Cop cars on Island

I became a trooper in 74 so as the new guy always got the 2 or 3 year old cars but all had 440. As a state agency we always specked out the cars so had sure grip, etc.

My favorite activity was setting at the top of the on ramp running VASCAR, a fancy name for a stop watch with a known distance marked on the shoulder, usually 0.1 miles so at the end you would have an average speed versus an absolute like radar. Was most fun to give the speeder a few seconds run and then nail the 440 through the gears, so much fun to speed legally. Oh yeah, they didn't stop for ****, brake fade and all. Couple times went right on by the violator, had to back up and pretend it was all planned.