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Limited Usefulness of Supercars

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By Martin Swig

While streaking across Montana at 120 mph in my son’s Subaru Impreza, we discussed the advantages of having a much faster car. A few miles later, we crested a rise just as a Montana Highway Patrol car appeared from the opposite direction. The cop apparently had his radar off, because otherwise our Valentine One would have warned us. Taking no chances, we turned onto a farm road and disappeared before the cop had time to turn around and give chase. Fortunately, the Subaru is medium metallic gray – a very plain-Jane looking car. For fifteen minutes, we paralleled the main road on a farm road about five miles north, then rejoined the main road.

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Martin Swig
Martin Swig is a San Francisco-based vintage racer, car collector and founder of the California Mille vintage car rally. A graduate of Stanford University, Swig was a multi-franchise new car dealer in San Francisco for 40 years. In addition to founding the storied California Mille in the early '90s, Martin has been vintage racing a variety of mostly Italian marques for more than 30 years. The lifelong car collector drives an Audi S5, Audi S4 Avant and Mazda Miata on a daily basis, in addition to routinely exercising his collection of vintage Italians.
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