I skipped pages two and most of three. I drive Laura's 2012 Charger SXT and I'll look down and I'm going 15+ over and it feels like I'm still going 50. The car doesn't feel like it's flying along about to shake or rattle apart like my Polara does over 100. I don't often purposely drive around 80, unless I'm on the highway and the speed limit is 70. They give me two more mph than Bob gets in Maryland. But I live in the country, where I can stretch any cars legs without risk to anyone other than me. I like to take the I'd cars up for a blast at higher speeds every now and again and always do so when there isn't any traffic.
Normal driving, no matter what it is, Laura's car, my Avenger, my truck, ten over, that's what I can get away with. The cops know Laura, they know me (and aren't afraid to pull me over) and I've gotten one ticket and some warnings. That's it. I must be a danger somehow, I'm sure. I have this behavior engrained in me from years of delivery driving in the big city. "Take chances, pass on the right" was the store moto for the driver's. I also learned HOW to drive, not just speeding, but purposely putting my work truck into a controlled slide, learning how to keep from spinning out, how vehicles handle. Was I screwing around? Damn right! But I was learning. Now it's just second nature, I don't need to think when **** hits the fan, I just deal with it and keep driving. I got to use bother lanes and should be of the freeway one winter after letting of the gas as we suddenly approaches a semi that was kicking up snow behind it. I didn't stop talking, throw my drink in my hand, I just gentle and calmly turned the wheel back and forth as the car slowed and got traction. Didn't even think about it. Laura looked at me and said we'd be in the ditch if she was behind the wheel. If you never put yourself in a position where you have to react, you'll probably have a bad experience if you ever have to. I did a lot of stupid driving in a parking lot to figure it out, but you need real world application to proof your theories, and I was able to do so in industrial park settings. Glad I did as I've had some times where all that paid off. Hate all you want. And no, I'm not advocating race car driving on city streets.
Not all cops love to tag speeders, it how you speed, be an asshat weaving in and out of traffic (like in Chicago for example) and you might talk to a trooper or local mount. Pass nice and polite like, then you can pass every car you see, like I do. No ticket on the way to Indy to get my '68 Monaco, and I was doing 90 almost the entire way, that's what traffic was giving me, so I took it. Much slower on the return trip. Like I said, I live in the country, and the roads are wide open, any way I point the car
