My wife is officially afraid of my S4
06-26-2007, 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by silbershark
Fun thread! In my family, I'm the one who drives my passengers to vomit.
I don't have any cool stories to share, though. But I did get pulled over once when I was seven months pregnant because some old fart called me in for reckless driving (HIS opinion). The officer just rolled his eyes and told me to have a nice evening......and, well, I guess I did roll my Toyota into a cow pasture once..... BUT I've never had a moving violation in the twenty-five years I've been driving so I must be doing something right.... or too slow!
In the end-
I would be interested in a good driving class (and a radar detector). It would be mucho fun to have a PacNW928 women's class. Doesn't PCA sponsor classes?
I don't have any cool stories to share, though. But I did get pulled over once when I was seven months pregnant because some old fart called me in for reckless driving (HIS opinion). The officer just rolled his eyes and told me to have a nice evening......and, well, I guess I did roll my Toyota into a cow pasture once..... BUT I've never had a moving violation in the twenty-five years I've been driving so I must be doing something right.... or too slow!
In the end-
I would be interested in a good driving class (and a radar detector). It would be mucho fun to have a PacNW928 women's class. Doesn't PCA sponsor classes?
Karen,
Classes are sponsored by several organizations including Team Continental and Cascade Sports Car club in the Portland area and the International Race Drivers Club in Seattle area. These clubs are affiliated with the ICSCC (International Conference of Sports Car Clubs) and the courses are part of the process of getting a racing license. I am sure the SCCA also offers classes.
The classes usually require an evening or day of ground school where you learn a lot of vocabulary about apex, increasing and decreasing radius turns, off camber corners, oversteer, push, trail braking, traction circles and a multitude of other interesting
but necessary things so you can translate what the driving instructors are trying to tell you when you are on the track. You also learn what all the flags mean and how to respond to them. I can't imagine you would not be able to find a class. Go for it. You will find out a lot of stuff you didn't know you didn't know. Have fun!
http://www.teamcontinental.com/
http://www.cascadesportscarclub.org/
http://www.irdc-racing.com/
http://www.icscc.com/
06-28-2007, 10:54 PM
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I suspected I was a lucky man, and then I read this thread. My wife has ridden with my 2-3 times in my new 997 Targa 4S and has said nothing as I take corners in Seattle at 35+; nor when I launch off those lovely highway ramps onto I-90.
I then overhear her talking to a girlfriend quoting stats: "Yeah, he can go 0-60 in 4 something seconds. Oh, and he will be driving all normal and slow down a bit to get some distance between the next car and then just accelerate to 40 through a turn! It is so cool!"
I heard all this and I had no idea she was even paying attention!
- Jeff
I then overhear her talking to a girlfriend quoting stats: "Yeah, he can go 0-60 in 4 something seconds. Oh, and he will be driving all normal and slow down a bit to get some distance between the next car and then just accelerate to 40 through a turn! It is so cool!"
I heard all this and I had no idea she was even paying attention!
- Jeff
07-02-2007, 01:13 PM
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My wife and I went on our first extended drive together in the GT this weekend - up to Hunter, NY and back on Saturday. If you know the area, then you know 23A between Palenville and Tannersville is one of those special stretches of road that you highlight on the mental map in your head. The first section was marred by three cars dawdling along in front of us, but they were dispatched en masse at the first passing zone. The rest of the way up the mountain was all screaming downshifts and big, dirty fun. Her only complaint was that there's no oh-$hit-handle for her to grab onto when I go into a turn really fast.
When we first started dating and I saw her slicing and dicing traffic on I-95 for the first time, I started to fall in love. She's definitely more in the "Pass them all!!" category than the "Slow down!" category, but she does freak out about high rates of closing speed. I made a high-speed run during the trip on I-84 coming down a big hill (I mean, and attractive nuisance, your honor!), and while I was watching the lane and the gages (made it up to 137 mph!), she was watching us approach the car up ahead and began to brace for impact - when we were still over a quarter mile away! Granted, everyone's mental calculus needs some recalibration to gage what's really happening on at those speeds, but that's the one way she gets a little too tight.
By the way, I've noticed that members tend to include explanations of the pavement quality, traffic load, and weather conditions every time they tell about doing something extra-legal on public roads (like running 137 mph on an interstate highway... with no cars at all in the expanse in question on seamless pavement on a sunny (but not too sunny!) summer day, light breezes from the northwest...). While I understand why people are posting all of these disclaimers (because of the mob waiting to pounce on them for their immoral driving habits), I have no intention to make a habit of it myself.
We here are all speed freaks of one sort or another, and we have all passed on the right in an empty lane and exceeded the posted speed limit and such things, and considered them reasonable actions with minimal risks, at least at the time. If I tell you that I ran the 928 up to 1XX mph on public roads, please go ahead and assume that it was only done under the safest and most favorable conditions, and not at night, in the rain, with one headlight out and the right-front tire 10 lbs low, with a dirty windshield, all the while running my fellow motorists off the road.
The first section was marred by three cars dawdling along in front of us, but they were dispatched en masse at the first passing zone. The rest of the way up the mountain was all screaming downshifts and big, dirty fun. Her only complaint was that there's no oh-$hit-handle for her to grab onto when I go into a turn really fast.When we first started dating and I saw her slicing and dicing traffic on I-95 for the first time, I started to fall in love. She's definitely more in the "Pass them all!!" category than the "Slow down!" category, but she does freak out about high rates of closing speed. I made a high-speed run during the trip on I-84 coming down a big hill (I mean, and attractive nuisance, your honor!), and while I was watching the lane and the gages (made it up to 137 mph!), she was watching us approach the car up ahead and began to brace for impact - when we were still over a quarter mile away! Granted, everyone's mental calculus needs some recalibration to gage what's really happening on at those speeds, but that's the one way she gets a little too tight.
By the way, I've noticed that members tend to include explanations of the pavement quality, traffic load, and weather conditions every time they tell about doing something extra-legal on public roads (like running 137 mph on an interstate highway... with no cars at all in the expanse in question on seamless pavement on a sunny (but not too sunny!) summer day, light breezes from the northwest...). While I understand why people are posting all of these disclaimers (because of the mob waiting to pounce on them for their immoral driving habits), I have no intention to make a habit of it myself.
We here are all speed freaks of one sort or another, and we have all passed on the right in an empty lane and exceeded the posted speed limit and such things, and considered them reasonable actions with minimal risks, at least at the time. If I tell you that I ran the 928 up to 1XX mph on public roads, please go ahead and assume that it was only done under the safest and most favorable conditions, and not at night, in the rain, with one headlight out and the right-front tire 10 lbs low, with a dirty windshield, all the while running my fellow motorists off the road.
