That would be a heckuva picture Don!

On 10/2/07, Don Hanson <dhanson@gorge.net> wrote:
>
> See if you can find a good radar detector to use.  Once you get into the
> outback, it can be easily and safely driven in the high triple digit speed
> ranges, and you will find it ridiculous driving at oh, 75 or so...You can
> reach those speeds in first gear with that vehicle..
>   I've done many highway trips in a Porsche...928..  It's amusing.  When
> you
> see on a map the next town, in Nevada or Oregon or Idaho..whereever..is 90
> miles and you think.." Ok, that is just 30 mins, if I don't really push
> it"..
>   Often we drove hwy 50 in Nevada, billed as "The Loneliest Road in
> America"
> on our way to those Open Highway high speed rallies like this
> http://www.silverstateclassic.com/
>   Hwy 50 passes through the desert east of Fallon Air Force Base, where
> the
> Navy Jet Jockies come play war and have that Top Gun flight
> program.  Those
> guys flying the f-whatevers used to get a big kick out of "painting" us
> with
> their missile target radar as we cruised along out in the desert in the
> Porsche 928 at 150 or so, obviously all alone, (we thought) on a road
> where
> you could see for 30 miles, crossing one  long valley after another.   We
> finally figured out why our radar detector was often  picking up these
> weird
> signals,  when one pilot came right down on the deck and flew alongside
> for
> a few miles (about 45 seconds at that speed) , giving us a "thumbs-up"
> wave
> and then turned skyward and hit his afterburner!
>   I also had an indication of radar once west of Ely, Nv and slammed on
> the
> brakes hard!  "Aha," I thought, "I escaped again" but the State Trooper
> swung around anyhow and I looked down to find I had been 'speed-drunk' a
> common phenomenon when driving at autobahn speeds.  I had only slowed to
> what I felt was really slow but turned out I was still going over
> 100..That
> trooper loved the Porsche, asked if he could 'try it on' by sitting behind
> the wheel..But he couldn't fit inside with his Smokey Bear flat hat
> on...so
> I held it for him....and of course, I had to try THAT on...Musta been some
> sight, me standing there in my flipflops  with  the fully lit police
> cruiser
> behind a black exotic supercar, Me, with shorts, no shirt and the Smokey
> hat
> on, standing by the door of the Porsche, talking to the trooper inside..He
> wrote me anyhow, but only for 80mph..(top of first gear, in that Porsche)
>   Don Hanson
>

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