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Team allegedly sets new 'Cannonball Run' record on empty highways during coronavirus lockdowns
Fox News ^ | 10 April 2020 | Gary Gastelu

Posted on 04/10/2020 7:30:23 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

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To: meowmeow

Just $3.99 at Amazon

101 posted on 04/10/2020 1:28:50 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Magnum44

hat would work out for her if the Movie was filmed today.

Odds are the Female Officer Character would be a Lesbian.

This is based on the HGTV House Hunters Gauge where half the Couples looking to buy a House are Lesbians and Gays.


102 posted on 04/10/2020 2:01:59 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Thanks.


103 posted on 04/10/2020 2:07:59 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.for corruptiion)
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To: GreenLanternCorps

Gumball Rally was so cool.
Racing on film an original 427 Cobra and Ferrari Daytona Spider.
How crazy is that?


104 posted on 04/10/2020 2:54:40 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: vetvetdoug

Two years ago, I drove across most of Montana one day. Mostly between 90 and 105. Speed limit was 80.

Toward the end of the day, a very friendly trooper decided to show me the cool lights on his roof and give me a piece of paper to let me know how fast I was going. Only 93.


105 posted on 04/10/2020 3:16:21 PM PDT by cyclotic (A vote for Democrats is a vote for lower traffic volumes)
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To: cyclotic

“Two years ago, I drove across most of Montana one day. Mostly between 90 and 105. Speed limit was 80.

Toward the end of the day, a very friendly trooper decided to show me the cool lights on his roof and give me a piece of paper to let me know how fast I was going. Only 93.”

Too bad the limit wasn’t still “Reasonable and Prudent” as it has been a couple of periods in the past. I got an “Energy Conservation” ticket for going 70 in 1979 when the national speed limit was 55. Handed the trooper a $5 bill and went on my way with no points on my license. Speed limit on the same stretch of interstate now is 80.


106 posted on 04/10/2020 3:56:21 PM PDT by utax
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To: bert

My first car was a “Spriget” - I took the wrecked shell of a Midget and transferred the components from a Sprite to build a complete car.


107 posted on 04/10/2020 4:53:14 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: Magnum44

Wow - the ones I saw on Amazon supposedly did not work on US dvd players. Thanks!


108 posted on 04/10/2020 5:23:16 PM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: SamAdams76

They use radar and laser detectors and laser jammers.


109 posted on 04/10/2020 5:31:45 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: ThunderSleeps

Like many other forms of competition, the firepower expands to consume available budget.


110 posted on 04/10/2020 5:33:44 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: KC Burke

A go cart. I’d love to have one...
That car handled like few others.


111 posted on 04/10/2020 5:41:40 PM PDT by sasquatch
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To: utax

True.

I called the court and actually had my trial on the phone. I admitted that I was doing 93 in an 80 but then I said “But you have such awesome roads!”

That got me probation before judgement, pay the $70 fine and no points. That’s all I wanted.

Frankly, it was worth $70 to drive at 100mph for several hours.


112 posted on 04/10/2020 6:03:14 PM PDT by cyclotic (A vote for Democrats is a vote for lower traffic volumes)
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To: nascarnation
Yeah, crazy capabilities. My personal high speed (on land) is about 115, and that was years ago on a closed race course, not on public roads. In the air, flying my buddy's aerobatic plane I've hit about 175 knots by giving up on and diving out of a particularly sloppy aileron roll... :-(

I'm afraid on the road I'm a fairly conservative old-guy driver or rider. Even on my bike (a cruiser) I don't generally violate the speed limit. Sure, every once in a while I might roll up single-digits over but...

113 posted on 04/10/2020 6:52:20 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: AU72

That sounds possible. Tampa to Baltimore is 18 hours following speed limits.


114 posted on 04/10/2020 11:41:15 PM PDT by perfect stranger
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To: rockrr

Did it have dual cars?


115 posted on 04/11/2020 5:04:39 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: bert

Carbs? Yep, it had a tiny engine with dual SU carbs. The motor was shot - no compression. It would cruise OK but there was a steep hill I had to climb every morning to get to school. Some days would find me crawling to the top in 2nd gear.

On the east side of Seattle sits Lake Washington with some superb windy roads that were fun for gymkhana (or at least they were back in the 70’s). I was running the course when I was passed by a guy in an Austin. I proceeded to race him (he probably didn’t even know I was there behind him!) and struck a curb at 60. I hit so hard the steering wheel came off in my hands.

That was the end of my first car.


116 posted on 04/11/2020 6:56:57 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: cyclotic
Posted this earlier in the week on a different thread: "I had to go to friend's house in B-more on Sunday afternoon for her to tend to her cat 🐱... Traffic so light and fast... Hit 100 mph on both I-695 and I-70... Post-apocalyptic was how the traffic was running..."
117 posted on 04/11/2020 7:10:58 AM PDT by dakine
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To: dakine
Posted this earlier in the week on a different thread: "I had to go to friend's house in B-more on Sunday afternoon for her to tend to her cat 🐱... Traffic so light and fast... Hit 100 mph on both I-695 and I-70... Post-apocalyptic was how the traffic was running..."

Not in my part of the world - the slowest of drivers are still on the road while all the fast people seem to be staying home. One would expect the drive to and from work to be very fast, given that 75% of the cars are not on the roads. But that is not the case here.

I am envious!

118 posted on 04/11/2020 7:13:20 AM PDT by meyer (WWG1WGA, MAGA!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
If Musk really wanted to sell the product, he'd make sure the next Tesla model has a 3000 mile range. ;^)

119 posted on 04/14/2020 10:28:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Regulator

>> Yeah, but lots more cops around with nothing to do.

Wait until the economic crunch hits all the small towns out there. We’re going to see a huge increase in traffic enforcement for revenue, I expect.


120 posted on 04/14/2020 10:34:13 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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