Do you think I should turn myself in?

I had had a 'VW 1300' in 1970.- it easily did ....... 75 mph and even a bit more (130km/h). If I had enough inrun, I mean.

Was he right ?

What does "inrun" mean ????

Wow! I was in a VW Bug that did 72 mph and it shook like crazy. Enough shaking so that the little flower fell out of the vase.

FWIW, in US 1969 USA VWs had a 1500 cc displacement. In 1970, VWs graduated to a 1600 cc engine. Perhaps in Germany it was different?

I don't think so: it was a 35 mile zone and I wasn't faster than 50 45 40... well perhaps only a very teeny-weeny bit above it.

Seriously, he not only told me the speed, he also didn't want to see my passport or the papers of the rented car.
(Some suggested that I was stopped because I had a Texas numberplate.)

I had to look this on VWs:

"From an old road test out of the motorist - Top speed 77.6 mph
Acceleration 0 to 60 mph = 18.4 seconds"

No, it was the same.
My car was a used one, 5 years old but hadn't more than 4.500 in all those years.

My sister bought my VW in Germany, had it shipped over, then sold it to me with less than 5000 miles on it.

Vrooom
Joe(beep, beep)Nation

Well, there r only 2 possibilities:
either u DID end up in jail,
or
u did NOT.

I didn't.

Isn't that dangerous? One might easily fall asleep waiting that long.

You know what? Don't worry about it. Back in March, I got stopped by these cops who I has noticed following me for a while on the A303. I was driving home early in the morning because I had to be somewhere early and it was still dark and these cops put on their blue lights and stopped me and they asked me if I knew why they were stopping me and I said, 'No,' and they said, 'Because you're driving slowly for this road,' and I said, 'I've been going 55 or 60 miles an hour' and they said, 'Yeah, but that's slow for a dual carriageway,' and I said, 'Well, guess what? I have bad night vision, and it's dark, so I'm just being careful.' And then they decided to breathalyze me, even though one of them admitted that I wasn't swerving or anything, so I said, 'Yeah, whatever - but you have to tell me how to do this correctly.'
And the cop asked, 'Seriously - you don't know how to do this?!' And I said, 'No, I don't - I don't drive drunk and I've never been breathalyzed before,' and he said, 'Well, you have to blow this sustained breath into the tube,' so I did and I wasn't drunk.
What a bunch of bollocks!!! They stopped me because I was driving the speed limit and straight as an arrow.

Don't ******* turn yourself in - let them catch someone else.

The definition of insanity is: confessing to the police.

Its hard to imagine what good coud possibly come from that.
While u r there, I wonder whether thay will like u for anything else.

See if u like the links:

James Duane is a Professor at Regent Law School in Virginia Beach, Virginia,
where he received the Faculty Excellence Award in the fall of 2002

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik

Officer George Bruch, Virginia Beach Police Dept.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fZQWjDVKE





David

What was the actual time Rebecca?

And had you been drinking?

It was five o'clock in the morning. I had NOT been drinking. I was on my way home from a work conference. I had to leave early in the morning because I had to be home early to take my daughter somewhere the next day and since I'm an early riser naturally, I decided to leave very early in the morning as opposed to the evening before when I was tired.

Truth, spendius - my vison is 20/550 (without corrective lenses, which thank GOD correct it to 20/20) and has been since I was an eight year old child. I have always had bad night vision- that's what it is and what it was. Even the cop told me I wasn't swerving around - I was just driving more slowly than they thought normal for that road although I was well within the speed limit.

I 'm glad thay don 't do that in America.





David

They were actually very nice David - AFTER they discovered I wasn't driving the speed limit because I was drunk...

Thay had disturbed u without cause,
for no reason. Your privacy meant nothing to them.

Were thay nice enuf to apologize ???????

Pretty much - kind of - they accepted my explanation for why I was driving slower than the other people on the road - after they breathalyzed me and discovered I had 0.0 millilitres per of alcohol per whatever in the specimen of breath they collected.

We laughed about it. I think they were relieved too - they said if I had been drunk they'd have had to take me all the way back to Aldershot - which was about fifty miles away - at that time in the morning.

Yeah - but I did say to myself - what the hell was that all about?!