Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Excuse to take the 308 out for a spin

[Hans E. Hansen (FList]

Or when the cop asks why you were going so fast, answer "I was afraid
you were the cop my wife ran off with."

"Why should that make you drive so fast?"

"I thought you were trying to bring her back."

Hans.

On 12/29/21, Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net> wrote:
> Mark ponders “If I tell the cop I have a racing license would it
> help?....😂”
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> Hmmmm – didn’t seem to help Dan Gurney . . . .
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> in Brock Yates book – “Brock Yates Sunday Driver” chapter 14, Yates tells
> the madcap exploits of the second, but first competitive “Cannon Ball Baker
> Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash.”
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> Seems that in the early morning Arizona desert dawn they blew by a Highway
> Patrolman having his morning coffee in a crappy little café just off the
> highway while doing about 140 mph.
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> Rattled the dishes and pissed the cop off who took after, and caught, Gurney
> and Yates trying to evade him at a quick turn off the highway gas station.
> Press hard . . . you’re making five copies. [editors note]
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> A fun 50 year (ye gads) old book.  Should be right next to your 50 copy of
> the 1972 book:  “Chevrolet=Racing . . . ? Fourteen years of Raucous
> Silence!!”
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> Anyway Mark – It would be fun to try .. . the cop may be laughing so hard
> he’ll let you go with a warning.
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> OH – and happy birthday.
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> Doug
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