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WiffenPoof

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20. Can't Remember Which Came First...

Mon Nov 20, 2017, 05:55 AM

Nov 2017

Once I did 120 mph traveling from Roswell New Mexico to LA on a long stretch of road somewhere in Arizona. It was in a 1964 Lincoln Continental with a car full of cadets going home for Christmas. Didn't even realize I was going that fast.

Then, a fellow cadet took me to an abandoned Roswell airport in his 1973 Corvette. We ended up doing around 130 mph. Scared me to death.

Finally...i took my Porsche 914 down the Grapevine (central .CA, I-5). Got pulled over by the Highway Patrol. He said that he clocked me doing 96 mph.

I was young...

We spend the first half of our lives trying to kill ourselves...and the second half trying to stay alive.

Paige

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The First Time.... [View all] pbmus Nov 2017 OP

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on the ground? edhopper Nov 2017 #2

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Ford Galaxy. Well, the speedometer said I was going that fast. jalan48 Nov 2017 #5

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Customized '69(?) Mustang hardtop. nocalflea Nov 2017 #10

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An airplane in the summer of 1960 LeftInTX Nov 2017 #14

A Datsun 260Z FM123 Nov 2017 #15

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Intruder... pbmus Nov 2017 #18

Late at night in an '89 Jaguar on the Long Island Expressway brush Nov 2017 #17

1968 Buick Skylark csziggy Nov 2017 #19

Can't Remember Which Came First... WiffenPoof Nov 2017 #20