hilts said:
and this the daddy of hot hatches
Mad Eyed Screamer said:I worked at a Ford main dealer, in the parts department aged 16-20.
When I passed my test they sent me out delivering in a tranny van (great skive!) but one day it was in the garage for a service and I had to drive my bosses company car - Ford Capri 2.8i
He was running it in..... told me to go no faster than 45.
I was on a duel carriageway and got 120 out of it, loved it at the time but as soon as I said to myself ''that's enough, slow down'', I actually crapped myself as i could see how quickly I was passing trees and light posts.... I dare not brake and simply took my foot off the pedal and slowed it down.
Got back and my boss asked how fast i went. Told him no more than 45 and he said ''the exhaust looks a little white inside''. I just gave him a nod and a wink.
simonk said:Mad Eyed Screamer said:I worked at a Ford main dealer, in the parts department aged 16-20.
When I passed my test they sent me out delivering in a tranny van (great skive!) but one day it was in the garage for a service and I had to drive my bosses company car - Ford Capri 2.8i
He was running it in..... told me to go no faster than 45.
I was on a duel carriageway and got 120 out of it, loved it at the time but as soon as I said to myself ''that's enough, slow down'', I actually crapped myself as i could see how quickly I was passing trees and light posts.... I dare not brake and simply took my foot off the pedal and slowed it down.
Got back and my boss asked how fast i went. Told him no more than 45 and he said ''the exhaust looks a little white inside''. I just gave him a nod and a wink.
Late 80's we hired a Sierra Sapphire 2.0iGLS or something. It came and was brand new and only had the delivery miles on the clock. They told us to take it easy for the first couple of hundred miles. As it was by far and away the fastest, newest, biggest car either of us had ever got near ( I was driving a Chevette at the time), you wont be surprised that we had it over a hundred on the M60 within 5 minutes of driving off the forecourt. What I had no concept of was the braking distance involved at that speed. A very quick and scary lesson learnt as we shot straight over a roundabout at the top of the slip road. Not big and not clever, but neither were we then.
simonk said:Mad Eyed Screamer said:I worked at a Ford main dealer, in the parts department aged 16-20.
When I passed my test they sent me out delivering in a tranny van (great skive!) but one day it was in the garage for a service and I had to drive my bosses company car - Ford Capri 2.8i
He was running it in..... told me to go no faster than 45.
I was on a duel carriageway and got 120 out of it, loved it at the time but as soon as I said to myself ''that's enough, slow down'', I actually crapped myself as i could see how quickly I was passing trees and light posts.... I dare not brake and simply took my foot off the pedal and slowed it down.
Got back and my boss asked how fast i went. Told him no more than 45 and he said ''the exhaust looks a little white inside''. I just gave him a nod and a wink.
Late 80's we hired a Sierra Sapphire 2.0iGLS or something. It came and was brand new and only had the delivery miles on the clock. They told us to take it easy for the first couple of hundred miles. As it was by far and away the fastest, newest, biggest car either of us had ever got near ( I was driving a Chevette at the time), you wont be surprised that we had it over a hundred on the M60 within 5 minutes of driving off the forecourt. What I had no concept of was the braking distance involved at that speed. A very quick and scary lesson learnt as we shot straight over a roundabout at the top of the slip road. Not big and not clever, but neither were we then.
