Recently they began showing and Alfa Romeo sports car commercial on TV. One of the things I mentioned that I miss because of MS is fantasizing about driving cool cars. This commercial has been kind of tough because it is such a sweet ride. In my younger days when of my friends Dave always had a new vehicle and they were usually on the sporty side. Whenever Dave pulled into a car dealer was always able to test drive pretty much whatever he wanted.
The time I remember the most is when we test drove a sports car convertible and had a V 12 engine. It was pretty exotic and I think it was either an Alfaa Romera or a Fiat 124. I don't remember well enough. I do remember that I got to drive it. Back in those days our school was near shaver Park and it was always empty during the day. It was very curvy and we would race our cars around the curves and time our efforts to compare. So we started at one end and Dave drove and he raced through the park. I got to drive on the way back and wanted to be his time. Before the park exit I was heading toward there is a gradual right turn. I remember going around this curve in third-year and the last I looked at the speedometer I was going 60 miles an hour and still accelerating. As I came around the curve it was a policeman pulling into the park.
I immediately slowed down and pulled over because he flashes lights at us. He came up and after he asked for my license he told me "I don't know how fast you are going so I can't take it you but I do know you're going pretty fast". He also said to slow it down. The worst part was that he followed us back to the dealer so I had to abide by the speed limit which in that sports car was pure torture. That car was made to fly.
This was about 40 years ago and my other friend Mark and a cool Mustang. Because of that he was able to test drive other Mustang power cars. I will post more on that later.
No comments:
Post a Comment