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Brad and his '51 from GarageShots Issue 3, Cowboy Trail. I wanna go fast! Feeding that need for speed I wanna go fast! Yeah don't we all? The trick is to remember there is a time and a place for speed, and man that's not always easy. A recent trip to Vegas had me swinging by Shelby world headquarters when we heard the sweet roar of V-8s from Las Vegas Motor Speedway. A hundred bucks later and I'm doing a ride at 165 mph, a foot off the wall on the track. I would have loved to stay and do the full deal package where I got into the driver seat, but the wife was left unattended at the outlets, and I couldn't afford that for too long. Easy answer, the Speedway is a go fast place. Last week I was picking my girls up from school and some rocket surgeon comes flying through the school zone at 50 km/h or better. I'm yelling out obscenities like Red Foxx on a bender. There are young children walking around who aren't traffic smart trying to cross the road. There's distracted parents pulling bonehead U-turns, trying to find convenient parking. And there's parked buses creating more blind spots than you can count. Easy answer, school zones are not the place to go fast. Then you get kind of grey zones, and I should probably preface this by saying in no way does GarageShots support, endorse, condone, or envy my personal speed vices. Open chunks of highway, late night abandoned freeways, that stretch of road that just temps you to hit it a little harder — all entice us to maybe cheat a little on the limits. What brings this up? I was recently grilled by my mother-in-law after picking up a new radar detector. "What do you need that for!?" she asked. I tried my best to explain that MOST of the time I do follow the posted limits, but there are times driving on the highway or even the freeway where you get stuck behind someone who feels the need to drive well under the limit, and now you are stuck in a cluster of moving roadblock. With each car that builds up behind you, the chances of having someone pull a bonehead move at the wrong time to get past all of this are high. Personally, I just don't feel safe in those situations. So the safest place is to move one lane over, put the hammer down, and get in front of the accident before it happens. But John Law doesn't always see it this way, and that's why I like my little reminder box that goes, "BEEP!!! Not now dummy." Is it cheating? Maybe. Am I doing it for the right reasons? Yup. Would I consider hammering it in a school zone, residential area or on a busy road? Never. It's not easy driving a beast that feels like a rolling show and shine. When the horsepower is on tap and every kid is giving you the international hand gesture for 'light 'em up!' it can be tough to show restraint. I guess the important thing is even though 'I wanna go fast,' there's a time and a place for it. Keep the streets safe. Give kids room to play. And let's all get home in one piece. Brad Fersovitch, GARAGE|SHOTS 7

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