Did you really drive *that* quickly 'back in the day'?
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vixen1700 said:
So it's safe to say driving habits have changed over the past thirty years after reading through this thread. 
Yeah mostly as said, people get older. Some people however are still a bit daft...https://news.sky.com/story/police-to-investigate-h...
The doors were flapping the whole way 
neutral 3 said:
In the early 1980s, this was the fastest 3 Litre Capri, in East London. We never did find out just who had “ tweaked “ its engine ( Broadspeed possibly as it was first registered not far from them ) or Uren or Lumo maybe, but it would pull 128 @ 5,800 rpm and was still pulling, but was diabolically unstable @ high speeds, it needed a spoiler.
I’ve lost count of just how many, tear ups I had in this car....the epic dice, with an immaculate 69 Shelby GT500 Mustang, through Chingford, in April 82, must be the highlight.
I ran a series of 3 Litre Capris and TR-6s, through the 80s and was a total hooligan.
Edited by neutral 3 on Thursday 21st May 01:13
MC Bodge said:
Every man thinks that they can fight and drive with the best of them, without any training.
Never mind driving. The best "fighter" I know is my Partner's friend, a nurse, 5'5. slightly built and a woman.I'll expand on the nurse bit by saying she is a mental health professional working on an acute psychiatric ward.
Her patients are basically people who have not been placed in the likes of Broadstairs yet, but given time, the opportunity, and sufficient neglect from the mental healthcare system, sadly, that's where they are likely to end up.
Some of these poor souls can be incredibly volatile and lash out. As such this nurse gets caught up in more incidents in a month than any of us will get caught up with in our lifetimes.
To deal with this the staff receive what they call "Escape Training"(self defence sounds too aggressive and violent).
Her primary skill is that of de-escalating situations and using her talking skills to persuade the clinically violently off their heads not to thump her and to constantly exercise a situation awareness and forethought that allows an escape route if the calming words don't work . She takes a professional pride not positive resolutions of incidents she has been involved with but the relative lack of incidents she has been involved with.
Thereafter the training is all about how to deal with rugby player sized foaming at the mouth nutters intent on tearing you apart without receiving injuries yet without inflicting injury deemed unreasonable in the given circumstances. In a best case scenario said nutter ends up asleep on the ground with a bumcheekful of medication that will leave him at peace with the world for a few hours to come.
I have a feeling that her training and general familiarity with violent interaction would give many a powerfully built company director type a fright were they ever to find themselves in a physical altercation.
I'm only 26, but did drive like a cock when I was younger.
One occurrence that sticks in mind was when I was 22, with a fettled Megane 250. From memory I managed to do a 12 mile stretch of twisting B roads on a Sunday morning in about 10 minutes. Nearly every turn the rear of the car was on the limit of grip, with the rear end just starting to mobilise.
The car had Semi slicks on, and when I pulled over the brakes were smoking that much they were pretty much on fire, and the tyres were too hot to touch and had a lot of rubber shreds inside the grooves.
I drove down the same road a few months back and was shuddering at some of the speeds I entered the corners. It was comfortably into triple diggies in places.
One occurrence that sticks in mind was when I was 22, with a fettled Megane 250. From memory I managed to do a 12 mile stretch of twisting B roads on a Sunday morning in about 10 minutes. Nearly every turn the rear of the car was on the limit of grip, with the rear end just starting to mobilise.
The car had Semi slicks on, and when I pulled over the brakes were smoking that much they were pretty much on fire, and the tyres were too hot to touch and had a lot of rubber shreds inside the grooves.
I drove down the same road a few months back and was shuddering at some of the speeds I entered the corners. It was comfortably into triple diggies in places.
MC Bodge said:
vixen1700 said:
So it's safe to say driving habits have changed over the past thirty years after reading through this thread.
The people have also become older.
ds that dare to speed are going to get what they deserve. Fresh Air Ian said:
A much higher number of drivers do not like being overtaken these days compared with years ago as well.
Driving faster has become far less acceptable in society. Probably due to the massive number of people that have been caught speeding.
More cars and the driving population has become much older too. Driving faster has become far less acceptable in society. Probably due to the massive number of people that have been caught speeding.
When as an apprentice mechanic we were on day release at College in Sunderland, we would visit a pub in South Shields for a bite to eat at lunchtime .
7 miles across a town centre at lunchtime, order a bite to eat , eat it and return to college within 60 minutes.
One of the lecturers didn’t believe what we got up to , so we took him .....once.
Joking apart , we’d probably be jailed now for the standard of driving , never mind being banned for years.
Never got caught, never caused an accident, never hurt anyone, looking back it was utter madness and I genuinely don’t know how.
7 miles across a town centre at lunchtime, order a bite to eat , eat it and return to college within 60 minutes.
One of the lecturers didn’t believe what we got up to , so we took him .....once.
Joking apart , we’d probably be jailed now for the standard of driving , never mind being banned for years.
Never got caught, never caused an accident, never hurt anyone, looking back it was utter madness and I genuinely don’t know how.
MC Bodge said:
Tannedbaldhead said:
Am sure there isn't a man alive who hasn't maxed their transport just out of curiousity on a quiet bit of motorway
That may have been almost true in the past, when normal cars could creep up to 100-110mph downhill and avoiding speed enforcement relied mostly on spotting Police cars or having an apologetic conversation at the side of the road 
Nowadays, even fairly normal cars can do 135-140mph, speed is monitored more stealthily and high speeds are punished harshly. Fewer people are into cars too.
I think He learned quite a lot, on how to build an AC Cobra (Whether he wanted to or not!
)I cannot think of a single one of my mates who would have dared to do that when I was this kids age.
Not one!
I don't suppose I was faster back in the day as cars were generally slower and put politely i was not that good at driving.......obviously believed differently back then, as evidence by returning to those same early driving roads and reminiscing of all the stupid and regular overtaking maneuvers/opportunities that today look frightening to even consider.
I definitely drove with less caution and without as much thought of "what if I come round this corner and xyz is in the middle of the road". I think a lot of people probably would consider their younger selves as a bit of a tool but you do become more cautious once you've had a few frights. Of course there are some people that never grow out of it.
Fiammetta said:
Did 1100 miles in a 86 911 Carrara In 9 hrs inc pit stops returning from the Monaco GP .
That car was as tough as nails , at some points On French autoroutes sat @140 Mph .Slats on the whale tail face forwards ....so I guess quite a lot of air forced through the engine compartment at high speeds .
New 968 CS with few miles returned from Metz to Calais irrc 400 miles in less than 3 hrs touching 170 cruising @150 + mph in early hrs in June .
Next day home pools of oil under the rear transaxle ......both drive shaft oil seals had blown out .Warranty job , flatbed to the OPC
“ we have never seen theses go before sir “
Car had then 3000 miles and was 3 months old in 94
On a flat motorway straight 187 Mph in a Testarossa ....it bounces off the redline and goes like stink from 140 up .The Pork creeps up that last 10-15 mph .Not this .Steering lightens up above 140 bit too light tbo .
2008 December ( shorty after U.K. launch ) in a new X6 3.0 d on German autobahn 130 mph , slight crap to clean off the screen the headlight washers come on every 4 wiper sweeps or something.Got home to find the bumper covers had flown off .....just leaving the pipes / nozzles .
Warranty job ....aero dynamically as they rise up to squirt they resemble a x section of a wing and the excess lift @ high I presume must had ripped them off .
Again back in the U.K.
“ we have never seen anything like this sir “
I suspect they modded the part eventually as others round the EU would inevitably find out .
Theses days are gone , born in the early 60 ,s and roads caked in scam - cameras , I drive sedately now even on French autoroutes never really exceed 82 .In the U.K. theses days ...no chance
I like your style That car was as tough as nails , at some points On French autoroutes sat @140 Mph .Slats on the whale tail face forwards ....so I guess quite a lot of air forced through the engine compartment at high speeds .
New 968 CS with few miles returned from Metz to Calais irrc 400 miles in less than 3 hrs touching 170 cruising @150 + mph in early hrs in June .
Next day home pools of oil under the rear transaxle ......both drive shaft oil seals had blown out .Warranty job , flatbed to the OPC
“ we have never seen theses go before sir “
Car had then 3000 miles and was 3 months old in 94
On a flat motorway straight 187 Mph in a Testarossa ....it bounces off the redline and goes like stink from 140 up .The Pork creeps up that last 10-15 mph .Not this .Steering lightens up above 140 bit too light tbo .
2008 December ( shorty after U.K. launch ) in a new X6 3.0 d on German autobahn 130 mph , slight crap to clean off the screen the headlight washers come on every 4 wiper sweeps or something.Got home to find the bumper covers had flown off .....just leaving the pipes / nozzles .
Warranty job ....aero dynamically as they rise up to squirt they resemble a x section of a wing and the excess lift @ high I presume must had ripped them off .
Again back in the U.K.
“ we have never seen anything like this sir “
I suspect they modded the part eventually as others round the EU would inevitably find out .
Theses days are gone , born in the early 60 ,s and roads caked in scam - cameras , I drive sedately now even on French autoroutes never really exceed 82 .In the U.K. theses days ...no chance
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