I posted this on another board so it may be a repeat to some, but it is a good story, so here goes, I was driving down a local 4 lane rural rd in my home town, when a 96ish White mustang GT came up behind me, this car was not stock, had street slicks, big cowl induction hood, pro comp tach with huge shift light mounted on top, and it sounded tough, this was my first real race since getting this car together, so I figured this would be a good gauge on how quick (or not) my car is, so as he passed me in the left lane (a car was in front of me) he pushed in the clutch, and reved it up, trying to scare me off, didnt work, I waited till traffic cleared and after he pulled into the right lane, I pulled out to the left, I got alongside of him, he looked at me and smiled, then he nailed it (doing around 20mph at the time) So did I, we were close at 2nd gear and he pulled away from me by maybe 1/4 of a fender, when he hit 3rd, I pulled even, when he shifted to 4th I heard a little "noise" from his car, and I pulled a little farther ahead, when he hit 5th, his car made some really bad sounds, knocking and backfiring, and a ton of smoke billowed out from behind his car, he quickly fell behind, and by the time I slowed down and turned around, he had turned down a sidestreet, and pulled into a driveway, (his?) I was going to stop but figured he wasnt in the best of moods. I have a friend who lives very close to him and said he heard him restart it later that night, and it sounded like it swallowed a valve. So it was a fun "first kill" ,,, well, maybe not for him. Ken F.
