traffic–very handy). Only problem was that car was so low people couldn’t see me in rear view mirror. Made passing and lane changing “interesting.” Almost got taken out a couple of times by semis changing lanes who didn’t see me. Same with people backing up in parking lots. Oh, and was a true two seater, Seats were fixed w. nothing behind. Seats canted like F-16 so you were in a Formula I racing position–and you adj. breaks and gas pedals to ht. with a wheel by moving them back or forward on a track like rudder pedals! A helluva ride and TOTALLY impractical. I LOVED it!

  • virgil xenophon
    February 24, 2009 at 7:14 pm

    PS to YAT: Oh, and was a super stealth radar avoiding beast. It’s front was shaped much like an E-type Jag only a flatter oval and fibre-glass to boot. I first realized it when driving it back to Lafayette off the boat in NJ. I went right past a W. Virginia State Trooper sitting at the side of the road coming down out of the mountains out of a blind curve at about 115+ and he didn’t even bother to turn on the lights–and I was the ONLY thing on the road! LOL.

  • olga
    February 24, 2009 at 7:54 pm

    VX,
    your description of your cars made me drool LOL

  • wolfwalker
    February 24, 2009 at 10:51 pm

    I remember in a town I used to live in, the cops had a Trans Am cruiser. Always wondered where they got it; now I know it musta been seized.

  • Sam
    February 25, 2009 at 8:05 am

    Yeah, I’ve driven several 911′s through the years. You’re right…nice ride…be very difficult to elude one. Very fast and corners like glue. You’ve got to be very careful…they’re so smooth at high speed you don’t know how fast you’re really going, and they have a tendency to over steer, and that will get you killed real fast…but they will stop on a dime.

    Anyway, I’d take one in a second, but I’d rather have a Raptor.

  • virgil xenophon
    February 25, 2009 at 8:19 am

    Sam/

    Oversteer is no problemo if you grew up Go-Carting. A twitch sends you arse over elbows on one of those things. And you’re right about the smoothness of modern hi-performance autos. You get to 90-100mph and beyond real fast without
    even noticing it.

  • Formerly known as Skeptic
    February 25, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    I seem to recall many years ago reading about an actual Police pursuit group on the German Autobahn system that used 911′s. These were official police cars, not confiscated showpieces like this. Oh, look… I found a link with a mix of hot official and show police cars, Here:
    http://www.nitrocandy.com/15-most-intimidating-police-cars.html

  • Marianne Matthews
    February 25, 2009 at 10:02 pm

    It’s lovely to read you sports car people’s reminiscences. Takes me back to my days of pit crewing for SCCA races in the Midwest, back in the 1950s, when Gen. Curtis Le May let us race on his airbases, and Road America was the pride of Elkhart Lake. Wisconsin.. My beau at the time had a hand-built Comet, Class B Modified, the racing class that held all the wild guys and their over-powered cars. The Comet had a Mercury truck engine on an MG chassis, and was built in California, with each wheel on a separate scale during assembly. It was a hairy monster and had 12-to-1 steering that nearly tore my arms off.

    But I’ve got to admit, my all-time car lust is saved for the Jaguar XKE. What a beautiful deadly creature it is. I have an old movie called How To Steal a Million, with Peter O’Toole and Audrey Hepburn which I watch to remind me of my rash youth, and their glorious prime. O’Toole drives a yellow XKE in it that would make your mouth water.

    Thanks for the ride, guys. And the memories.

    Marianne

  • virgil xenophon
    February 26, 2009 at 12:38 am

    Marianne/

    A good friend of mine in the Sq in England had a white, 12 cyl XKE Convert–was a nice ride. A guy I knew in college as an under grad in the early 60s (really a LOT of family $ but a nice down-to-earth guy) actually owned TWO of the org 6 cyl XKEs. LOL! ‘Course one really needed two; one was always down for maintenance–Smith’s electrical, you know–we were convinced the English had yet to master electricity. heh.

    Sounds like you had a TOTALLY wonderful mis-spent youth! No wall-flower you!!

    Worst car moment of my life was when I came home one summer from college to find my Dad had sold his 1957 white T-Bird convert w. red leather sets and det. hard-top to be replaced with a new red ’64 MG Sprite convert. LOL! I could have killed him! Dad loved hot cars, but they HAD to be new–otherwise he was a tot. Philistine insofar as his appreciation for older cars went….

  • Steve
    February 26, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    Haven’t seen that one around town yet. The only way my Jeep would outrun it would be to head off-road! Doubt I’d make it to the trail before the 911.

    You would think that Law Enforcement could do away with a vehicle acquisition budget and just raid more meth labs.
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