Grand National is insane
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Well yesterday was the day my family does tomato sauce. Long story short its an italian tradition cuz we cant stand that RAGU **** and so we just go pick a ton of tomatoes and then make homemade sauce out of it. anyway, my soon to be uncle comes to help out, and he has a grand national. Now this car is pretty to me, and i knew he had it worked a little bit, so we were talking cars for a while about it. Well it turns out he has it worked so that it runs 10.5 1/4 on street tires, and its street legal. I was like that is insane. So we finish the sauce and he goes hey u wanna go for a ride? im like hell yea!
so we go out to get in and He goes "let me start it for you and you can drive" im like oh ok. Well as it turns out we are cruising around talking about the car, he says the turbo can produce up to 30 pounds of boost and right at the time he had it set to 17 pounds. Im just running around my town shredding the tires. when lo and behold, on a 3 lane road with signals, when i took the middle lane, 2 cars come on either side of me.
I look each way and an 03 cobra is on one side with some punk with his hat sideways... and on the other ...an 05 vette. i guess they were flirting with each other before they got to me, but they come up and start revvin it up. So i look at my soon to be uncle with a sort of "would you mind..." look and he just goes "smoke these chumps" The light turns green and i went easy on the throttle till bout 40 and then thumped it, and put those cars in the dust. it seemed instantaneous that the stock speedo was pinned at 85 as im still planted in my seat. We come to the next light and those guys are yelling at me about how they wanna go again...i oblige...same result..the car just flies.i decided to return home after that run.
i have driven my share of speedy cars but this was by far the scariest thing i have sat behind the wheel of. when we finished and got home he showed me the video of his car running that 10.5 sec 1/4 at 128 mph! it was insane. then he showed me a video of him on slicks, whole front end up in the air, chassis twisting and begging for forgiveness. needless to say, i want that car...
cliffs: grand national puts a whoopin on a vette and a blown mustang cobra, and makes me wet myself because of the sheer power of the gas pedal.
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Well yesterday was the day my family does tomato sauce. Long story short its an italian tradition cuz we cant stand that RAGU **** and so we just go pick a ton of tomatoes and then make homemade sauce out of it. anyway, my soon to be uncle comes to help out, and he has a grand national. Now this car is pretty to me, and i knew he had it worked a little bit, so we were talking cars for a while about it. Well it turns out he has it worked so that it runs 10.5 1/4 on street tires, and its street legal. I was like that is insane. So we finish the sauce and he goes hey u wanna go for a ride? im like hell yea!
so we go out to get in and He goes "let me start it for you and you can drive" im like oh ok. Well as it turns out we are cruising around talking about the car, he says the turbo can produce up to 30 pounds of boost and right at the time he had it set to 17 pounds. Im just running around my town shredding the tires. when lo and behold, on a 3 lane road with signals, when i took the middle lane, 2 cars come on either side of me.
I look each way and an 03 cobra is on one side with some punk with his hat sideways... and on the other ...an 05 vette. i guess they were flirting with each other before they got to me, but they come up and start revvin it up. So i look at my soon to be uncle with a sort of "would you mind..." look and he just goes "smoke these chumps" The light turns green and i went easy on the throttle till bout 40 and then thumped it, and put those cars in the dust. it seemed instantaneous that the stock speedo was pinned at 85 as im still planted in my seat. We come to the next light and those guys are yelling at me about how they wanna go again...i oblige...same result..the car just flies.i decided to return home after that run.
i have driven my share of speedy cars but this was by far the scariest thing i have sat behind the wheel of. when we finished and got home he showed me the video of his car running that 10.5 sec 1/4 at 128 mph! it was insane. then he showed me a video of him on slicks, whole front end up in the air, chassis twisting and begging for forgiveness. needless to say, i want that car...
cliffs: grand national puts a whoopin on a vette and a blown mustang cobra, and makes me wet myself because of the sheer power of the gas pedal.
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Is this how rumors get started?
