helomech

Here is the video from my dash cam, this is why he pulled me over.

jjfabs

I was in Montana in 1973. As I cross into the state there is a sign and it says...... Speed Limit 85 at night, With caution and prudence in daytime......ahh the good old days. Wish I was in my vette for that but I was driving a '65 6 cyl..mustang at the time.

When I crossed into S.D. a state trooper followed me for an hour. I guess he saw my New York plates and was waiting for an excuse to pull me over or he was just lonely, not another human in sight the whole time.

SPSandman

My last ticket was in 1998 in my 1994 C4. I had just finished a straight run on the interstate and hit 160. It was pretty much done there. Definitely was enough for me.

Anyway, this is about 2:30-3 in the morning. I get onto i664 in Portsmouth to head home in Hampton. Shortly after I get onto the highway I see blue lights and I am shitting myself. He walks up and I roll the window down and answer all his questions.

State Trooper : "Do you know why I pulled you over?" (now since he asked this instead of pulling me out of the car and onto the hood, had my curiosity)
Me : "Not sure, I guess I was speeding?"
State Trooper : "Son, I got you going 73 in a 55, you really need to slow it down"
Me : "YES SIR! I am sorry."

He walks back and comes back and gives me the ticket.
Me : "Thank You Sir! Have a great night Sir!"

He probably had never seen someone so happy to get a ticket.

Haven't had a chance to get the C6 out there to top that. Only seen 120 briefly during a spell in Mexico.

marinablu67

I went cross country from NY to CA in a 1967 GTO convertible in 1969. Nevada at the time didn't have speed limit signs on the Interstate!

Vet Interested

I have been lucky. But sometimes you make your own luck. I drive to Arizona at least once every two months. Wait for a rabbit to pass and then back off and follow. Set cruise in the 88-92mph range with a radar detector. Never been pulled over. Always on I-8 which has much less traffic than I-10.

72greg

The only time in the '72 I had to produce my license and registration was for a check point on a holiday weekend.
Frankly I didn't speed badly in that car, most of the fun was done by 65 anyways.

The C6 is going to a much bigger challenge for sure.
My first heads up warning - on a nice early Saturday morning after I purchased the C6 on a run to nowhere in particular,...
My favorite cloverleaf entry point had a freaking cop stationed on the blind side of the hill of the entrance ramp.
I saw him as I crossed the overpass.
If I hadn't seen him, that would have been a whopper of a ticket for sure since I smoke it down that entrance ramp every chance I get.
Now I'm really paranoid.

Never had a radar detector, might have to get one,...

Landru

Won't bother w/ my tale, only a variation of the above.
But I will say, I had it coming.

Landru

'Rabbit trick' is a great skill, if possible.
Most ticket-dangerous setting IMO is what appears to be a vacant Interstate.
Instant-On Ka & Laser's a game changer too rendering many-a RD essentially obsolete, mine for one.

helomech

At least run Waze until you get a radar detector. I run both waze, my radar detector and escort live.

DebRedZR1

C6ZR1, lucky he didn’t catch me earlier at a higher rate or the consequences would have been far worse. Actually he was after another in our caravan who was approaching the 200 mark

Fast Dawg

My story.....

I had a 1991 C5 that was a garage queen when I lived in Illinois. I took her out at least once a month to "blow the soot out" of her. One fine Sunday afternoon I had been running errands in it and remembered that I hadn't put the pedal to the floor at all that day, so when I turned onto the road that lead to my subdivision and saw no cars in front of me I stomped it. There was a slight hill that I had to drive up and I saw the lights on top of the police car coming my way as he crested the hill. I looked at my HUD right as I was hammering the brakes to slow down. I was doing 93 in a 35. When he passed me I looked at him and saw he was looking at me. So I drove to where I could safely pull over and was waiting on him when he pulled up behind me, with only his lights flashing, with my license, registration, and insurance card in my hand. It was a city police officer.

Officer: I think you know why I pulled you over.
Me: Yes sir.
Officer: I just clocked you doing 68 in a 35.
Me: Yes sir.
Officer: Wait here.
I waited as he walked back to his car thinking I was about to go to jail. I was in a state with super speeder laws.

He came back to my car after a few minutes.
Officer: Sir - we know why you guys buy these cars, but there is a place and time to find out how fast they will go, and that place and time isn't on this stretch of road. Do you understand that?
Me: Yes sir.
Officer: I've just checked your driving record and see that it is clean, so I am going to do you a favor today. I'm going to adjust your speed on the warning I'm going to give you to 54 in a 35 so my Sargent won't question me and let you go with a warning. Is that fair if I ask you not to do this again?
Me: Yes sir!
Officer: Let me give you some advice. We both know if you go about 15 miles west of here there are miles and miles of rural roads between farm land, and from what I've been told as long as people slow down for the small towns, and they aren't out there doing something stupid like drag racing, the officers out there generally ignore people with cars like these. Do you think you can find your way out there?
Me: Yes sir.....and I really appreciate this.
Officer: (as he hands me the warning to sign) OK - you have a nice day and drive the speed limit going back home.

I couldn't believe it......and after that frequently went on long drives in the rural areas he told me about.

kgh06688

I'm a retired highway patrol sergeant (Texas DPS). I could do a long write up covering just about everything in this thread, but I won't. I'll put it this way. The majority (not all, though) of officers stop traffic violators to get the driver to behave, at least for a little while, and aren't the least bit interested in generating revenue for the city, county, or state. A side effect is that the other motorists who see the stop usually behave for awhile too, knowing the police are out and stopping cars. Whether you get a ticket or not depends a lot on your attitude and your violation. You will rarely if ever get a warning for triple digit speeds, more so if there is any traffic, and (in my case - I'm retired, but work as a deputy sheriff now) you'll never get a warning if you do anything that causes another driver to take evasive action (unless they take evasive action when it was unnecessary because they are a non-driver, i.e.: stupid).
Another trend nowadays is aggressive traffic enforcement in an effort to root out criminal activity (criminals use cars to get back and forth, too). The officer stops cars for anything and everything, but if you don't look or act like a crook, he's going to cut you loose with a warning, even for more "severe" violations.
And. . . radar detectors work well in moderate to heavy traffic conditions (or when the officer using radar really doesn't know how to use it right). In light traffic, with an officer who knows what he/she is doing, the RD just lets you know when to pull over and stop.

Tom Gilfoy

I don't drive it everyday but I do hot rod it when I do. The other day I hit 100 mph between two traffic lights surprisingly easy and its only a base 05 coupe with performance rear end and CAI.

FiveVettes

I've had maybe 2 speeding tickets in over 20 years of Vette driving. Was pulled over once around 1980, wasn't sure why, cop just wanted to talk to me about my '63 coupe.

kgh06688

Yup.
Me: Afternoon, Highway Patrol, you've been stopped because this is a '63 split window, I haven't seen one in a long time. If you have some time, can we talk about it?

If you don't, you are on your way. If you do, we find a parking lot and talk. Didn't do that a lot, but never had a complaint when I did. Most people like to talk about their cool ride.

72greg

I'm fortunate to have a wide variety of LEO's as friends.
A Highway Patrol buddy - I asked him, "When everyone is speeding it just seems terribly unfair that you pull one guy over"
He asked me, "Greg, when you go fishing at the lake, do you expect to catch all the fish?"