Speeding With Kids In The Car.

[Tannedbaldhead]

Read a couple of stories in the press recently where drivers were lambasted for speeding with "terrified" kids in the car. Terrified my arse. My dad was fast but still not fast enough for us(fair enough he raced an an Intercity 125 in an Audi 100 5E where the railway line and motorway ran parallel, made car tyres scream round corners on our request, take off on humps and drifted his 2.3 Granada on wet roundabouts if his three unrestrained kids in the back screamed "make it skid make it skid" but we want more speed more of the time". If he was caught doing any of that now he'd make the front page of the Daily Mail and many of the sadder risk averse element on here would pontificate about just how outrageous such behavior is.

Is this because the kids of today aren't of the calliber of us 70s kids?

Not my experience. My wee nephew and niece read the big central speedo on my Cooper S and asked if I'd do 150mph for them. I explained the car could only do 140mph and I have to be very careful where and when I do it as if the police caught me I'd be put in prison. My niece replied "it's allright, just do it. If you get caught we'll come and visit you"