Hello mark.

27 Mar 33 09:34, you wrote to JAY EMRIE:


 ml> [[crossposted to AUTOMOTIVE which could definitely use this
 ml> traffic]]

Thanks.

 TW>>> Fastest Freeway Patrol Cars in the Nation.
 TW>>> Those days are long gone as not they have vto be satisfied
 TW>>> with the Standard "Police Specials". Which nowdays are
 TW>>> amlmost exclusevely FORDS.

 JE>> I do not remember what make, but the Texas Hi way patrol
 JE>> has some super souped up patrol cars now. No way any
 JE>> normal vehicle will out run one of them.

 ml> if they are like they were when i was last out that way, their
 ml> biggest feature is all the additional cooling capabilities... extra
 ml> large radiator, additional oil coolers and tranny fluid coolers...
 ml> it wasn't that they were so fast but that they could simply last
 ml> longer at high speed than those they were chasing... all they
 ml> needed to do was to keep them in sight ;)

I was there in November. On my way, driving my 88 IROC, I noticed some
headlights in the rearview mirror coming on fast. I was doing the Texas
daytime speed-limit of 70mph + 5mph. I slowed to 70mph, then 65mph
(night speed-limit) as the headlights got closer and closer. When the
headlights finally caught up to me and passed me like I was sitting
still, it was a Texas Ranger - Ford Victoria. I could easily outrun that
car in my 98 Z28 Camaro (PCM speed-limiter programmed off), but the
radio in the Vic would have troopers waiting for me down the road.




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