[Freddie (Memphis)]

This is not just a Model A "caravan" problem...it happens anytime you get a large group of cars together and expect to stay together as you all go down the road. It just doesn't seem to work that way.

I've run several large caravans of Shelby Cobra replicas...cars that not only can accellerate 0-100 fast enough to rearrange your fillings...but most also have massive 4-wheel multi-piston disc brakes and can stop quick enough to cause your teeth to be snatched right out of your head! Drivers in the front of the caravan usually say they're going to "keep it sane"...and try to stay at 45-50 MPH...and they normally do. But, then the "ping-ponging" starts...spaces start to appear between cars in the middle of the pack...and everyone in the rear starts to speed up in an attempt to keep up with those in front. First thing you know, guys in the back of the pack at doing 100+ MPH just to keep up with those in front...who are still only going 45-50.

At those speeds...all someone has to do is become slightly inattentive...something along the side of the roadway catches their eye...something in the cockpit distracts them for a moment...and then all you hear is a simultaneous screech of tires as everyone tries to haul it back down. It's just the nature of a long colums of cars to behave like this. I've seen some nasty rear-enders in lines like this...usually resulting in more than bent and broken cars...but lifelong friendships shot-to-hell in less than a heartbeat. I've almost been run into several times...and almost run into others several more.

I certainly hope everyone's okay in this little melee... Cars can be fixed...and dogs can be fixed....people, not so much.

Take it light...