Procrastination leads to Performance Award.

clinehall · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2015 7:59 pm

MikeWhitney wrote:

Dammit Cline, stop talking about driving the 996, you're making it hard for me to get over it. If you sleep with someone else's wife, do you post about it on Facebook too? Sheesh, attention whore... :lol:

Serious point #1: Get a V1 and get over your moral dilemmas. This is a battle over your money and who gets to keep it, you or them (including the blood sucking insurance industry, ha!). Information creates an advantage, and the V1 creates information. I don't care if I'm going 0 over, 5 over, or driving 25 over with a beer between my legs while texting someone, I want to know that there's a cop up ahead checking speed.

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Serious point #3: If you ever sell the Porsche I want 1st dibs to buy it back

I will give you first pop at her, even though she loves me more than you.

I'm ashamed to admit I'm very familiar with Wave but haven't installed it. I'm going to rationalize that in this rural area it probably wouldn't have helped but we will never know.

JasonWatts · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2015 11:53 pm

MikeWhitney wrote:

Serious point #2: Anyone use Waze? I can't believe I only recently discovered it. Now THAT's a cool information device.

Ive used it. It puts out a lot of old data, meaning it has cops tagged that are not there. I like the traffic accident reports. I was riding passenger with someone who was routed around an accident before we got stuck in it.

Honestly, I dont use it very often. But most of my driving is back and forth to work. I also dont have a good way of mounting my phone making it visible so, again I dont use it very much.

Michael Westerfield · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2015 8:30 am

Cline,
You need more racing suit in that picture.

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2015 8:37 am

Michael Westerfield wrote:

Cline,
You need more racing suit in that picture.

...or a new pose. I'll bet he's got a thousand pics with that same stance.

Michael Westerfield · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2015 8:40 am

Vincent Keene wrote:

Michael Westerfield wrote:

Cline,
You need more racing suit in that picture.

...or a new pose. I'll bet he's got a thousand pics with that same stance.

Definitely has a serious look on his face. Porsche ownership is srz bzns.

clinehall · **Posted:** Thu May 14, 2015 7:40 am

Michael Westerfield wrote:

Vincent Keene wrote:

Michael Westerfield wrote:

Cline,
You need more racing suit in that picture.

...or a new pose. I'll bet he's got a thousand pics with that same stance.

Definitely has a serious look on his face. Porsche ownership is srz bzns.

Just like Mama said, "those bigger boys pick on you because they're jealous"

I do need to photo shop this into the picture:

I've got to go to a PCA event with this

steve remchak · **Posted:** Thu May 14, 2015 10:54 am

clinehall wrote:

MikeWhitney wrote:

Dammit Cline, stop talking about driving the 996, you're making it hard for me to get over it. If you sleep with someone else's wife, do you post about it on Facebook too? Sheesh, attention whore... :lol:

Serious point #1: Get a V1 and get over your moral dilemmas. This is a battle over your money and who gets to keep it, you or them (including the blood sucking insurance industry, ha!). Information creates an advantage, and the V1 creates information. I don't care if I'm going 0 over, 5 over, or driving 25 over with a beer between my legs while texting someone, I want to know that there's a cop up ahead checking speed.

)
Serious point #3: If you ever sell the Porsche I want 1st dibs to buy it back

I will give you first pop at her, even though she loves me more than you.

I'm ashamed to admit I'm very familiar with Wave but haven't installed it. I'm going to rationalize that in this rural area it probably wouldn't have helped but we will never know.

Did you forget to wear your gold necklace that day??? And you need some perforated leather driving gloves too.

I paid an attorney for my last ticket in the DC / Richmond corridor ... I don't remember the outcome but you could likely pull my DMV report and check....

clinehall · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2015 6:34 am

I did search on line for some leather work gloves, I used to have some goat skin gloves from a local factory that were the best gloves I've ever seen so I was trying to find them. Now every website I visit gives me an ad for those nifty little driving gloves the guys wore in the 50's, If I get an Jaguar E Type I just might have to get some of those, and a pipe!

http://www.leatherglovesonline.com/np/M ... ge=details

Rob Keehner · **Posted:** Fri May 22, 2015 11:29 pm

Waze is better than a detector. The longer you are on route the better it works.

DickRasmussen · **Posted:** Sat May 23, 2015 11:44 am

Chuck Branscomb wrote:

You know you're old when....

...your last speeding ticket was in 1983 :shock:

and only because the Escort (original version of course) decided to quietly quit working.

My last one was around that time . . . test driving my Lotus Europa in California on an almost straight freeway ramp after making a hard left turn at about 25 mph to verify a carb "cornering fuel slosh fix". Long story but I did get to go to traffic school so ticket went away in regard to points and insurance.

My biggest concern these days is test drives in the Mustang. :roll:

Long trips are easy . . . Kelly watches my speed constantly. :lol:

DickRasmussen · **Posted:** Sat May 23, 2015 11:49 am

How is Waze regarding phone battery life if not plugged in? I'm thinking it might be useful to check local potential test drive routes prior to leaving home. However most of the semi country roads near me don't have enough traffic to justify a speed trap . . . only the random sheriff patrol.

My new Garmin does a good job with traffic alerts on major highways.

Chris Halweg · **Posted:** Sat May 23, 2015 5:56 pm

DickRasmussen wrote:

How is Waze regarding phone battery life if not plugged in? I'm thinking it might be useful to check local potential test drive routes prior to leaving home. However most of the semi country roads near me don't have enough traffic to justify a speed trap . . . only the random sheriff patrol.

My new Garmin does a good job with traffic alerts on major highways.

I usually lose about 10% charge in a 20 minute commute. It will actually give you a list of routes to choose from and will note the the alerts present including police IIRC. It's excellent picking up speed traps and even ones that are common, but that may not be 'active'. This is good so you are not the first performance award of the day.

MikeWhitney · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2003 9:15 pm **Posts:** 4724

I got busted on the drive home from Watkins Glen on Memorial Day. I'm driving the Durango, towing a 26' camper. Marginally too little tow vehicle for the load, so I'm going right around the speed limit +/- 5mph basically the whole trip. Driving through VA I swear there was a cop every 5 miles. It was unbelievable. No worries, I'm not speeding. Besides, no cop EVER pulls over an RV. Have you ever seen an RV pulled over? I didn't think so.

Drove past a radar trap (no worries), and a few minutes later I'm astounded to see flashing lights behind me. Pull over, open the windows, hands on the wheel. Cop walks up and says "I'd like to see your license, registration, and your radar detector." Oh yeah, these things are illegal here, aren't they? I never even gave it a second thought to have the V1 up and on since I've been doing it for so long, and I had believed (based on 17 year old information) that the V1 is undetectable (it is undetectable to the "old" detector detectors, the VG2, but they have something newer called a "Spectre" which picks up the V1). Oops. $70ish fine and no confiscation, no points (not a moving violation). Glad he didn't ask any questions about firearms, since there was a loaded SA 45ACP sitting behind the seat in a bag

So what have I learned from this lesson? Nothing at all. I'm going to keep using my V1 in VA. I've been driving through VA a couple times a year for 17 years. Speeding tickets = 0, Illegal Radar detector tickets = 1. I'm fine with those odds.

Chris Halweg · **Posted:** Fri May 29, 2015 9:31 am

If you use IFTTT, it might be best to make a recipe to alert you when you enter VA to check your radar detector. You could set it up with GPS points that are on the border of the roads you frequent.

clinehall · **Posted:** Fri May 29, 2015 1:40 pm

Does anybody know the governor of Virginia? As much money as we spend at VIR, we should get free passes on tickets in their fair state.

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