Only in Texas

Boomer7 · Apr 27, 2009

Armchair_QB said:

Killick said:

Once, when on a trip to Houston for the college paper, got a rental car up to 110MPH on the I-10 between New Orleans and the Texas border. Along there, it's raised highway, two lanes in either direction and separate bridges for both directions. The only way you're getting caught is if you blow by a cop. So, I took it to 110.

Next day, driving back east from Houston, I got nailed for doing 65 in a 55 just inside the Texas border (before the split starts). Felt like telling the cop "Sixty five? You should have seen me yesterday!"
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Vidor?
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Outing alert: Killick is really Lewis Hamilton.

fossywriter8 · Apr 28, 2009

Around 1992 or '93, I pegged the speedometer (somewhere around 115 mph) on my 1985 Chevy Impala on some back-country road in Iowa between Des Moines and Pella. I soon thought better of it and backed it on down. Car ran great, though, like floating on air.

dargan · Apr 29, 2009

Killick said:

Once, when on a trip to Houston for the college paper, got a rental car up to 110MPH on the I-10 between New Orleans and the Texas border. Along there, it's raised highway, two lanes in either direction and separate bridges for both directions. The only way you're getting caught is if you blow by a cop. So, I took it to 110.

Next day, driving back east from Houston, I got nailed for doing 65 in a 55 just inside the Texas border (before the split starts). Felt like telling the cop "Sixty five? You should have seen me yesterday!"
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Was this feat near the Henderson Swamp?

Whatever the case, going to 110 on that stretch of highway takes a pair of persimmons.

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