Back in the early 70's I was on my way to work in the sprite on I-80 in a
snow storm. Came up on a NHP(Nevada Highway Patrol) following a old Chevy
with two tire chains draging on his rear axle at 30 mph. I drove by at 60
in the sprite and looked in my rear view mirror and the tropper was
fishtailing all over the road with his lights flashing trying to catch me.
When he finally got it in control and caught up to me I pulled off the road
and stopped in a safe place, except (you guessed it) my car was rear ended
by the passenger side of a Highway Patrol car in a full slide. After he
calmed down enough to talk and write, I got a ticket for unsafe speed, but
they did pay to fix my car. I just wish I had heard of whiplash back then.
Crash
>A similar thing happened to me here in Wa. back in '78. I was driving
>my Bugeye on Banks Lake on ice 4 feet thick , with the temp at -30
>degrees F. when a State Patrolman took an interest in me
>When I was in my early 20s, I was out playing in the snow one day with
>my
>'67 Sprite. I was in a parking lot that was devoid of cars. There was
>a
>light pole in the middle of the lot with virgin snow around it. I
>pointed
>the Sprite at it and used throttle induced oversteer to spin the car
>around
>it while all the time facing the pole. After a few minutes a county
>mountie
>shows up and turns his lights on. I stop and he starts giving me a
>ration of
>S%$*.
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