Thrilling experience (bear with me, it was my first time!)

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Aug 16, 2001 | 04:56 AM

nansaidh

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Thrilling experience (bear with me, it was my first time!)

Picture it:

Beautiful morning. On a looong drive in northern NY, the I-87 Northway was practically deserted early in the morning... seen no troopers, the V1's quiet and I've not done much less than 90 mph since leaving CT... I decide I'm brave enough to give this a go. I've been nuts to see what real speed feels like.

No cars in sight. Long way until next exit. Alright now, get up the nerve.

Accelerator down. Speedo climbs... 110, 120, 130... rock solid handling, no wavering, totally sticking to the tarmac, around the bends, no uncertainty at all... I'm committed now.

I did it... 143 mph and I feel the engine stop receiving fuel... I coast a second and then I'm back up above 140 again... WOW this is amazing. I'm sure I'm addicted at this point.

Prudently (no comments) I let off the gas and coast down slowly to 120 or so, hold it and enjoy the blast of the surroundings flying by... the exhileration of 4 minutes of pure joy. Coast back to earth (aka 80 mph or so).

The 'afterglow'... legs a bit weak, tingling all over, blood rushing in my head... definitely up there with sex (again, no comments!).

Epilogue: Obviously my first really capable car. Probably a foolish thing to do but hey, I did it anyway. If I wasn't completely in love with this car before (and I was, obsessively) I'm hopeless now. Yeah, I know... lots of cars "go fast" but this is MY car!

))) When we bought the TT, on the test drive, the dealer said "damn you don't DRIVE like a girl!" LOL Hey, that's okay isn't it?

I just want to know how the h*ll to disable this speed limiter!

<sigh> Life is good.

I wish the same for every one of you.

Aug 16, 2001 | 05:06 AM

RTinNYC(again)

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Wow!!! I still haven't bested 130!!!

Aug 16, 2001 | 05:11 AM

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You go girl.....too bad it's not clear sailing from Milford to Greenwich, you could be to Greenwich

for lunch in 10 minutes at that rate....LOL....I love it. I did the same thing on the way to Vermont....did not hit the limiter, though...will have to try that on the way to Jason's birthday (oops, Labor Day) party.

Aug 16, 2001 | 05:17 AM

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i'm definitely going to come down there one day in the next few weeks for lunch if that's okay...

for you. I'll either call or email after my company leaves early next week and we can set something up.

Aug 16, 2001 | 05:17 AM

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That's what she said

Aug 16, 2001 | 05:18 AM

OTOF

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Deal, that's great....get out at Noon on Fridays during the summer....that would be a

great day, but then I know that sometimes weekend plans start early...LOL ;-) Any day is fine...

Aug 16, 2001 | 05:33 AM

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Huh, speaking of bears...just closed off a busy intersection because a bear is

sitting in the middle of the street (probably counting vehicles for traffic control) as they whiz by. I am not talking "cop" bear, a REAL bear!
Game & Fish officers enroute code 3.