Hey--Easy on the smedlaps--We were all probably "smedlaps" at one time or
another in our youth before becoming a yuppie (Unless we were born with a
silver spoon in our mouths).
From the "Freedom for Smedlaps Society"...FfSS (tire losing air at 90mph)
Sorry if anyone is affended, I couldn't resist--Chris
On Thu, 30 Nov 1995 RKEMPINS(at)ssf4.jsc.nasa.gov wrote:
>
> >Let's hear it for the new limits!
>
> While I welcome opportunity to drive faster so I can get there quicker so I
> can rush and get back sooner all so I can get up the next day and do it
> again, no speed limits have me concerned. Do were really want the population
> driving at speeds in excess of 65 mph? Shoot, with
> people using car phones, eating hamburgers, and smoking cigarettes while
> driving 90 to 100 mph we are in for some really spectacular wrecks. Reminds
> me of a time I was on the autobahn with my brother in his RX7. We were
> cruising about 70 to 75 mph because that was a reasonable trade off of
> fuel usage (gas is expensive in Germany), travel time and safety. Anyway, in
> our several hundred mile journey we never passed a Mercedes or Porsche.
> They passed us. One day, cruising toward Garmisch from Munich, some Merc
> zooms by us at maybe twice our speed. Not so unusual. About 15 miles down the
> road we see what we thought was the same Merc (it was hard to tell) crushed
> and smoldering on the median. I had never
> seen such a total wreck. We don't really know what happened and we didn't
> rubberneck to find out but speed had to have made a difference.
>
> Later on that same trip, we had stopped to remove
> some snow chains from the rear wheels up in the Alps near St. Anton. A little
> boxy type car, like a Fiat, comes zooming by us down the hill going way too
> fast for the conditions. In a few minutes we headed down the same road to our
> hotel. On the street right in front of our hotel upside down in the
> middle of the road was the boxy car on its roof. The
> driver was out but the passenger was dangling from the seat belts. We later
> found out the passenger was killed by a broken neck.
>
> >I hear that Montana has now become the
> >"American Autobahn" with no posted speed limits. On the other hand, it
> >sort of echos T.J. Higgens story about futuristic vehicles chasing down
> >our LBC's.
>
> We don't have to worry about futuristic vehicles. I'm more worried about joe
> schmedlaps driving 90 mph with bald tires, bad brakes and music blasting.
>
> Rob
>
>
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