Sounds great.
Another anecdote from that first trip to the US (1973). When leaving NYC a few days after arriving in the US I collected a car from Avis -- unfortunately I don't remember the model, but I do remember that it had
300-and-something cubic inches (over 5 litres), an astonishingly high displacement for a poor student and the car was LARGE by my standards. And I had reserved what I had thought was a small car... :-)) It just took me about three hours of driving (in the dark; it was evening when we headed north-east) to work out that I had to shift in D for normal driving... :-)))Negative thing: a week later I had an opportunity to put my foor down (on a Pennsylvania highway) and reached 92 mph. Man, did that car shake, rattle and jump about, and it ran out of puff. I couldn't believe it as my parents' humble smaller-engined and smaller car in Europe held the road much better and could go faster. Still, I figured that the car was made to go at more sedate speeds, but with an engine that ran VERY quietly and easily, and supported all mod cons.
The PA police clocked me at that speed (65 mph zone) and I duly paid a fine into the coffers of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.. :-(.
The policeman had evidently never seen a foreign (maybe other than maybe Canadian) licence before and in those days the British documents had no photos on them. He was very puzzled by what I showed him; he really wasn't sure of what to make of it and had to consult; at first he thought it wasn't real... :-)
I did wonder if I fled the country without paying I would never ever be let in again. At the very least I would get into Avis's bad books and never be able to rent from them again ;-)
Oh, those were the days...
DAS
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