Comments on: Nice Ride http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/02/24/nice-ride/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:53:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/02/24/nice-ride/comment-page-1/#comment-332830 Steve Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:13:21 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=8021#comment-332830 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. 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.

]]> By: virgil xenophon http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/02/24/nice-ride/comment-page-1/#comment-332420 virgil xenophon Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:38:49 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=8021#comment-332420 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.... 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….

]]> By: Marianne Matthews http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/02/24/nice-ride/comment-page-1/#comment-332388 Marianne Matthews Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:02:01 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=8021#comment-332388 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 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

]]> By: Formerly known as Skeptic http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/02/24/nice-ride/comment-page-1/#comment-332113 Formerly known as Skeptic Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:52:41 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=8021#comment-332113 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 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

]]> By: virgil xenophon http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/02/24/nice-ride/comment-page-1/#comment-332033 virgil xenophon Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:19:54 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=8021#comment-332033 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. 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.

]]> By: Sam http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/02/24/nice-ride/comment-page-1/#comment-332031 Sam Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:05:07 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=8021#comment-332031 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. 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.

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