wanna911

I have some vid of me passing a police crown vic that runs with NASA in the southeast, I think it runs time trials.

The 4 arm point by was awesome though.

Bull

There is nothing like the sound of automatic weapons fire at the range while running right past it on the Shenandoah Course! Or the sound of loudly squealing Caprice tires from the Jefferson Circuit while running Summit Point.

Veloce Raptor

I would not know ANYTHING about ANY of that...

F350Lawman

If we are going to do this right, we need the older square body style police packaged Vics and Caprices w/ carbs, dual exhaust, "moon" hubcaps and (terrible in the rain)original Eagle GTs. I owned and drove so many of those cars...I might do pretty well

Driving those cars through the streets in a big city quickly is where I developed my bad habit (which some vague remnants remain and I occasionally fall into) of braking hard, tossing the car and letting the tail flip around. It is not very effective unless you need to turn a car w/o going into the incoming traffic on you street at the begining of the turn or the oncoming lane of the one you're turning to. It works great in a policed up family sedan..less so in a 930

For the grand finale, we could have a Police package Suburban/Tahoe/Durango class...now that could get dicey!

schwank

We had a guy come last year to a DE in a rental Mufftang. They too had to change out brakes and flip the tires before turning it back in.

Flogged the sheisse out of that car too.

Bull

When did you begin painting your nails?

Veloce Raptor

After you sent me your extra polish & gloss, remember?

amaist

Been there, done that.

Once me and a friend rented a 2005 Mustang V6 slushomatic for Sebring Winterfest because our shared Lancer Evo developed a problem. My right arm got a lot stronger from all the point-bys. The rear rotors were grooved by the end. Returned it like that. No extra charges from Hertz. And that was precisely the time when paying for extra insurance made sense.

In the Northeast there is a guy (or maybe was) who regularly tracked a Mercury Marauder (a spiced up Grand Marquis) with LSD and Pirelli slicks. Quite a show. He was quick and in the rain with rain race tires he was the fastest guy on the track.

The local PCA chapter a few years ago rented a bunch of Lincoln Town Cars for the instructor day as a teaching tool. You learn weight transfer very quickly in a car like that. All your inputs are very much visible from the outside as the nose goes up and down by up to 2 feet.

A friend of mine rented a Shelby GTH recently and took it to the track. He enjoyed it.

Bull

THAT's what I did with my ex-wife's stuff!

mkd944

A friend of mine rented a Neon at Homestead after his 944 Turbo developed problems. He also got tired of the constant point-bys and this was his solution...

Erik

Andrei, I remember that one. We were parked almost next to you guys. I had the Cobalt Blue GT3. I remember you guys running out of brake pads by the second day, going to every auto part store looking for new pads, which no one carried yet since the car was so new.

hacker-pschorr

That was awesome!

I'm starting to get some strange ideas for my next track car

DogInBlack

I've been educated! Notice the tire marks into 14a- uh, not the ones into the tire barrier.

Veloce Raptor

That actually looks like 13...and LOL at him already dialing in a tiny bit of opposite lock!

Noel

I can vouch for that. My shared autocross ride for three short autocrosses in the 90s. Too fun...