My son and I had similar experiences on I-81 between the Maryland boarder
and Carlisle, Pa. when I was helping him drive home to New York from college
in Tennessee. We would leave Sewanee early in the morning and by the time
we got to the Maryland boarder it was 9 or 10 o'clock at night. With no
highway patrol cars in sight (as reported on the CB) a stream of trucks
doing at least 90 would be passing us. We maintained a speed of 80 to 85
not even trying to keep up with them.
Peter Schauss
1963 BJ7
1980 MGB
> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-
> bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of warthodson@aol.com
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 6:41 PM
> To: healeys@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Healeys] No Highway Patrol-no Healey content.
>
> Two weeks ago, we were traveling west on highway 160 in Colorado headed to
> Trinidad. It is a two lane road in the middle of nowhere. We were not in
> the
> Healey & going 75-80 MPH (which I thought was nipping along quite smartly)
> when, in the rear view mirror, I saw what turned out to be an 18 wheeler
> cattle truck (empty) closing on me. I speed up to 85 MPH but he kept
> gaining
> on us. So I went 90, then 95 & finally 100 MPH, but he still kept closing.
> Finally, I slowed to 90 MPH & let him pass, & followed him at 100 MPH for
> over
> 45 minutes until he disappeared out of sight. We continued to go 90 MPH
> for at
> least another hour & during the entire time we never caught up with a
> single
> vehicle. Don't tell my Mom!
> Gary Hodson
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