I know I'll get flamed for this, but it's not the big rigs that I don't want to
be on the road with-they obey the laws and speed limits for the most part; they
pay attention to what they're doing and have even watched out for me and let me
in traffic.
The ones I don't like being on the road with are the SUVs-how many SUVs I've
seen on the 405 going 90 mph, in and out of traffic. Tailgating. Driving like
they're the only vehicles on the road or who have the right to be on the road.
And then there are the guys who somehow feel their masculinity being threatened
by being on the road with a woman in a sportscar. (Or any car!)
How many times, I'm driving along, signal on trying to merge for my ramp or
exit, and some jerk in an SUV or some guy in a Toyota (for example) decides
that they have got to try to race and cut me off. And how many times, after
cutting me off do they not even exit!
And how many times I've missed my exit and had to go miles out of my way and
turn around because some jerk cut me off and I couldn't exit-however, this has
never happened to me with a big rig. It's the civilian drivers!
Hey there guys! Letting a woman with a sportscar merge over to her exit doesn't
mean you're any less a man! And SUV drivers! A little courtesy goes a Looong
way!
How many times though, some CHP has come up behind me and I've thought
'Merde!'-only to have him go around me and after some SUV who thinks he/she's
Ricky Racer! I see a lot of SUVs on the side of the road getting tickets, so I
guess that's some consolation.
Laura G.-Rant over, Nomex on.
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>From: "Banbury, Terrence" <Terrence.Banbury@dnr.state.oh.us>
>Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 09:18:07 -0400
>To: spitfires@autox.team.net, "'Growe58@aol.com'" <Growe58@aol.com>
>Subject: RE: Touring in a Spit - longish
>
>
>I, too, am not keen on sharing the road with the Big Rigs. On the back
>roads you can always turn off on a side road to "escape" construction, too
>many trucks, etc, and as you pointed out , the scenery is better.
>
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>> From: Growe58@aol.com[SMTP:Growe58@aol.com]
>> Reply To: Growe58@aol.com
>> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 8:27 PM
>> To: spitfires@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Touring in a Spit - longish
>>
>>
>> I had to make a 200 mile each way trip this weekend and since my wife
>> needed the minivan, I packed up the Spitfire and off I went. On the way
>> up
>> Saturday night, it was rainy and cool (low 50s) so the top stayed up. I
>> had some anxious moments merging onto an interstate in heavy fog (is a
>> tractor trailer coming?), but other than that, the trip was uneventful. I
>>
>> came
>> back today in steady rain most of the time, so the top was still up. I
>> don't
>> really like tangoing with the 18 wheelers on the interstates in the spit,
>> especially in the rain, so I pulled out the map and looked for the
>> "backroads".
>> You know, I can almost forget how beautiful parts of Pennsylvania are when
>>
>> I'm isolated on the interstates. The back roads brought it all home for
>> me.
>> The farms and the fields. The impossibly green forests. The "S" curves
>> up
>> the hillsides through tree cover when I would suddenly burst out in the
>> open
>> on top. Towns denoted by a 35 mph speed limit and a cluster of a dozen
>> old, but immaculately maintained houses on both sides of the road. And
>> then a rush back up to 55. What a magical drive even without the
>> sunshine!
>>
>> Well, that was my contribution to British Car Week. I eventually DID have
>> to
>> go back to the main roads so at least some John and Joan Q. Publics did
>> get
>> to see an LBC. Mechanically, my spit ran sweetly the whole way with the
>> exception of a small vibration from one of the u-joints- I replaced 2
>> earlier
>> this
>> year, so of course the third is now failing. Oh and I couldn't get warm
>> air
>> from the heater - it was either hot or cold. Also, rain kept coming in
>> where
>> the top meets the windshield header. But I think that qualifies as pretty
>> uneventful!
>>
>> This was a good drive. I'm going to remember this one a LONG time.
>>
>> Greg Rowe
>> 78 Spitfire
>>
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