the weirdiest thing I have ever seen while riding.

[dadofthree]

It's 1994, a warm summer Sunday summer night about 1:30 am and clear skies. I'm riding from Victoria BC to Nanaimo BC having attended a dinner party at a friends home. Just as I entered a long two lane straight straight stretch, running about 90 mph, 20 minutes outside of Victoria, at the beginning of GoldStream provincial park, forests on both sides, I spotted a pair of headlights coming up real fast behind me. Damn, I though, a cop with radar, I rolled back to about 70mph, and prepared to myself to talk the ticket down.

Why hasn't he hit his lights I wondered? Then the car passed me like I was standing still, they were doing at least a 100 or so. It was, and I know because my father had the exact same model, a 1973 Ford four door LTD painted flat black. Well, isn't that cool! I though, a big ol' land yacht hauling ass being driving just like was made to.

Then, about three seconds later the second car passed me, going just as fast, a flat black 1973 four door Ford LTD. Holy crap?! Is that a coincidence? What are the odds?

Then a few seconds later the third car passed me, a flat black 1973 four door Ford LTD....

Thats no coincidence, they are traveling together.

Why? Secret government agents? but why 21 year old cars? Moonshine? And why so fast if you are trying to be clandestine? Flat black all three?

I doubted my own sanity, but I did see them.
It puzzled me for years, but I think I eventually came up with a reasonable explanation, although it's just circumstantial evidence.

What do you think?

cheers
ken

You got gapped by three LTDs

 

[Oz22]

I realize we have to buy a lot of things made in china nowadays , mainly because the west gave up manufacturing a lot of these products . But every $ u spend directly adds to a increasingly agressive regime , that one day , could even be a combatant to the Western powers.

Did you ever read about "Pig iron bob" Same thing as today but now China is the "friendly power"

On 15 November 1938, dockers at Port Kembla (near Wollongong), members of the Waterside Workers’ Federation (WWF) went on strike against war and imperialism, and in solidarity with the Chinese people.

These heroic strikers refused to load pig iron bound for military production in Japan onto the SS Dalfram. The military-backed regime in Japan had invaded China 1937, and the dockers at Port Kembla decided to take a stand in solidarity with the Chinese people.
The conservative government of the time tried to prosecute these workers. Spearheading these efforts was Robert Menzies, then the Attorney General, and later long-time conservative Prime Minister. Menzies threatened all manner of legal action against the striking workers. The strike was, Menzies claimed, “a provocative act against a friendly power”.

...But the strikers refused to back down. This was a matter of solidarity – a matter of principle.

For his opposition to the strike Menzies was labelled “Pig Iron Bob”. Menzies deployed a punitive anti-union law known officially as the Transport Workers Act, but known among the union movement as the “Dog Collar Act”. Linky