Amen, brother DW!!!
Later!
Tom "Slick" North
96 Dodge Dakota 5.2L RC
71 Chevelle Malibu 350
71 Porsche 914/2.0L
----- Original Message -----
From: "dwmagnum" <dwmagnum@mountaincable.net>
To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 1:26 AM
Subject: Re: DML: Dakota:4, Ricer: 0
>
> 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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