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was supposed to be rainy but cleared up. after church and driving Daughter back to school and checking in on SWMBO at a retreat she was attending and having a snooze, decided to stretch Ms. Triss' legs a little. went for a lovely evening drive, nowhere in particular. Coming back I'm driving through town and a guy passes me in his hot little neon. Watch him weaving through traffic. turn the corner at catch up with him at a streetlight. Light turns green, road wide open and empty and this guy stomps on it. Now I ask you, was that necessary? He likely has more power in his stereo amp than I have under the hood, but I think driving needs to be a little more civilized and besides I think he was compensating - and I got more looks.

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I hear you JP.

Over the past few days I've seen these two guys tooling around in an AC Cobra.
Today at the store I thought I saw them driving around the parking lot sneaking a peak at my Sprite.

Heh, like "hey look at the cute little 40 hp British car"

Whatever. :wink:
 
But we can beat em all in a parking lot.

And when we have a road side prob like I had yesterday I had at least 20 folks stop and ask if I needed help. And let me tell you they were not all ugly old guys.
 
BTW Jack - happy Birthday!
 
Ditto! Ditto!
 
JPSmit said:
was supposed to be rainy but cleared up. after church and driving Daughter back to school and checking in on SWMBO at a retreat she was attending and having a snooze, decided to stretch Ms. Triss' legs a little. went for a lovely evening drive, nowhere in particular. Coming back I'm driving through town and a guy passes me in his hot little neon. Watch him weaving through traffic. turn the corner at catch up with him at a streetlight. Light turns green, road wide open and empty and this guy stomps on it. Now I ask you, was that necessary? He likely has more power in his stereo amp than I have under the hood, but I think driving needs to be a little more civilized and besides I think he was compensating - and I got more looks.

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Had that happen recently at a stop light. Two kids in a rice burner pull up, look over, start gunning the engine. I burst out laughing and told 'em I had 1/3 the horsepower so get real. They laughed and quit messing around.
 
jlaird said:
But we can beat em all in a parking lot.

And when we have a road side prob like I had yesterday I had at least 20 folks stop and ask if I needed help. And let me tell you they were not all ugly old guys.
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That's for sure. The Sprite is ten times the girl magnet that my flashy red BMW convertible is. It's the only car I've ever had in which a young woman walking down the sidewalk has spontaneously jumped over the door, sat down in the passenger seat and asked to be taken for a ride (mind you I was a bit younger then). Though that hasn't happened recently I get a lot more looks from the young ladies when I'm sitting at a stop sign than I ever do in the Bimmer.
 
CraigZ said:
Had that happen recently at a stop light. Two kids in a rice burner pull up, look over, start gunning the engine. I burst out laughing and told 'em I had 1/3 the horsepower so get real. They laughed and quit messing around.
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You need to watch this , then start luring those guys into a twisty stretch.

I concur on the chick magnet thing. I think a cute car trumps a mid-life-crisis-compensation-mobile easily. I often park next to the Corvette snobs at the cruise ins. I love it. I get more "action" then they do and my car is half the size, 1/8 the HP and 1/10 the price and I have 150% of the fun.
 
jvandyke said:
CraigZ said:
Had that happen recently at a stop light. Two kids in a rice burner pull up, look over, start gunning the engine. I burst out laughing and told 'em I had 1/3 the horsepower so get real. They laughed and quit messing around.
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You need to watch this , then start luring those guys into a twisty stretch.
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I saw that episode and laughed myself silly.

Here in the Raleigh area we have an on ramp that's a nasty decreasing radius turn, downhill. Three kids in a BMW were harassing me thru the twisties that lead down to this ramp. Traffic was a bit thick so they couldn't get a clear shot around me but were able to stay behind me. I went over the overpass to that ramp in third gear with them hot on my tail...as the curve tightened I dropped into second gear and nailed the gas...with the cheapo flea market tires I had on that car the back end stepped right out...feathered the throttle thru the tightest part of the curve, unwinding the wheel so that I shot straight out of the curve as I pulled third gear. A glance in the mirror revealed the driver's side of the BMW as the kid completely spun the car out. I chuckled to myself and left 'em behind. It's hard to hang with a Midget!
 
Spectacular! Wish I could drive like that! I'll get there.
 
This has been related before but: Back-when, we would drive from Hampton, VA to Pottstown/Perkiomen, PA often. There was a section of PA RT-100 where I goaded a GTO into a graveyard for trying to keep up with the Elan. Th' GTO ended up reefed on a headstone.

I feel some remorse now... :smirk:
 
Sometimes when I'm driving my midget, I race people .. and they don't even know it. :wink:
 
:lol::lol::lol:AAAAHHHH HA HAHA!!! YES!:lol::lol::lol:
 
Alota people think these things are fast. I often get asked "how fast does it go?".

I have a standing challenge to race any V8 powered hot rod for titles.

The course is 35 miles long, we each get a gallon of gas and the first one who gets there wins.

I haven't had any takers yet though.

Try that at your next multi make car show. It's funny to see them bow up at first, then they figure it out.
 
DrEntropy said:
This has been related before but: Back-when, we would drive from Hampton, VA to Pottstown/Perkiomen, PA often. There was a section of PA RT-100 where I goaded a GTO into a graveyard for trying to keep up with the Elan. Th' GTO ended up reefed on a headstone.

I feel some remorse now... :smirk:
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AND THE COPS PUT IT DOWN AS A SINGLE CAR ACCIDENT.....
 
BTW what i didn't mention was that while driving home, I was stopped at a light and a guy on an electric scooter was beside me - knew what the car was. embarrassing part was that because of the lights, he kept catching up with me. his top speed maybe 20 mph. ah well, at least I roared away from those lights and we did have a nice chat
 
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