Coupe Story #6 part (1)

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Time for another coupe story.....this will come in small parts to keep the reading fun. Thanks to all for viewing & hopefully it is amusing.

Lets set the stage: It was summer, I had owned the coupe for about 1 year now & its legs where still very much fresh.

The night air was warm--but not too hot. The coupe was humming along on the interstate, 80 m.p.h. standard as prescribed by the 3.25 rear-end. She was running smooth, inhaling large amounts of air as each cylinder rumbled in-and-out of life.

It was all too good to be true so I decided why not push it? With a flick of the turn signal-stalk the speedometer rose --> 90-100-110 mph...... it was all too easy for her. I would have pushed for more but the wind-resistance at 100+ mph is not pleasant--a reasonable excuse.

I was now whooshing (whoosh-whoosh-whoosh) past cars, they seemed to be in a slow-motion vortex--or maybe I was in my rocket-ship.....

My ear-to-ear smile became disrupted as I glance up at the rear-view mirror.......sure enough lights & sirens began to blaze.....!

This was possibly the end of normal coupe ownership as I knew it......

More in the next part of our tale.

Thanks for reading,

M0
 
This is close to what just happened to me in Austria except that I was driving a Peugeot not a Coupe, that I was doing barely 72kph not 160kph, that he stopped me from the front not the rear, and that it was day not night. Otherwise same story pretty much. Anyway the moron charged me 40 Euros in cash on the spot. I asked him if I mistakenly stranded from the Czech Republic into Mexico. To dispel my Mexican claim the officer made me a receipt, however he refused to provide his name and just used his number. Does your story also involve a speed trap shakedown by a Prussian officer with a Mexican business model?
 
this is funny...we have all been pulled over, tried different stories...got out of a few, got written up for a few. I think I am about even out of all the times I was pulled over for speeding. I can see many members offering up their favourite stories here. So, here is mine : Never thought I could pass a Jaguar Mk 2 Police vehicle on the M4 in England in the late '70s in my Austin Healey 3000, and not get pulled over. Once I got to my destination, a local asked where I got the "corps diplomatique" badge. I replied that it is my CDN car badge, it means Canadian to me, apparently it has a dual purpose, plus I am extremely lucky! Mike
 
My quick story of being pulled over... Driving my '64 MGB with a 289ci small block. Made a "spirited" entrance onto an expressway in San Jose, CA and the flashing lights appeared in my rearview. Oooooooh crap, I'm busted. The officer walked up and asked, "Do you know why I pulled you over?" and I gave a vague "I think I can guess" answer. He said my registration was expired! LOL. I held back my excitement and he just gave me a warning. Yeee haaa!
 
Last year driving up to Pacific Grove with a lay over in Morro, my wife and I were in the 328d going at a good rate at roughly 10:00pm, when I saw the lights in my rear view mirror. I pulled over and the Highway Patrolman asked me where I was going and why in such a hurry? I watched you pass 4 cars. I said I was headed to PG via Morro and that I was trying to make good time :). He asked why I didn't have any plates on my car (Macha zip it!). I said that I really liked the dealership plates and preferred using them since they are from the company I work for. He smiled and walked back to his cruiser after handing him my documents. My wife then asked "what's he going to do" honey, he is going to give us a speeding ticket. "oh". He came back, handed me his pad and asked me to sign. He said I had 30 days to handle the ticket or else it would get very expensive. I looked at it and signed the ticket. I asked, while handing him the pad, where's the speeding ticket, this one is a fix it for no plates? He said that we seemed like nice people, we didn't give him any grief, lip, or lies so he didn't think a speeding ticket was necessary as long as we slowed down. "No problem!" And away we went! When we returned I had the ticket signed off and then sent the corrected ticket along with a check to the SLO CHP fund as a thank you for being so nice.
 
Coming north from Harlingen TX 2 days ago in a new Audi (sorry) A6 3.0t, I got pulled over. It's a 350 mile trip one way and I was just driving as fast as I could because I like to but, as many of you know, I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer and I had no radar detector and as a result I got a ticket, it was not as bad as I thought since I was doing a very good clip most of the time but this afternoon I will try to contact the judge to see if I can make a donation rather than get the points. The county is Live Oak TX and I'm not driving back there to contest the ticket (which usually works). More on this as the saga develops.
 
So, what is the best radar detector to buy these days. I think it's time to replace my original gen-1 Escort.
 
Years ago, too many to contemplate, I was driving our 1967 Morris Minor convertible near campus. It had a one liter engine without a lot of get up and go but it was my first car.
As I was stopped at a light some students passed me in the crosswalk and complimented me on the car. So I was feeling pretty jazzed and started reving the engine while waiting for the light. I saw a car pull up in the right lane next to me, but didn't see anything other than the fender.
When the light went green, I nailed the gas and moved smoothly away. I shifted though the gears up to the speed limit and backed off the throttle as the police car I'd been unintentionally drag racing passed me up. The cop leaned out the window and yelled "nice try buddy!" Yikes! I took a left and headed home glad to be too slow to bother with.

Ian
 
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Great place to share your 5-0 stories....

Bear in mind this is no ordinary tale, more details to come when the moment is right.

-Mo
 
Living in New Orleans for 35 years I have several I'm not necessarily proud of, one involved being forced to walk home in my boxers, but I think I'll let that rest in peace.

I did have 2 cop cars pull me over in my coupe while speeding home trying not to be late for wife night out (they thought the car was stolen, one cop pulled a gun) but liked the car and let me go.
 
I was in my second E28 5 series a few years back, stock for the most part, maybe a 3.73 LS and a chip. I'm sitting at a stop light in front of the mall minding my own business. Four home boys pull up in an old GTi and start the engine revving and taunting thing. We're all the same size in cars and I figure I've got him pretty good seeing that I'm by myself and he's got a 700 lb homie weight penalty. We wait for the light and game on.

Unbeknownst to both of us, there was cop parked about 0.1 mile down the road watching this whole thing unfold. Coupla rookies. We take off and I'm in my second gear pull enjoying victory when the blues go on. Ugggh. I pull over and the boys pull over ahead of me. The cop pulls up, makes mention that I'm a bit old to be doing this type of thing (I think I was just over 50 at the time), takes the license and reg and that he'll be right back after the license check. He scoops the GTI driver's info also. The wait begins - no matter how many times you sit through one, these waits seem to never end. Anyway, more police cars come with lots of attention on the GTi and none on the old guy in the Bronzit E28. Cop comes back and says its my lucky day because the GTI driver had a bunch of warrants and they needed to focus on him.

But enough about me. Honestly, I"d like to hear more about Steve's walk of shame. He brought it up after all.
 
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bfeng said:
So, what is the best radar detector to buy these days. I think it's time to replace my original gen-1 Escort.
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I recently got a Valentine1 to replace my aging Passport 8500. All it was good for was falsing. Do some Googling and get the dongle so you can download custom sweeps. It will still false some but the custom sweeps help a ton. Awesome range compared to what you are used to.
 
Realize that I'm a haole surfer with long white-blond hair (back in the day) looking like I'm straight off the latest flight from the mainland, and the officers around here are almost all from the other side of town. In those days I always had a board or two on top my squareback VW.

One time going around the front of Diamond Head after a surf check (it was small, windy and crappy as usual) I got a strong urge to do my business and headed for a pal's place a mile or so away. Cop pulled me over, asked what was the hurry. I told him straight that I gotta go, now, and where I was going. He pointed to the Kapiolani Park restrooms across the street and suggested I go there, but I replied those are filthy and infested with pervs and dopers. He let me go... but I wouldn't count on that reason working again.

Last time I got pulled over, the cop was going the other way on a curvy road so I knew he didn't have the goods on me. After the standard license/registration/safety inspection/insurance check (all in good order), he asked "Do you know why I pulled you over?" I knew this was SOP to get the perp to self-incriminate so I suggested that he made the stop, I complied, and it was up to him. He was pissed at that and asked me the same thing again, to which I replied similarly. More pissed, he asked again, and I responded with vigor. He was fuming but realized I wasn't going to confess, stood there a bit, and left.

But I've been careful in that area ever since.

Too much information?
 
OK, one more.

Third and final E28, its a hopped up monster project gone bad, pushing 300 HP (and no turbo) with more than that in torque. Its gone now and I miss it everyday.

I've been running the 60 mile stretch on I89 in NH between Lebanon and Concord for over 40 years. I can drive that road blindfolded and I know every speed trap. For years, I've been running it off hours at high speed chipping away at overall elapsed time. There is little to no traffic and the biggest risk are critters running in front of you. Big critters. This particular time, I was coming south, its downhill so its faster right :) , pretty early in the morning. No traffic. No cops through the Grantham stretch which is a good thing as that's where the airplane trap usually is. I continue on. Making good time. Further south, I can see a cop sitting in the median up ahead so I dial it back a bit. He's got the blues on and moving before I even get even with him and I can tell he is going to pull me over.

Radar is silent. Hmmmm.

"We've been waiting for you. We had reports of a white Beemer doing 100 mph up at mile marker 21." Really! Some dickweed called me in. I resist the urge to correct "Beemer". Probably not a good time.

To which I reply looking him straight in the eye "There is no way I was going 100". This car is nearly 30 years old!"

We lock into a death stare, neither of us looking away and me trying not to laugh. He finally backs away and looks at the car a bit and buys my story. And for once, the wonky B34 M30 idle was actually appreciated.

"OK, slow it down" and he drives off.

Truth be told, I was not lying but I was doing well over 100 in some of the safer , less populated stretches. Miss that car.
 
Guys I feel a little bit bad for waiting to update the story. But you have to understand I need to be in the mood to tell the details....

Coffee, slippers, glance at coupe in the garage....etc....

I do think this thread has come to life so adding more stories makes sense.

With all luck I will be writing part II tonight (new thread probably).

-M
 
Great thread, Charlie's Hawaiian approach is something I need to learn, Tod's 300HP sleeper story is also great. Me personally I was never able to talk an officer out of a fine. It is either my unfriendly face or the attitude of do whatever you have to I am not begging that kills it. The most I have done on a rainy day was to slow the process to a crawl given he was standing in the rain and I was not until he complained about the rain...
 
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