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Hard2Bluff said:
@batchaps4me Herschel Walker is my fav CFB RB of all time. Not sure what he did to avoid any charges.
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No disrespect to Herschel, but we both know he didn't drive the speed limit in his new ... what was it a Trans Am, perhaps? My joke isn't about him at all, but the fact that back in the day the police chiefs in college towns called the coach before anything was ever committed to paper. When it comes to driving, every teenager ever has tried to see his car's top end. I know I did.
 
batchaps4me said:
No disrespect to Herschel, but we both know he didn't drive the speed limit in his new ... what was it a Trans Am, perhaps? My joke isn't about him at all, but the fact that back in the day the police chiefs in college towns called the coach before anything was ever committed to paper. When it comes to driving, every teenager ever has tried to see his car's top end. I know I did.
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A few exceptions. I never tried to reach the top speed of my 1971 Dodge Demon with its 3 speed slant 6 engine back in the days I was a teenager. Probably would have barely topped 100. As an adult, I was and still am too afraid to test the top speed of my 2 Porsches (160 and 161). Driving 135mph in a convertible Porsche, on one occasion when 40 years old with my first Porsche, was enough to put the fear of God in me. The real difference, then to now, was that in the 70s teenagers would routinely drive drunk. MADD put a stop to that by the early 80s.
 
Tidaltown said:
A few exceptions. I never tried to reach the top speed of my 1971 Dodge Demon with its 3 speed slant 6 engine back in the days I was a teenager. Probably would have barely topped 100. As an adult, I was and still am too afraid to test the top speed of my 2 Porsches (160 and 161). Driving 135mph in a convertible Porsche, on one occasion when 40 years old with my first Porsche, was enough to put the fear of God in me. The real difference, then to now, was that in the 70s teenagers would routinely drive drunk. MADD put a stop to that by the early 80s.
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As a teen, I wasn't known as a fast driver but I would at least know what the car could do. Of course, our broke asses could only afford a 72 Mustang II with a missing front left fender and the starter ... occasionally it would hit on all four cylinders.
 
batchaps4me said:
As a teen, I wasn't known as a fast driver but I would at least know what the car could do. Of course, our broke asses could only afford a 72 Mustang II with a missing front left fender and the starter ... occasionally it would hit on all four cylinders.
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Right there with you. Many times I had to start my 71 Dodge Demon by having it pushed and popping the clutch. Also carried a screwdriver in case it jumped out of gear--you could monkey with the linkage under the hood and get it back in gear. Back then I never thought a day would arrive when I would own 2 Porsches and I barely knew what a Porsche was. These new high end cars today are Buck Rogers level in sophistication compared to the old GM/Ford/Dodge/Chrysler cars of my youth. Strange thing about my situation is, having been raised to be frugal as my dad had lived through the Depression, I feel somewhat guilty about driving an automobile costing 6 figures.

But this is what is crazy to me: Back in the early 70s when I began driving, the fastest car 0 to 60 was the 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda with a reported time of 5.6 seconds and it had 425 HP; that according to AI. But today, my 2024 Porsche Macan S--a small SUV--has only 375 HP yet goes 0 to 60 in 4.4 seconds if I use the sports chronograph option and set the engine on "sports plus." Even my 23 year old Porsche Boxster S goes 0 to 60 in 5.7 seconds with only 250 HP.
 
Tidaltown said:
Right there with you. Many times I had to start my 71 Dodge Demon by having it pushed and popping the clutch. Also carried a screwdriver in case it jumped out of gear--you could monkey with the linkage under the hood and get it back in gear. Back then I never thought a day would arrive when I would own 2 Porsches and I barely knew what a Porsche was. These new high end cars today are Buck Rogers level in sophistication compared to the old GM/Ford/Dodge/Chrysler cars of my youth. Strange thing about my situation is, having been raised to be frugal as my dad had lived through the Depression, I feel somewhat guilty about driving an automobile costing 6 figures.

But this is what is crazy to me: Back in the early 70s when I began driving, the fastest car 0 to 60 was the 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda with a reported time of 5.6 seconds and it had 425 HP; that according to AI. But today, my 2024 Porsche Macan S--a small SUV--has only 375 HP yet goes 0 to 60 in 4.4 seconds if I use the sports chronograph option and set the engine on "sports plus." Even my 23 year old Porsche Boxster S goes 0 to 60 in 5.7 seconds with only 250 HP.
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I think I was 30 years old before I bought a car with working speedometer and gas gauge. Before that I could afford one or the other. My favorite car that I owned was when I got med boarded from the navy, I bought a 1970 Mercedes 280SE four door (this was in 1990 and I paid $1500 for it). I drove it from Charlestown, RI to Birmingham, AL and blowed the head gasket 30 miles from home. It still is probably the best ride I had.
 
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