09-30-2015, 09:45 AM
Good:
-Driving a 1969 British Green Jaguar E-Type 4.2L 2+2 Coupe through Roanoke. Tooling around in that thing at a relaxed pace was honestly probably the high point of my driving career, and I bet I never exceeded 45mph in it. All of my track days/autocrosses and triple-digit antics can't match the warm and tingly feeling I got from puttering around in such a legendary classic car.
-Playing "Let's see how long we can linger at girlfriend's house and still make curfew" in high school. I shaved some serious time off the 45-minute Roanoke to Bedford drive.
-Ice Fishing in Ken's Ralliart doing figure-8s while slapping the rev limiter.
-Riding Kaan's FZR on the backroads around Hburg towards the end of my senior year. The prospect of graduating and having to find a job sent my already anxiety-riddled mind into a death spiral those couple of months. Being able to throw my leg over that bike and disappear for an hour when I had run out of jobs to apply to was one of the few things keeping me sane.
Bad:
-Almost dropping that FZR in the P-run Parking Lot
-Almost curbing the M3 entering P-run because entry speeds.
-Very nearly putting my roommate's A4 into a pole while Ice Fishing.
-Driving a 1969 British Green Jaguar E-Type 4.2L 2+2 Coupe through Roanoke. Tooling around in that thing at a relaxed pace was honestly probably the high point of my driving career, and I bet I never exceeded 45mph in it. All of my track days/autocrosses and triple-digit antics can't match the warm and tingly feeling I got from puttering around in such a legendary classic car.
-Playing "Let's see how long we can linger at girlfriend's house and still make curfew" in high school. I shaved some serious time off the 45-minute Roanoke to Bedford drive.
-Ice Fishing in Ken's Ralliart doing figure-8s while slapping the rev limiter.
-Riding Kaan's FZR on the backroads around Hburg towards the end of my senior year. The prospect of graduating and having to find a job sent my already anxiety-riddled mind into a death spiral those couple of months. Being able to throw my leg over that bike and disappear for an hour when I had run out of jobs to apply to was one of the few things keeping me sane.
Bad:
-Almost dropping that FZR in the P-run Parking Lot
-Almost curbing the M3 entering P-run because entry speeds.
-Very nearly putting my roommate's A4 into a pole while Ice Fishing.
Now: 07 Porsche Cayman S | 18 VW Tiguan
Then: 18 VW GTI Autobahn | 95 BMW M3 | 15 VW GTI SE | 12 Kia Optima SX | 2009 VW GTI | 00 BMW 540i Sport | 90 Mazda Miata | 94 Yamaha FZR600R | 1993 Suzuki GS500E | 2003 BMW 325i | 95 Saab 900S