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Colorado, where I live, is probably one of the best places to have a performance car in the US, save maybe Montana or outstate Nevada (no speed limit still??)
Take a short jaunt west from Denver and you get into winding mountain roads and beautiful scenery...(of course on those roads you usually get stuck behind a rusty pickup full of chickens going 20 MPH...) Head east, north or south and you're on long straight highways across the flatlands...best of both worlds really.
The driving conditions here are usually very good. When people think of Colorado, they think of snow and skiing, but that is only up in the mountains. foothills and flatland CO has a semi-arid climate, and a little known fact is this state averages the most sunny days per year than any other state in the US, something like 300 days a year or so. So not too often are there wet roads to worry about. The only drawback is the altitude, but I think it's a fair trade off.
I've redlined my Viggen at night on I-25...the main north/south highway which comes up from New Mexico, curves around Denver, and then heads North up thru Cheyenne, Wyoming. 155 Mph +...I've got a nice radar/laser detector, but at those speeds, you don't really have enough time to slow down before 80-90 mph before you are by the cop.
I drive up I-25 to and from work every day as well...I usually hit about 120 MPH, traffic permitting. But at those speeds I am always sure to pay complete attention to my surroundings...during the day on the flat highways the marked cop cars are easy to spot well in advance...but they've got unmarked ones as well...I usually look for the extra lights in the rear window as I get close to any Chevy Caprice Classic/Camaro type vehicle. The main issue during the day is the bike cops...they are much harder to spot, which almost makes fast driving at night a better idea (the bike cops don't come out at night here), provided you have a good radar detector.
I have yet to get a ticket in my Viggen on the highway (knock on wood). In the last year since I got the car, I've only gotten one ticket, and that was for accelerating out of a housing development onto the main road at night right in front of a cop..I was clocked at 56 in a 35...(20+ mph over) but my record before was spotless to they dropped it down to a 44 in a 35...like a $30 fine. Big deal.
But all in all I've been very lucky...I drive like a nut. Put a Viggen convertable in the hands of a 26 y/o male who's young, dumb, and full of cum and what do you expect? Hopefully my luck will continue....
posted by 12.45.100...
, Thu, 6 Jun 2002 16:35:30
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