I don't know what this boy was thinking. I was cruising down the main drag last night, minding my own business. Some punk in a late model Celica with the typical riced out look came up beside me. I am trying to ignore this dude, but he is very persistant. So I slip her down into 2nd gear just to see what he does. Well, he takes off. I let him get about a car length on me and I nail it. The exhaust of my loud, powerful American V8 powered car almost blew him into the ditch! After I put a quick 4-5 car lengths on him I slowed down. He slows down also......but only for a few seconds. Well, here he comes again, so I goose the accelerator just enough to stay ahead of him. Then we slow down again....then here he comes again!! At this point I'm thinking this guy actually ENJOYS humiliation. Like I have said before, It's like teasing a poor stupid animal. I stay just ahead of him again for a few seconds, then I nail it hard and leave him behind, to the tune of about 10 car lengths. Now I'm bored with him and slow to get into the left turn lane. He slows down and shouts; "Oh well, you have twice the cylinders that I have" Me "You need to remember that the next time you want to race a car like this. Later dude." I swear I don't get kids today. When they hear the sound of 462 cubes through flow masters, and see my drag radials on the back, that should be enough to scare these ricer guys away. I guess they have watched The Fast and the Furious too many times! Hopefully another hard lesson was learned on the streets last night.:grin:
Amazing. "Oh well, you have twice the cylinders I have." I can't believe this duh actually said that? uzzled: What a moron. :error: It took 3 times to convince this amoeba he could not win? :grin: At that point I would start to consider him more like a hemmerhoid than an annoyance. :spank:
Its the kids, regardless of the car, thats the problem (My apologies to al the "Young" board member who KNOW better....and Drive a Buick - you obviously were better brought up) I was 2 cars behind some kids in a Too Loud, over wheeled 3rd gen, ratty lookin camaro the other day. They were having the time of their lives, T-Tops out, weaving between traffic going nowhere fast in Sunday morning traffic, stoplite to stoplite.....It might have even been a 305 for all I know, but I know it was way too loud and way too slow for all the noise it was making. When he turned into the double turning lanes of a major intersection and I saw I could be next to them on the inside track, I thought..."Hmmmm - Time for alittle skewlin'". Next to him at the light, I could hardly even hear my car idling.....and I think My car is to loud !! When the light turned, I had the shifter snugged down in 1st and since I had the inside track I was already out of the turn, pointing straight, going slow, waiting for them to complete the turn :Brow: As soon as I saw him in the rearview start to get close to my bumper, I "Unleashed the Hounds", Fishtailing while spinning wildly and shot about 15 cars ahead of them. They didn't even try, I emasculated them so badly :bglasses: At the next light, I gave them the real lesson. He pulled up and screamed over his racous motor "What the F*%K is in that THING Its Just a BUICK, Man.......Just a B U I C K Even though I dont think they were planning to, They decided to Exit, Stage Right, tails between their legs when the light changed They must have been a few grades ahead of your Celica guy....they at least knew when it was time to duck into the shadows
LOL! That was great! 3 grades ahead is probably all it was too. :laugh: Hey, we can all help to correct the ignorance which has permeated the streets and highways by educating our children right now of the power and respect the musclecar should have and deserves.
Hey Alan you can't be stealing his thread like that. That story deserves its own thread anyway. P.S. Your apology is excepted. :laugh:
Since I'm a new member I just read this thread and can relate to your story. In my neck of the woods the usual excuse is measured in Liters. i.e. " I've only got two liters" or "my car has more horsepower per liter than yours". These excuses usually follow after they pick on me and get humiliated soon after. My reply is the same to either excuse. "Too bad you don't have enough liters"
I know some guys here that are really into getting there cars dyno'd. They spend big $$$ on mods just to go to the dyno and see if there numbers go up. Then, on the other hand, I go to the track. The track is the true guage of speed. Number of liters......HP per liter.....rear wheel HP....crank HP....dyno numbers.....none of that crap matters. Line 'em up and rum 'em. that's the true test.
I hear ya on that one. I'm not ashaned to admit than I've been a late night "grudge" racer for a long time and the one thing I've noticed in my advancing career is that it's harder to impress me with even 1/4 mile times. I saw a guy the other day run a low 13 with an all motor Honda. Boy were his buddies impressed. "It's only a 4 cylinder" was all I kept hearing. "So what" is usually my reply. It's really just mathematics and physics at work. Power to weight ratio is the big game. If you really wanted to impress me with your 4 cylinder, put that baby in a 3900lb. car and if it runs low 13's then I'd be impressed. I'm almost to the point of just going out and smoking every ricer I can just to yell out the window "But mine weighs 2 tons".
