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Originally Posted by Porsche tech

... I can remember waiting to hear the stories when they would return from a Cannonball run. He and Jim Atwell did that several times in either Chick's 911 or Atwell's. One of the cars had one of those old Blaupunct radios that had the attached microphone that could be used to record on a cassette tape. Chick returned one time with a cassette recording of Atwell getting stopped by the police having been stopped doing some outrageous speed! ... --Dave

I don't recall the name Jim Atwell, but he must be the guy Chick told me a story about. It may even have been about the same incident that was recorded on that cassette tape.

Chick explained that his co-driver was stopped for speeding and had to surrender his driver's license in exchange for a citation. That was to assure that he would return for the court date to get his license back. In the interim, the citation was to serve as a temporary license issued by that state.

Not long after that, but in another state, he was stopped again for speeding, and asked to show his license. He had to point out to the second officer that the document he handed over was not just a citation, but was also a temporary license issued by the other state.

Even after all these years, the image of that still makes me laugh. Chick seemed to enjoy telling those stories as much as everyone else enjoyed hearing them.