Ever been pulled over driving your Cobra?

[Tugboat]

Had the Gt40 and the Lone Star Cobra in the driveway cleaning them and the cop pulled in the cul-de-sac across the street and parked. I figured what a jerk, he is waiting for me to leave and will get me for no front tag, noise, something. Well I walked over to try to avert this situation and talk to him. He said "I am just sitting here wondering if you have a cobra and a gt40 in the driveway, what the heck you got in the garage?" We laughed and have become friends and he goes up to the local neighborhood car show, in his patrol car, with me on sat. nights. Lets us make noise but be nice!!!! Good to have a local on your side. He is a gearhead as I think alot of officers are.
In my daily drivers I have no front tag as required by Texas Law and have been stopped over the years several times for it. In the Cobra or 40 I have no tag and they never say a word!!!!!

larry Boatner
Humble, Texas

[CSX3183]

Well my story really isn't a fair representation of the pitfalls a
"normal" person faces.

I decided at the last minute to attend a car show in Port St. Luciw Fla., I lived in Ft. Laud. , so roughly 100 miles. I needed to be there at a certain time, to register for the car show. This was around 1980.

I had about 90 min. to get there, if memory serves me. Needless to say I "opened it up". About half way there on the turmpike, I passed a Florida Trooper sitting off of the road. Well it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out I was dead meat, (well a normal person would be).

I pulled over as soon as I saw the Trooper pull out, and was waiting for the Trooper to catch up to me. To my amazement the Trooper was a woman, and it being around 1980, to further amaze me, she was black.

The first thing out of her mouth was, "do you know how fast you were going" ?, and the second was, "let me see the motor". We exchanged details on the car, she thoroughly enjoyed every last detail. After about 7 mins., I told her the reason for my speed, and that I needed to get going.

She said goodby, and asked that I not speed too much. No ticket I was going around 120 when I passed her.

Now that I was running even more late, I needed to pick up the pace. The remaining part of my story involves another Trooper, and a speed of over
140 ! The reason for not being normal, I was and am, a retired police officer.

[PatBuckley]

Originally Posted by CSX3183

Well my story really isn't a fair representation of the pitfalls a
"normal" person faces.

I decided at the last minute to attend a car show in Port St. Luciw Fla., I lived in Ft. Laud. , so roughly 100 miles. I needed to be there at a certain time, to register for the car show. This was around 1980.

I had about 90 min. to get there, if memory serves me. Needless to say I "opened it up". About half way there on the turmpike, I passed a Florida Trooper sitting off of the road. Well it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out I was dead meat, (well a normal person would be).

I pulled over as soon as I saw the Trooper pull out, and was waiting for the Trooper to catch up to me. To my amazement the Trooper was a woman, and it being around 1980, to further amaze me, she was black.

The first thing out of her mouth was, "do you know how fast you were going" ?, and the second was, "let me see the motor". We exchanged details on the car, she thoroughly enjoyed every last detail. After about 7 mins., I told her the reason for my speed, and that I needed to get going.

She said goodby, and asked that I not speed too much. No ticket I was going around 120 when I passed her.

Now that I was running even more late, I needed to pick up the pace. The remaining part of my story involves another Trooper, and a speed of over
140 ! The reason for not being normal, I was and am, a retired police officer.

I bet you didn't get a ticket for exceeding 140 either, right?