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I am licensed to practice medicine in the State of Arkansas as a Physician and Surgeon, currently in General Practice (formerly a resident in Neurosurgery). Before I started undergraduate school to become a doctor, I was a Radio Electronics Officer in the U.S. Merchant Marine. My undergraduate degree (Gig 'Um, Aggies!) is from Texas A&M University in Business Analysis. I have always tinkered with cars, since I bought my first one, a 1972 Triumph GT6. Since then, I owned a ‘72 Caddy Coupe deVille (472 CI, talk about torque...), ‘72 Audi 100, ‘75 Triumph Spitfire, ‘74 Lotus Europa Special, ‘71 Ford truck, ‘67 Chevy truck, ‘47 Plymouth business coupe, '75 Ford Elite, ‘73 Mercedes 220D (with ‘71 parts car), ‘73 Triumph Boneville, ‘79 Harley FLH, ‘75 Harley XLH, '87 Toyota MR2, and the current fleet: ‘97 Toyota Camry, ‘86 Toyota Truck (276K miles), ‘86 Harley FLHT, ‘87 Harley XLH (my wife’s bike), '89 Esprit Turbo. So, you can see that I have had lots of experience working on cars. Lots of time under English dashboards, that is for sure. I also did total rebuilds on the Europa motor and the Mercedes Diesel motor, and the 20 valve swap on the MR2. I sort of went from an amateur auto mechanic to God’s mechanic professionally.
OK, I'm not proud of this, but I do have a patent. No flames, please. It is amazing what one will do for money. Hey, I was only making $4 an hour making life and death decisions, and I had to do something for car parts...
Please note: Any ticket you might get won't be from the above patent. Far as I know, no one has set this one up. Just an interesting exercise. And if you do get a ticket, hire a lawyer. It will wind up costing you less in both the long and short run. There are lawyers that specialize in traffic tickets and will take care of your problems for you. See, cities set up their speed traps (and I used to live in a big one) to make money. Lawyers feed on this, and personally, I would rather give my money to anyone, even (gasp) a lawyer before I will ever give my money to a city for setting up a speed trap with my tax dollars so they can rob me at gun point instead of finding the kids who broke my hood ornament on the Merc, or destroyed our trailer on our land. |
