What's your dream car?

The guy who owned the Alfa Romeo dealership in Northern Va. once told me that the Alfa was unique amongst the cars he had ever sold or worked with in that he'd never had a customer die in an Alfa. The steering and handling were so good that there was always a way out of whatever was happening, i.e. the only way to die in an Alfa would be to fall asleep at the wheel.

Another thing you noticed about Alfas was that their convertible tops actually worked, i.e. you wouldn't get wet driving one in the rain....

Un bon!

I am guilty of lusting after a 4C.

There is almost no place in the US where you can drive more than a tiny bit over 80 mph any more and in some states like Va., 80 or better is reckless driving. The little car I like with a modern engine would not be slow.

Freeways out west have an 80mph speed limit and people drive over the limit.

When I went to Wyoming for the 2017 eclipse, crossing from Minnesota to South Dakota felt like being in the Millennium Falcon when it jumped to light speed.

Saw a couple of places out west posted for 85. That's not an uncommon speed on interstate in FL at rush hour. Same around Dallas the one time I was unfortunate enough to experience it. Well, either zero or eighty five.

speed is a good source of income in california. Driving the 5 lte at night from Sacto to Lodi was always a fun drive. Id be doing 75 and be passed by maybe 3 cars in formation. They used to have high peed runs on the 5 around Stockton. Guys would bring all sorts of tricked out beasts and run for big cash or even titles.

. Did that trip often in our younger days, but it was always a day time drive for us. We worked the vineyards to harvest grape in Lodi. My brother lives in Lodi now, and has been Mayor and City Council Member. He's an eye doc, and has offices in Lodi and Stockton with a partner. Don't know if he's still practicing or not, and he's five years younger. I retired in 1998 after contracting shingles while in London. Still running around in my 2017 Acura ILX, but not adding too many miles, because my wife drives most of the time in her 2006 Honda Civic. I think my car has less than 4,000 miles on it.

Ah, those were the days. Saturday night at the local drive in burger joint (Frisch's Big Boy in our town), hear two guys talk'n trash about each other's ride, follow them out to the unfinished hiway called 8 mile dead end and watch them race for pinks.

They still do that out west? Crap, I just got a ticket for careless driving for just making a sporty turn at an intersection. Did the whole fleeing felon routine, show me your hands, etc.. Told the cop I was anything but careless at that moment but... So I had to do the damn on-line driving school thing to keep my record clean. And pay the $259.00 fine of course. Yeah, it’s a revenue stream.

This Ryker may save my license. Only thing I ever drove that actually feels like it’s going way faster than it is. Riding at 70 is actually satisfying.

Here's what I really can’t figure out. Kids these days don’t even give a **** about cars. My own grandson had to be pushed into getting a driver's license fer cris' sakes. WTF is the world coming to.

I understand that its a post midnite activity among the old timers and Hisppanic Kids.
Remember that highly publicized rat rod called "The Farm Truck"?? I read an article about how the guy ha to buy back his title in the last year or so.

Id be chicken to do that. I had my F 250 Rausch tuned an all the dents out and new paint and some slight body mods.It still looks showroom smart and with Jake Brakes Id be a total ouche bag but Ive held back on complete insanity. Its a fast diesel but not incredibly loud. Rousch tuning has some standards of civility.

PS, did th cop call ya gramps?

Just say,"Its Dr Gramps to you sonny"

We must be get'n old. I didn’t even tick the box for M Sport exhaust when I ordered. They pipe in engine noises over the speakers so you can hear it. It’s a pretty good approximation of what the car next to you hears if they have their windows down. Many Bimmer drivers have the sound coded out in the software cause it makes them feel silly. I kind of like it.

He was in full 'serious cop mode'. What he wanted to know was what I did to the driver of the truck I passed.

What led up to the encounter was actually a weird story that I only learned as the cop is interrogating me for about half an hour.

I was Spoofed by a local redneck driving an old red pickup. He, the cop and I were the only traffic in sight. Just before I made a left turn in front of a cop (a full block away, I wasn’t even sure it was a cop) I had passed a pickup going 10 under the speed limit on a four lane divided hiway. The cop and the truck arrive at the intersection where I turned at the same time. The truck driver stops at the intersection and motions frantically to the cop and points down the street where I turned. Cop turns the lights and siren on and goes into hot pursuit mode. He had nothing on me but had to justify the stop with something.

I wonder how many times the guy in the truck has pulled that trick.

are you shittin me?? There i such a feature??

Holy crap, I am getting old. When we hill clumb, tuned xhausts were a tool. When I drove the roads, I only like a throaty hum (im an inveterate audio book fan.

That's been a feature in high(erish) end luxury sports cars for years.
Article dated 2012 I'm certain since at least the early 00's if not the late 90's.

Yeah, they do that and they also engineer sounds for the doors so you get that luxurious 'expensive car door' shutting sounds....

Another favorite, light, simple, fast, elegantly made (Maserati Merak)



6 cylinder engine behind the driver, dohc, dual ignition, 3 double-barrel downdraft Webber carburetors w velocity stacks, five forward speeds, around 2500 lbs......

Ya had me at 2500 lbs

Who (of such an age) could forget that one. I bet Bigfoot is the oldest truck the Millennials remember seeing.