One dark night 40mumble-some years ago I was rocketing along the freeway outside Bonneville Salt Flats......
Had a long way to go, it was after midnight, nearly zero traffic out there....I unwound the Mercedes sedan and was lumbering along at 110+.....long straight flat stretches are plentiful out that way....
I saw headlights in my rear view, and briefly wondered ?what?.....amazingly the lights closed quickly, I was vaguely concerned of what the speed limit fines might be....and the thing just whisked by faster than anything I've seen on the road.....it rapidly disappeared over the horizon headed West.....
Couldn't identify it from the shape, too dark/too fast/and too surprised.....
No way to tell how fast he was going, but it made my speed seem like mere idling along.
Ferocious horsepower now days to accelerate to 300 kph in 20 seconds...but the old machines knew how to get rolling too....
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