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Fellow Shellby driver/owner

You blew by me about 2 hours ago, heading northbound on a certain highway in Massachusetts, nortwest of Boston.

I was all alone in the dark, with not the slightest hint of a car's headlight behind me. I blinked and there you were, maybe 100 feet behind me. I immediately recognized the 3 slanted lights next to the headlights on my rearview mirror. I was overtaken by the adrenaline rush as you passed me on the left lane and I was pinned back to my seat as my car easily lunged from 75 to 140 and followed close behind you for a few short miles.

I let off the gas about 1/2 mile before we reached route 2, but you ketp on going. As I reached route 2 I watched your tail lights disappear as the hightway curved slightly to the right. Suddenly I was filled with dread and I let out an "oh no..." as I realized what I was about to witness.

That state tropper sits there with his engine running and all his lights off, every Saturday between 1 and 3am, just waiting for careless souls heading home after a night of fun in town to exit route 2 and drive by him going way too fast heading northbound. Over the years I have watched numerous poeple get nabbed on that spot.

You either slamed on the breaks as his flashing blue lights suddenly poped up in front of you while he sat there shielding the guy changing his tire, or you turned off your lights and went for it. I think you did that later.

EIther he did not see you at all, or he did but realized it was already too late and there was no way he had a chance get even close to you before you got off the next exit or sped up faster and faster towards the next exit, after having backed up away from the car in front of him, around it and finally go after you starting from a stand still.

I'd like to think the only thought that crossed that trooper's mind was, "yeah... that's just not going to happen..." and stayed put to keep on doing something he could accomplish, shielding that guy changing.

I drove by him doing 75, watched the flashing blue lights on my rear view mirror. I gunned it the moment his lights disappared behind the car parked in front of him. I watched the numbers on my dash quicky hit 140, 150, 160, but I never saw your tail lights again.

According to Google maps, the distance from where that cruiser was parked and the next exit, which also happens to be my exist, is 2.5 miles. Thanks to you I now know how short a distince 2.5 miles really is, because at 165 it is incredible how god damned fast an exist comes at you out of nowhere. I was just barely able slow down enough and not miss the exit.

I hope you reached your destination safe and sound as I did.

Goodspeed.

 

[Goose17]

Reenactment:

 

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That's an amazingly funny movie. I did not speak or understand a lick of English when it came out and it was very funny even with the vary bad attempts at translating all those jokes to another language with a completely different culture.

I watched it again many years later aften having moved to the US and it was like watching it for the first time because of all the jokes in it that never translated at all. I almost died laughing the first time I understood "What's the matter Colonel Sandurz? Chicken???" really meant, lol.

I might watch it again tonight if its available for streaming.


You know this car just keeps on amaing me.

I was too high on the adrenaline rush when I got home last night and wrote all that to actually realize a lot of things of that experience. It was not until today I was talking about this with my buddy at lunch time that a lot of the details of the car's behaviour really sunk in.

This was my first experience on this car above 100 mph. I was driving on normal mode. I never floored it, but pressed down enough to feel my body go back on my sit. I can only imagine what it feels like to actually floor it.

There was no swaying at all, the car never felt unstable even as the rear wheels slightly spun when the car went from 7th down to 3rd (maybe even 2nd? I don't remember looking) and shot forward.

There was no drastic up and down from bumps on the or anything like that. The car just felt like it was gliding a few inches above the ground.

When I noticed my exist was right there and pushed on the break pedal, the car just shifted down, gear after gear and the car had no problems descelarting. It never felt like the car wanted to go anywher, except for straight forward.

Anyway, it's possible that guy on the other shelby never drove by the cop. As I mentioned, was too wired up to think about it, but he could have taken the exit right after the route 2 exit and just a few hundred feet before where the cop was sitting. Back there where I was when he followed the highway to the right and disappeared, I would not have been able to tell if he took that exit. Maybe he saw the blue lights ahead and decided to get off the highway there.

God I can't wait for track attack.

 

[Goose17]

That's an amazingly funny movie. I did not speak or understand a lick of English when it came out and it was very funny even with the vary bad attempts at translating all those jokes to another language with a completely different culture.

I watched it again many years later aften having moved to the US and it was like watching it for the first time because of all the jokes in it that never translated at all. I almost died laughing the first time I understood "What's the matter Colonel Sandurz? Chicken???" really meant, lol.

I might watch it again tonight if its available for streaming.


You know this car just keeps on amaing me.

I was too high on the adrenaline rush when I got home last night and wrote all that to actually realize a lot of things of that experience. It was not until today I was talking about this with my buddy at lunch time that a lot of the details of the car's behaviour really sunk in.

This was my first experience on this car above 100 mph. I was driving on normal mode. I never floored it, but pressed down enough to feel my body go back on my sit. I can only imagine what it feels like to actually floor it.

There was no swaying at all, the car never felt unstable even as the rear wheels slightly spun when the car went from 7th down to 3rd (maybe even 2nd? I don't remember looking) and shot forward.

There was no drastic up and down from bumps on the or anything like that. The car just felt like it was gliding a few inches above the ground.

When I noticed my exist was right there and pushed on the break pedal, the car just shifted down, gear after gear and the car had no problems descelarting. It never felt like the car wanted to go anywher, except for straight forward.

Anyway, it's possible that guy on the other shelby never drove by the cop. As I mentioned, was too wired up to think about it, but he could have taken the exit right after the route 2 exit and just a few hundred feet before where the cop was sitting. Back there where I was when he followed the highway to the right and disappeared, I would not have been able to tell if he took that exit. Maybe he saw the blue lights ahead and decided to get off the highway there.

God I can't wait for track attack.

For what it’s worth, I think I only tried Normal Mode once… it’s passive. I live in My Mode (which is mostly Sport) on the streets and Track Mode at the track. They are both much more aggressive than Normal Mode.

 

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For what it’s worth, I think I only tried Normal Mode once… it’s passive. I live in My Mode (which is mostly Sport) on the streets and Track Mode at the track. They are both much more aggressive than Normal Mode.

Still have not gotten into the habit of remembering ot put it into my mode, and that was the case that night.

I set my mode starting with Sport, then customized that with comfort stearing, normal suspension, and exhaust set to track.

I wish it had to custom modes though. Set the second one quiet exhaust for those nights when I get home late and use that for the last 2 blocks before I get home