Once a year, to the delight of speed demons from around the country, a stretch of normally deserted highway becomes a Texas version of the autobahn—a road with no speed limit.
And better yet, the traffic cops allow it. They’ve been known to encourage the speeders who sometimes top 160 mph.
“It’s like grown-up summer camp,†said Lester Pittenger, a 55-year-old retired social worker from Somerville, N.J.
Pittenger drove his white 2001 Corvette 1,965 miles to West Texas to take part in this weekend’s Big Bend Open Road Race, one of only a handful of opportunities for people with fast cars to go real fast—legally—on a regular highway… Details
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