your a canniball. lol
99 rc 318 flame red
HemiDak@msn.com
>From: "John Bell" <jbell@vignette.com>
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>To: dakota-truck-moderator@twisted.twistedbits.net
>Subject: DML: "All in the family" spank (Ram vs. Dak QC)
>Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:17:14 -0600
>
>Hey all, thought I'd share this one with you...
>
>Coming into work today, I'm zipping along pretty fast (around 80 or so)
>since
>I'm late for work (when the baby is teething, you tend to stay up late at
>night
>zzzzzzzzzz). Anyway, I'm passing people left and right, then this 4x4 Ram
>2500 with the V10 badge and catback dual exhaust decides he's gonna catch
>up and pass me. That's fine... we get to an uphill, and he starts to edge
>ahead by about a front fender or so heading up (hence how I know it
>was a V10, the badge was right in my face). "Oh, a challenge" I think, so
>down goes my size 13 oaf foot into the Big Pedal - let's see how this
>turns out, I'm thinking.
>
>The mighty QC 360 downshifts, lets out a throaty growl, and at first I'm
>just
>staying with him. Then I creep up a little, then a little more, then his
>fender
>lead is gone and he is starting to get a little concerned ;-). I just keep
>it down,
>beat him to the top of the hill, and pull away. By then I'm coming up on
>the
>lovely combo of slow traffic and a notorious speed trap (over the hill
>traps
>in Austin, gotta love 'em), so I slow down. Ram Man cuts behind me and
>plows on by in the left lane, giving me the "you're number one" salute as
>he goes by, natch. Whatever :-).
>
>Anyway, those Rams with the V10 are damn quick, 4x4 or otherwise. I had
>to work hard for that one. I thought he'd out-torque me on the hill, but
>the
>QC
>seemed to not have trouble with that (3.92 gears probably helped there). Oh
>well,
>like the subject says, it's all in the family :-D.
>
>Have fun,
>--
>John Bell - '00 D2K QC 5.9 4x4 NV242 3.92LSD SLT+ *my baby*
>
>
>
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