Speeding Ticket in C8
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I don't have stats but from my experience cops tend to pay attention to sports cars rather than your typical DD car. In my area there is still traffic law enforcement but it has been reduced dramatically. I use to see speed traps on roads near me on a regular basis, but they are rare nowadays. Hope it continues.
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I am not much of a Mopar fan, but if it was a 1965 Plymouth with the dual four-barrel setup, it might have been the 413 "wedge" V8 engine. The 426 was the "Hemi" engine and I think it came out a few years later. Besides, that Hemi would have been horrible on fuel and hard to keep tuned properly for the rigors of police use. One of the fastest police cars ever was the 1969 Dodge Polara with the optional 440-4bbl V8. Chrysler also had a "six pack" option (three two-barre carburetors) for the 440, but I don't know that it ever was sold as part of their police package. I shudder to think of having that much power with drum brakes, bias-ply tires and the primitive suspensions of that era.
Thanks for the great story! I bet that Florida trooper remembered that incident for many years afterwards.
My stepmother used to have a 1964 Plymouth Fury with the 413 - and it was truly a bad *** car. The dual-4bbl system would be a bear to keep properly adjusted. Then again, gasoline was cheap in those days.
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What? A speeding ticket in a C8? Seems officers would be "a sport" about it and only give warnings for a while due to the newness of the model and the drivers' enthusiasm in driving them, etc. Guess not.
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I am not much of a Mopar fan, but if it was a 1965 Plymouth with the dual four-barrel setup, it might have been the 413 "wedge" V8 engine. The 426 was the "Hemi" engine and I think it came out a few years later. Besides, that Hemi would have been horrible on fuel and hard to keep tuned properly for the rigors of police use. One of the fastest police cars ever was the 1969 Dodge Polara with the optional 440-4bbl V8. Chrysler also had a "six pack" option (three two-barre carburetors) for the 440, but I don't know that it ever was sold as part of their police package. I shudder to think of having that much power with drum brakes, bias-ply tires and the primitive suspensions of that era.
Thanks for the great story! I bet that Florida trooper remembered that incident for many years afterwards.
My stepmother used to have a 1964 Plymouth Fury with the 413 - and it was truly a bad *** car. The dual-4bbl system would be a bear to keep properly adjusted. Then again, gasoline was cheap in those days.
Thanks for the great story! I bet that Florida trooper remembered that incident for many years afterwards.
My stepmother used to have a 1964 Plymouth Fury with the 413 - and it was truly a bad *** car. The dual-4bbl system would be a bear to keep properly adjusted. Then again, gasoline was cheap in those days.
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I’ve had a couple tickets from cops that were purely revenue generation based. My wife had one such ticket. I’ve had a number of tickets that were totally fair as well. And, I had two special pullovers, one at 110 by a lady CHP officer and another where the two Sheriff officers said, “You were still strongly pulling away from us as we were accelerating through 120 and that was when you shut it down.” The last one we were passing 160 at the shutdown. In both cases they let us go and will be forever grateful to those officers!
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Not according to the oracle of truth, wiki: "The Chrysler Hemi engines, known by the trademark Hemi, are a series of American I6 and V8 gasoline engines built by Chrysler with hemispherical combustion chambers. Three different types of Hemi engines have been built by Chrysler for automobiles: the first (known as the Chrysler FirePower engine) from 1951 to 1958,[1] the second from 1964 to 1971, and the third beginning in 2003. Although Chrysler is most identified with the use of "Hemi" as a marketing term, many other auto manufacturers have incorporated similar designs.
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Didn't get my c8 yet, but honestly I do 100+mph in my c6 every day. Highest I have done is 136, and worst ticket was 117. I just got out of a 77 in a 40 yesterday, PBA gold card FTW! ( not as bad as it sounds, long country road with one spot to pass followed immediately by a steep downhill and he got me just as I was finishing passing a jeep and coming off the throttle, 2 seconds later it would have been 55 or so)
To the guys chastising others like me for speeding, why the hell did you buy a corvette to go the speed limit anyway?!
To the guys chastising others like me for speeding, why the hell did you buy a corvette to go the speed limit anyway?!
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I agree. Being a police officer today is a very unforgiving job that I wouldn't take regardless of the pay.
I don't have stats but from my experience cops tend to pay attention to sports cars rather than your typical DD car. In my area there is still traffic law enforcement but it has been reduced dramatically. I use to see speed traps on roads near me on a regular basis, but they are rare nowadays. Hope it continues.
I don't have stats but from my experience cops tend to pay attention to sports cars rather than your typical DD car. In my area there is still traffic law enforcement but it has been reduced dramatically. I use to see speed traps on roads near me on a regular basis, but they are rare nowadays. Hope it continues.
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