Me and my buddy jeremy, always used to cruise up to subway on this semi windy country road with fields on either side on our lunchbreaks in grade 12, me in the 69 GS (at the time it was running like a pig because the points were worn out and the stock wires shot so it missed at low rpm and pinged hard at 4100 rpm and wouldn't go past 4200.) I also had just gotten the car and didn't realize that it didn't have a kickdown cable. Jeremy was in his 74 olds omega, non posi 3.08 gears, freshly rebuilt olds 350 (totally stock rebuild, gaskets and rings and bearings, and a vintage holley street dominator single plane manny with a holley 750, as well as stock manifolds with true duals and vintage thrush glasspacks), his car also has the olds rally wheels and vinyl top, nice looking car.. But anyway we were fortunate enough to have the nicest two cars in school at the time, and I think this guy shane was jealous, he had an 05 or 06 ford focus complete with 5 speed and fart can, thought it was a lot faster than it was, he used to talk about our cars like they were old slow gas guzzling beaters. We come out of the school parking lot one day at WOT like usual with jeremy in front, we stopped our tires from spinning at mach 6 after leaving the parking lot, and cruised up to the aforementioned road to get lunch, we had noticed that when we left the parking lot shane had come up behind in his focus but couldn't keep up as we had the 4 barrels open, once we got onto the road we were just cruisin along at about 40 mph enjoying the nice day with all the windows rolled down and I hear this disgusting sound like a focus with rusted out exhaust winding up to atleast 6800 rpm and nailing the rev limiter slamming through the gears, he goes blowing by me at probably 60 mph, hit's a rabbit, fishtails and almost goes off the road, and then he's about to fly by jeremy when I hear jeremy pull er down into first gear with the glasspacks wailing as the stock smogger olds easily pulls even and past shane at 6400 rpm with the valves floating, damn those olds 350's can rev, he left shane for a couple seconds, hit valve float in first and then shifted and let the idiot go by. After this event, the trip all the student's make to subway for lunch everyday is known as the subway 500. And shane never talked about our 'beater' cars again. This kid is really an idiot though, people like him shouldn't be on the road, luckily there wasn't anybody on this road with us, or I know jeremy wouldn't have done anything, but unfortunately we know that shane doesn't really care, he's just as happy weaving through traffic as if it were a video game. -Ryan
Nice. I really don't get these guys with their atmo 4's who think they've got a chance with an 8 of any vintage. The sweet deep burble of even a small block should be enough for them to think "f*** this", and just piss off.
definately, especially fun when you've got stock manifolds and quiet flow mufflers, and tell them it's a straight 6, surprise!
Good story! reminds me of when I used to have rice boys messing with my caprice in high school. one time I was heading off to work down a long straight road with fields/woods alternating on both sides known around here as 44A but has changed name a few times when one of the kids from school passes me revving his nissan 240 or 280 or whatever out probably 8k. I dumped my car down into 2nd at 45 and floored it, passed him with that old chevy screaming high, hit drive, and pulled away so fast his head must have been spinning. Next day in school he avoided me... the day before he was bragging about his intake and exhaust he just put on... no lie :laugh: :Brow:
HAHAH SUBWAY 500! That's a good one. I had plenty of guys like that at my highschool. I didn't have money to have a fast car but I think the fastest thing besides all the souped up diesel trucks was probably a 15+ second Neon. Keep killing them and putting them in their place. They'll probably come back with NAWZ and try to race you again but they'll probably blow up before the finish line.
All the talk about kids at school with import cars makes me feel old. They didn't even make cars that were suppose to be fast when I was in school (well maybe the little z). Other than a porsche or a land rover that no one could afford, no one would have been caught dead in any import! A ford station wagon would have been cooler than anything from the orient.
