Ferrari Mailing List: Hagerty Classic Car Driving (Lashdeep Singh)

[Doug & Terri (dnt]

George shares “. . . Dad brought his vintage Jags to FL at different times, but stopped doing that because the roads down there were boring. . . .”

 

Picture this – abut nine years ago business brought me to St. Petersburg, FL for two weeks.  The weekends were ours.  What to do?  Ahhhhh – the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing, of course north in Ocala.  Florida is pretty flat.  Lots of green.  Both coming and going I see yellow highway signs with a black turtle silhouette.  What the heck?

 

On Monday I ask one of our folks at the company we were working with what the heck is that?  Ohhh he says – you don’t want to hit a turtle.  Oh? State pet or something?  Nope – they’re squishy and you’ll stand a good chance of sliding off the road . . . into a ditch . . . where the alligators are.

 

Is there any truth to that? 

 

(shudder)

Doug