[Mr 5 0]

I've had more street races than I can remember but I just don't bother anymore. Too few interesting challenges, for one. With a near-stock, low-14-second Mustang 5.0, ricers are a bore to 'race' and the real muscle cars all run well down in the 13's and can blow me off at will. Even so, I might still be game for a race now and then but it's the Cop Factor that really killed my interest in street racing. That, along with the danger of going insane speeds on a public highway where anything could happen and if it did, I would either be totally culpable - or dead - or probably both. Even if I never had an accident while street racing, a cop could nail me at any time, as happened to me some years ago.

I had a big fat ticket for speeding and another for reckless driving. Worse yet, my car was towed and impounded. So, I paid big bucks to get my car out of the impound plus the tow fee. In court I bargained away the reckless driving charge to a lane-change infraction and paid a big speeding fine. No fun at all. That cooled me off for quite awhile but eventually temptation reared her head and I was racing again, although far less frequently.

I got away with it but was always scared to death of seeing those red and blue roof lights in my rear-view mirror every time I raced. That tended to spoil the momentary fun of racing and of course the Fear Factor of someone pulling in front of me while I'm doing 100 mph or better never quite left, either. Eventually, as races got scarce and I matured a bit more I just lost the desire to race every jerk who revs at me at a light, which isn't all that often, anyway. I don't even acknowledge ricers and, as I noted, the Big Boys in the Mustang Cobras and hot Camaros are way out of my et league and I won't humiliate myself by attempting to race what I can never beat. So, for me, street racing is pretty much a thing of the past.

I'm sorry you were ticketed Crazy Horse and I hope you might be able to plead it down a bit. In any case, once this happens and you've been street racing for years, anyway, as we have, it's usually a good sign that it's time to call it off. Just enjoy the 'Stang and save the racing for the track, if you really need to race at all.