Automotive Exceptionalism

I think all cars should be crazy colors. It makes for easy location in parking lots...but has disadvantages when driving home late at night

So next time ol' Fido has the pink crayon out, I'll say " Oh look....... it's Ruby Stone Red!"

in need of power?



a V8-dream with 321 PS

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One night rather more than 20 years ago I was going that fast in my Lotus, well possibly a touch more. Clear night, midweek, hardly any traffic (getting my excuses in here....), two places on that road to back off and pay extra attention, a golf club entrance and a staggered crossroads. Came to a major junction with a big roundabout (traffic circle). Sitting to the side was a marked police car. Ahhh, OK, I should give them something to pull me over for to "have a word" but not enough to be worth their while with the paperwork. Exactly three mph over speed limit will do nicely.

Five miles later they turn on the blues and pull me over. "We don't know fast you were going when we first saw you sir" was the introductory remark. Well I did know, but to say so would be regarded as taking the piss -- it was about 30mph. The roundabout was notorious for spilled diesel fuel thanks to a large filling-station and truck-stop right next to it and taking it easy around there was a good idea. Had they mentioned when they first heard my car, well that may have been different matter. Sound carries at 02:00. The administered breathalyser test was completely green as I hadn't had a drink that night, and I was sent on my way.

What I did not tell them was what I had attended that evening. A presentation on how to escape/evade police pursuit, with genuine real-life video, given by a senior instructor at Hendon Police College where the Class One police drivers in England are trained. Some evading drivers did get away, some died. About 50/50 in the videos. Fancy your chances? Not me, or anyone else in the audience, all Lotus owners.

Many years ago I had a modified Jaguar V12, it was pretty loud, one night I was heading home from a mate's place on a twisty road that I knew well and I was fairly giving it the beans!
I come around a blind corner to find Senior Constable Plod standing in the middle of the road waving a light batton wanting to stop me for a breathalyzer test......The stupid bastard quickly realised his mistake in choosing such a place to place an ambush and dropped his silly baton and dived away, meanwhile I'm hard on the brakes! I managed to pull up just shy of the baton.
And a very red faced copper on his arse! his partner was too busy rolling about laughing.
The idiot copper got up and asked me to blow into the breatho, and of course it came up well below the limit, I did mention that it wasn't a very clever place to set up, as it was a blind corner in the direction I was traveling and easily visible from the pub down the street where the drunks would be coming from but obviously wont as they could see him before they got in their cars. So he shouldn't expect to get much business there!
If they had set up another 300 metres up the road from the direction I was comming from they would had a safe spot not visable from the pub with plenty of room.
What a knob jockey!

Guess there is no space - as in a 750 😉

An event in Daytona called the Roar before the 24.

Yes can’t believe it’s 2026 either