Well, a friend of mine was in town for the holiday's and he's got a damn rich friend in Tuscaloosa that has way to many nice cars: Diablo, Viper GTS, C5 Vette, and a Mercedes. He happens to get to drive all of them and had the Viper with him while he's home for the holidays, lucky bastard if you ask me.
Well we're all headed to the movies and I happen to be in my car with him in the Viper and what do you know but we get stopped at a red light
I'm not sure if he's game but I give him a couple of revs to let him know my intentions. Cross lights go yellow I hit the stutter box, not knowing the last time I set it it happens to be at 5500, WAY to high for the streets and the weather (maybe 35 degrees out). I slip the clutch to try to keep from spinning but to no avail so I just dump it and let 'em spin up to 7200 in 1st. This nets me 2-3 cars on him out of the hole. I shift to 2nd and I guess it was spinning a bit more than I thought cause the rpms dropped lower than normal but I stay on it. I wind out 2nd and go into 3rd. I hit 80 in 3rd and he's still about 2-3 cars back and not gaining any from what I can tell in my rear view so I tap the breaks to let him know it's over as we were in a 50mph zone.
Then I try to get him to line up from a roll knowing that with the traction problems I was having in 1st and 2nd he had to be having an even worse time hooking up. So we're cruising about 60mph with me sitting in 3rd waiting to go. Nothin's going so I jump it once and let off about 1-2 carlengths in front of him. I slow back to 55-ish to let him catch up and he punches it from behind. By the time I realize he's going he's at my door doing at least 15mph faster than I was going. I drop the hammer in 3rd just to see what happens. He puts about 2 carlengths on me before I run out the top of 3rd and he's not pulling much anymore. I'm about to go to 4th and I see him tap the breaks, then he gives me the flashers like that was a fair race. Oh well, he doesn't leave town till Thursday so I'm gonna see what I can do about getting another, more fair race.
I'm thinking a 40-120 dash should be interesting. I'd also like to go from a stop and see how long it takes him to catch me, or if he can before I hit 150mph But that's kind of fast so we probably won't be doing that.
Hope ya'll enjoyed the story. Later,
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Jerry
92 Plymouth Laser RS AWD
[Edited by LaserAWD on 12-26-2000 at 02:45 AM]
Well we're all headed to the movies and I happen to be in my car with him in the Viper and what do you know but we get stopped at a red light
I'm not sure if he's game but I give him a couple of revs to let him know my intentions. Cross lights go yellow I hit the stutter box, not knowing the last time I set it it happens to be at 5500, WAY to high for the streets and the weather (maybe 35 degrees out). I slip the clutch to try to keep from spinning but to no avail so I just dump it and let 'em spin up to 7200 in 1st. This nets me 2-3 cars on him out of the hole. I shift to 2nd and I guess it was spinning a bit more than I thought cause the rpms dropped lower than normal but I stay on it. I wind out 2nd and go into 3rd. I hit 80 in 3rd and he's still about 2-3 cars back and not gaining any from what I can tell in my rear view so I tap the breaks to let him know it's over as we were in a 50mph zone.Then I try to get him to line up from a roll knowing that with the traction problems I was having in 1st and 2nd he had to be having an even worse time hooking up. So we're cruising about 60mph with me sitting in 3rd waiting to go. Nothin's going so I jump it once and let off about 1-2 carlengths in front of him. I slow back to 55-ish to let him catch up and he punches it from behind. By the time I realize he's going he's at my door doing at least 15mph faster than I was going. I drop the hammer in 3rd just to see what happens. He puts about 2 carlengths on me before I run out the top of 3rd and he's not pulling much anymore. I'm about to go to 4th and I see him tap the breaks, then he gives me the flashers like that was a fair race. Oh well, he doesn't leave town till Thursday so I'm gonna see what I can do about getting another, more fair race.
I'm thinking a 40-120 dash should be interesting. I'd also like to go from a stop and see how long it takes him to catch me, or if he can before I hit 150mph
But that's kind of fast so we probably won't be doing that.Hope ya'll enjoyed the story. Later,
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Jerry
92 Plymouth Laser RS AWD
[Edited by LaserAWD on 12-26-2000 at 02:45 AM]
