0 to 60 in 4 + M3 + cops=tickets

[snakeeyes]

Wayne, he meant "never broke sixty over the speed limit."

Like Gary, I got "my" racing ticket when I was a teen. I'd just rebuilt the carb on my 70 Z/28 and was out minding my own business and checking out my work when a guy in a Dodge Lil' Red Express truck (the stepside truck with a 318 and "smokestack" exhaust pipes) pulled up next to me at a light. It was a four-lane road, about ten at night, and there was not another car in sight, so when he started giving it gas I figured, what the heck. Light changed, I nailed it, was in the process of soundly whipping his butt when I saw the parking lights of a car off to the side of the road...you know the rest.

That's one advantage to losing a street race, I guess...the guy in the Dodge saw what was happening and hit his brakes, hard. He cruised by as I was pulling off the road, with he and his passenger giving me a mock round of applause...humiliating.

Luckily that was, er, quite a few years ago and I "only" received a ticket for "exhibition of acceleration." Didn't help my insurance rates but it could have been worse. Nowadays I suspect I'd have been calling my Dad from jail to come bail me out.

Bob