This being my first post as moderator on the V8 Mustangs Messageboard, I thought I would test the waters by throwing out a post of my own.

How about it! Take a minute and pass along the story behind your best/worst, depending how you look at it, moving violation.

Now, I'm betting this is going to be one very interesting discussion. So lets see ......

Busted coming out of New Jersey around two in the morning by a State Trooper. Said he clocked me at 127 mph.

While I did have the needle buried, 127 mph was total bullshit since I was driving a Dodge Intrepid with a built in limiter.

Bullshit or not the ticket was real and I guess I was lucky he didn't drag me off to jail !

Hey Don
OK here we go. My worst/best violation (not caught by POLICE) happened in 1973 when I was driving a 1969 Buick special with 340 (yes boys Buick made a 340). I had just built the engine and was anxious to run it. I was side by side with a 1973 302 Torino 1am, and we dragged passing each other from the avalon mall to Holyrood (25 miles on a 2 laner for all you non newfies) for 10 minutes 30 seconds. That works out to 120 mph plus. I was real scared, but I wasn't going to loose this one.

I have a buddy with a M-3 BMW who has gotten moving several moving violations where he was 60 mph over the speed limit. His fastest was something like 120mph in a 65 mph and he has been known to do 140 mph without getting caught.

Got caught while still accelerating going 178 in a 90 zone entering from an onramp. Cop didn't think it was very funny, but only charged me with speeding, $30 fine and 3 demerits.

Ok try this one.

115 mph in a 289 powered Courier. Thats right a rice burner mini truck with American v8 attitude. Took the CHP (California Highway Patrol) 10 miles to catch me and thats because I was pulling into town were I live and was slowing down to turn. Believe it or not the officer was so impressed that a little truck could move like that he did not give me a ticket, but said if he saw my truck in the next 2 weeks he would impound the truck and throw my @#% in the can. Truck was in the driveway for 3 weeks

Tony B.
p.s. Scott don't tell Jesse. (lol)

Hi Don,

Heres my fastest moving violation:

I was at work on a Firday afternoon around 2:45 and had to get to the Bank by 3. So I got on the highway and opened up my 1986 Corvette. I was going around (130mph) in a 60 mph zone. I made it to the bank did what I had to do and went straight back to work again doing around 130 mph in a 60 mph zone. As i am just about to pull in the parking garage a cop stops me and asks to speak with me. So I pull into a parking lot, and get out of the car to talk to him.. He starts asking me where I was coming from and stuff, and says he just saw a car like mine heading out the highway, trying to get me to admit I was driving on that highway so he could give me a ticket. I told him I was in another part of town and there is another guy in the city who has a car that looks just like mine.

The cop knew i was lying but there was notting he could do because he did not have the license plate #.. So he said have a nice day and let me go... That was a pretty close call.

Years ago I use to race drag bikes. I built a 750cc up for the purpose. Just finished it and decided to head on out to the local street races that night. I get there and pull my bike up on the "other" side of a wall where the racing was going on, to do some bench racing In a matter of minutes the cops raid the race and everyone jumps in there cars and on their bikes to escape. I do the same, only my bike won't start. I'm really sweating bullets by now and decide to hope on the wall and play spectator. Now the spectators are a group of younger kids from the area that came out from their houses to watch. The cops come up and take some names to start calling parents. I'm 22 years old at this time. Hehe! I tell the cops that my parents aren't home (little do they know i am way to old to be living at home), the cops tells me to leave.

The whole time my bike is sitting behind this wall. Cops driving right by it. Luckly it was dark and my bike was black. So I hang out for a while for them to leave. I get my bike started and start to go home. On the way home I get pulled over by a cop. HE IS THE SAME COP, who questioned me, thinking i'm a kid. He says, "say, we have had some racing going on around here, do you know anything about that" I said "No". He looks at me for moment and says "you look really familiar, do I know you from somewhere"!! I said "No"! He shakes his head as if he had seen a ghost, and just told me to go ahead and leave.

It was too funny!! I felt really lucky that night!

I had a 70 GTO before i got my 99 gt and I had some gears i would put in it to play around on the highway, id use 4.11 for drag racing but i had some 2.56 gears that i would play on highways with and a cop clocked me at 177 miles an hour, pulled me over and freaked out on me, but after talking to me for a bit he found out that he use to pal around with my dad in highschool, so he ended up just giving me a warning and letting me go

Last Friday night at about 9:30 PM, I left my house in shorts & no shoes to go to McDonalds for a burger. It's 2 blocks from my house. As I was going down the street, the car next to me changes lanes & hits my car in the left frt corner. We pull over & stop, & as I get out of my car, the guy takes off & hops on the freeway. I hop in my car & start chasing this guy. I catch up to him & start bumping him in his rear bumper. He just keeps going faster & so now I'm holding the gas pedal all the way to the floor, riding his bumper. All of a sudden my ECU shuts down my car at a 130MPH & the guy gets away. I lift off the gas & my car gets going again. So I kept it 125Mph, but lost the guy. About 5 miles down the road the traffic is almost stopped & I all of a sudden see this guy again trying to get off of the freeway. I'm thinking, this is my lucky day! I weave my way to the right side of the freeway towards him & try & work him to the shoulder of the road, but he manages to go around behind me & heads towards the #1 lane. I begin to manuver behind him & I see why the traffic has been slowed down. There's a CHP(Calif Highway Patrol) "Traffic break" being implimented. I'm thinking, Boy, this really is my lucky day! The fleeing driver slams on his brakes & I slam into the rear of him & he spins around & hits the center divider. The Highway Patrolman stops & gets out of his car simulataneous with the fleeing driver & the fleeing driver is screaming that I'm crazy & that I ran into him on purpose for no reason. We all pull our cars to the shoulder of the road, along with some other car, who is claiming that the fleeing driver ran into the rear of their vehicle a mile back. We all tell our story to the CHP, including the third vehicle who is saying that it look like I was trying to chase this guy down. Of course, the fleeing driver is saying, he never touched my car & that he just thinks that I have a case of road rage going on. The officers first let the third car go & then let the fleeing car go(To my surprise) & the next thing I know, I'm being hand cuffed & taken to jail! I was charged with "Assault with a Deadly Weapon" (My car) & had to post $30,000 bail to get out! It's a frickin' Felony! I haven't had a ticket or an accident in over 10 years. I've never been arrested before, never anything! I'm 48 years old, I'm not a kid. Boy, I was right about one thing: It sure was my lucky day!
No joke, I'm still waiting to appear in court for my arraignment...

Steve! That bums! Just curious, but what kind of car was the other guy driving to leave you behind at 125MPH? Hope it works out for you!

The other guy was driving a mid 90s Olds Cutlass & I was driving a 2001 Isuzu Vehicross, if you know what that is. They build 900 of these a year. The only reason the guy got away from me was that it took almost a minute(It seemed like 10 minutes) before my engine came back on after the ECU shut down...

Sorry to hear about that Steve.

Me and my buddy got busted doing 140 down I81 South in a modified 89 Bird.

my fastest would probably be about 130, along with every other crazy@$$ on the freeway dodging truckers and other cars to go cruize in the next town over, but the stupidiest would have to be when i got pulled over for doing burnouts right next to the police station and then speeding off at 70 down the street, which i got caught for (3 years probation & $500 fine).

i wish i had a video camera, it was funny