Driving dawgs, appawlling really

[C M Smith <cmsmith@domain.elided>]

One of my most fun drives was in a rented Dodge Colt automatic up that two 
lane from Santa Cruz to Santa Clara (forgive my ignrunce as to exact 
location, I was on 'oliday at the time) following a Porsche 911 Targa. I 
could not keep up but it sure was fun trying.

On another occasion, same 'oliday, I was driving an old VW Rabbit, with a 
manual tranny this time, in 6 inches of wet snow with summer tires (albeit 
brand new Vredesteins, remember those???) up the pass from Sacramento to 
North Lake Tahoe (again abject 'pologies for lack of precision, my sister 
was navigating) at 70 mph in the "fast" lane full of snow while the 
California drivers were tailgating each other up the bare slow lane at 
about 30 mph flinching as this crazy Canuck blasted by. In our world the 
conditions were normal winter, except the snow was wet and actually moved 
out of the way as you drove through it. We're more used to floating on top 
of the snow.

Some of the best drives can be had in incompetent machinery, it depends 
upon your point of view.

Of course, none of these compares to my Calgary to Vancouver dash many 
years ago in my charcoal "grey" GTV6 in 9. 5 hours elapsed for1,200 km 
including all stops. The speed limit ranged from 80 km/hr to 100 km/hr. The 
arithmetically inclined will appreciate that it was impossible to do this 
without speeding. Experienced fast drivers among you will understand 
intuitively that to achieve that average speed I was topping out 
occasionally. 90% of the route was two lane twisties at that time....pure 
heaven in that car.

Oh, and the speling issue thread needs to die. No one I know uses correct 
speling on the Internet or in e mail. Standard speling originated only in 
the 19th century, and that was only for English English. It is polite to 
correct speling and useage if meaning is in doubt, otherwise one casts a 
pawl over free and easy communication...

I thought Scott Fisher's post was the funniest response in this vein, tough 
to top the light hearted wit of that post....
Michael Smith
Calgary, Alberta,Canada
91 Alfa 164L

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