YO, TOM - Long live the 5.2 BOX DW 94 RC, 5.2, 89 SHELBY 5.2
Tom Slick North wrote:
>
> For those of you who dislike street racing, ignore this post...
>
> On the way home for Harry's Hot Rod Shop today, a zit-faced kid with
> scraggly hair driving a lowered Honda Civic decided that he was going to
> race me. It was equipped with the complete "Ricer" package: lowered to the
> ground, ground effects complete with wire mesh inserts, the largest wheels
> and lowest profile tires he could squeeze into the wheel wells, "Coffee Can"
> tipped "Fart" tube, Clear Lenses, and tinted windows.
>
> He gets beside me, and starts blipping the throttle to get me to race (we
> were doing around 60mph or so)... I at first refuse to play this game with
> him, but after him doing this for over 2 miles, I finally decided enough was
> enough. I told my friend Neil to hold on, I punched the OD button to off,
> slammed the gas, and proceeded to slowly pull away from the Civic. I wasn't
> pulling away very quickly until finally had to go into Overdrive, and
> surprisingly proceeded to lurch further away from him. I let off a little
> past 100mph, and proceeded to go back to the posted speed limit, and then he
> comes back up beside me, rolls down the window and says that we hit 160.
> 160? The guy must have been looking at KPH, not mph!!! This is still the
> United States, isn't it? Don't we go my MPH here???
>
> Well, he wants to go at it again, so again I did the same thing to him...
> and then a third time!!!
>
> When I finally get to my exit off the highway, he follows me... I make my
> turn onto a long straight stretch of road with a 40mph speed limit. He
> again has the audacity to get next to me, honks three times and we go at it
> again! I left him sitting there!!! got up to about 85mph, and let off....
> he decided to turn of the street the first chance he got!!!
>
> The whole thing had to suck for him, getting his ass handed to him by a
> dirty, boxy old Dodge Dakota!!!
>
> The moral of the story, there is no replacement for displacement!
>
> Later,
> Tom "Slick" North
> 96 Dodge Dakota 5.2L RC
> 71 Chevelle Malibu 350
> 71 Porsche 914/2.0L
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