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Early Saturday morning I took my Porsche 928 for a drive north up Interstate 15 from San Diego to Riverside. The road conditions where great as there were hardly any other vehicles on the road and the shark was performing beautifully. So I turned on some tunes & settled in for a relaxing hour & a half ride.
Anyway I was tooling along at about ~85 mph enjoying myself and was about a quarter of the way to my destination when I passed this guy in black VW Passat that started to pursue me. At first the guy tried to pull out & pass me on the right. As my car was hardly even breathing hard at this point I smiled & simply down shifted into fourth and rolled on to the accelerator and leaving the Passat standing still. After a bit I’d slow and allow him to catch up and again just as he’d try to noise pass – I’d repeat the same process again. This same scenario repeated it’s self about four more times before I tired and just ended it by rolling back on the accelerator again but this time I didn’t ease up until I couldn’t see the guy in my rearview mirror anymore.
Well about a mile or two down the road I reined in the Shark and continued my casual clip as before. But just as I crested a hill I noticed two Subaru WRX STI's driving in formation a couple lanes over. As I passed the one in the rear pulled out to pursue me like the V-Dub before.
My first thought was – “What The ....! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rolleyes.gif Do I have a sign on my butt that says chase me”?
The guy was coming up fast & hard on my left and started to pass – but having read up on the WRX, I fully expected him to make easy work of my 30 year old shark. But as the road was still open ahead - I decided I wasn’t going to make it easy for him and wouldn’t go down without a fight. This in mind in preparation I preemptively down shifted into forth as I did with the VW and was waiting for him. But this time there was no rolling into the accelerator – I punched it!
Well, as tempted as I am - I won’t say exactly how fast we where going – just in case big brother is checking up on us here in in the BCF. But I must’ve over estimated my opponent - A lot!. Because I was totally surprised that as hard as the Subaru tried he could never pass me. In fact he kept pace with me for a while, but *I* gradually started pulling away from him. So he eventually backed down and eased off - leaving the road to me. Truthfully I would’ve thought the STI should have been able to catch me with a reported top speed in excess of 150mph. Maybe I scared him? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
Oh well - five minutes after I last saw the Subaru I was at my destination. Almost 30 minutes ahead of schedule. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
Anyway I was tooling along at about ~85 mph enjoying myself and was about a quarter of the way to my destination when I passed this guy in black VW Passat that started to pursue me. At first the guy tried to pull out & pass me on the right. As my car was hardly even breathing hard at this point I smiled & simply down shifted into fourth and rolled on to the accelerator and leaving the Passat standing still. After a bit I’d slow and allow him to catch up and again just as he’d try to noise pass – I’d repeat the same process again. This same scenario repeated it’s self about four more times before I tired and just ended it by rolling back on the accelerator again but this time I didn’t ease up until I couldn’t see the guy in my rearview mirror anymore.
Well about a mile or two down the road I reined in the Shark and continued my casual clip as before. But just as I crested a hill I noticed two Subaru WRX STI's driving in formation a couple lanes over. As I passed the one in the rear pulled out to pursue me like the V-Dub before.
My first thought was – “What The ....! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rolleyes.gif Do I have a sign on my butt that says chase me”?
The guy was coming up fast & hard on my left and started to pass – but having read up on the WRX, I fully expected him to make easy work of my 30 year old shark. But as the road was still open ahead - I decided I wasn’t going to make it easy for him and wouldn’t go down without a fight. This in mind in preparation I preemptively down shifted into forth as I did with the VW and was waiting for him. But this time there was no rolling into the accelerator – I punched it!
Well, as tempted as I am - I won’t say exactly how fast we where going – just in case big brother is checking up on us here in in the BCF. But I must’ve over estimated my opponent - A lot!. Because I was totally surprised that as hard as the Subaru tried he could never pass me. In fact he kept pace with me for a while, but *I* gradually started pulling away from him. So he eventually backed down and eased off - leaving the road to me. Truthfully I would’ve thought the STI should have been able to catch me with a reported top speed in excess of 150mph. Maybe I scared him? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
Oh well - five minutes after I last saw the Subaru I was at my destination. Almost 30 minutes ahead of schedule. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
