Received an interesting book for Christmas, The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World

The author drove from New York to Los Angeles in 31 hours and 4 minutes, stopping only six times. In an old M5? Hmm....

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16298411

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

That sounds like a movies I saw a long time ago with Dom Deluise, Burt Reynolds, etc. . . . in it.

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OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Paging through the book, this guy looks hardcore. Complete with fake police uniforms, laser diffusers, jammers, scanners, CB's, cameras, babes, wow... lotsa' time on his hands.

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

My God! He'd get life in prison if he was stopped in Virginia with all of that stuff/ You can't even have a radar detector here.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Sounds stressful to me ... 30 some hours, there is no sleep involved.

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Yeah he runs in the Gumball 3000 every year, usualy wins. He is full of himself and a total ***. But he does know how to make time.

I forget what he drove this year, last year it was Bentley GT, and for two or three before that an M5. Always done up as police cars. He also seems to hire a driver.


The police thing is their Gumball theme, Team Polizei, they started it others copied it.


This is a good example of what they do, fun stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBaOg-qsN2M&feature=related

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I don't care if he's a dick or not, doesn't matter.

Interesting to read about "the race" behind the scenes. Much of it comes down to planning, logistics and some bs'ing, not just sick-fast cars.

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

Like most of anything else, I guess one needs a strategy, planning and good timing ... and then GO!! Haha, I know, that would be too easy...

Not a job for me, the driving part ... I like a nice stretch of open road, but to score a record ... That's for real men ...

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You got your Christmas literature ... by the time you're done with the book, you're a step closer toward spring ...

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I'm almost done! Power-read.

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

Oh! I know how that can go. When it grabs you, you won't let go ...
The last book I finished in record time (2 days) was Mario Puzo's "Omerta".
He moves very quickly in this one. Only 360 some pages. East Coast, West Coast, then somewhere in the middle ... and bam!

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