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I was on my way from Austin, Texas to Atlanta, Georgia, on the first leg of my epic road trip which will take me to MTI Racing in Atlanta for more mods to the SSR (Reese and the gana want to finish what they started!), then SSR Homecoming and The Woodward Dream Cruise, and then maybe even a job!
My slightly modified SSR is a real joy in highway lane changes at 70 to 75 mph, as the improved midrange torque makes the manouver fast without need for the automatic to downshift. With my 4.56 gearing, I am doing around 2500 to 2750 rpm at that speed.
I had just done one of those lane changes because a white SUV behind and to my left in the passing lane was sort of parked there not passing, and I was closing in on the car ahead of me.
I had no sooner done the deed, when that white SUV snapped on a set if blue lights, speeded up to catch me, and parked at 72 mph right behind my rear license plate! Sigh . . .
I wasn't speeding (ok, 72 in a 70, but come on . . .)
I pulled over and the nice officer asked for my license and insurance, telling me that I had failed to signal the lane change, and he knew I had working signals because I used them when pulling over!
But, he was fascinated with the SSR, pointing out that one of his friends had bought one just a couple of months ago (one of us on this board maybe? Who here lives in Alabama and has a RED SSR?). He started to ask a lot of questions, and I pointed out that he was incredibly lucky as he had just stopped the author of an SSR book-in-progress! I was able to answer all his questions, and even got in a recommendation that his friend find this website if he has not already done so.
He was already visibly hesitating on actually writing a ticket, and just needed a good official excuse (had likely radioed in my plate number during the stop, and so could not simply abandon the stop) when by incredible luck, a man RAN down the shoulder of the Interstate, across the median on the opposite side. I looked and so the officer looked, and he remarked as how "that boy seems in an awful hurry" (running at top speed when the temperature was VERY hot). I pointed out that he was defintiely not a jogger, as he was not wearing proper running shoes, and that maybe he was running seeking help for some reason, as running on an Interstate was very dangerous.
That clinched it! The officer said he really needed to let me go on my way so he could find out what was going on with the runner!
He focused on the runner, and I made a discrete exit (ok, as discrete as you can be when accelerating from zero to 70 with traffic coming up behind, with a modified true dual exhaust system
).
Jim G
My slightly modified SSR is a real joy in highway lane changes at 70 to 75 mph, as the improved midrange torque makes the manouver fast without need for the automatic to downshift. With my 4.56 gearing, I am doing around 2500 to 2750 rpm at that speed.
I had just done one of those lane changes because a white SUV behind and to my left in the passing lane was sort of parked there not passing, and I was closing in on the car ahead of me.
I had no sooner done the deed, when that white SUV snapped on a set if blue lights, speeded up to catch me, and parked at 72 mph right behind my rear license plate! Sigh . . .
I wasn't speeding (ok, 72 in a 70, but come on . . .)
I pulled over and the nice officer asked for my license and insurance, telling me that I had failed to signal the lane change, and he knew I had working signals because I used them when pulling over!
But, he was fascinated with the SSR, pointing out that one of his friends had bought one just a couple of months ago (one of us on this board maybe? Who here lives in Alabama and has a RED SSR?). He started to ask a lot of questions, and I pointed out that he was incredibly lucky as he had just stopped the author of an SSR book-in-progress! I was able to answer all his questions, and even got in a recommendation that his friend find this website if he has not already done so.
He was already visibly hesitating on actually writing a ticket, and just needed a good official excuse (had likely radioed in my plate number during the stop, and so could not simply abandon the stop) when by incredible luck, a man RAN down the shoulder of the Interstate, across the median on the opposite side. I looked and so the officer looked, and he remarked as how "that boy seems in an awful hurry" (running at top speed when the temperature was VERY hot). I pointed out that he was defintiely not a jogger, as he was not wearing proper running shoes, and that maybe he was running seeking help for some reason, as running on an Interstate was very dangerous.
That clinched it! The officer said he really needed to let me go on my way so he could find out what was going on with the runner!
He focused on the runner, and I made a discrete exit (ok, as discrete as you can be when accelerating from zero to 70 with traffic coming up behind, with a modified true dual exhaust system
).Jim G
