BallisticV6
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- Apr 1, 2002
Last year a new family moves into my neighborhood. All I notice about the new people is that the young kids drive riced out imports. I kind of find it annoying when they rev. up their fart cans when they pass my house at 2am.. But I figure they are young kids and I also made noise when I was young in my 69 camaro..
One weekend I was washing my T-type and the import kid noticed the racing numbers on my windows, so he pulled over and started up a conversation about where the drag strip is in this area. Then the kid starts talking about my car... "Do you race this car? and why an old family car?" Let me remind you readers that my T-type has a flat hood and the wire hub cap wheels off a basic regal. I went for this look to help keep my car from being stolen when parked in the Bronx where I work. I must admit the chrome bumpers, hood ornament and wheels makes the car look alot less intimidating than the GN. So I tell the kid my car runs 15.9 Ets. (11.60s in reality) Now the kid confidently tells me that his civic will eat my car for dinner. "What an A-hole! I hate cocky people!"..... So I ask if he wants to take a run at my car. He confidently says hell yea....and tells me that he will give me a 2 car lead and the start....Well he lost that race by 20 or so cars. We get back to my driveway and I tell the poor kid that there must be something wrong with your car and he agrees with a real disappointed look on his face...Then he tells me to run against his brothers import car which is faster.. I get the same handicap and win by a mile... Are these kids that dumb? Boy were these kids pissed off... I even opened my hood and all they could pick out was that it was a 6 cylinder and didn't even recognize the turbo..(dumb dumb dumb!!) I tell them both to get your cars check out because you both lost to a 15.9 family car..They go home real disappointed. A couple weeks later the kid pulls into my drive way with a new gsx-r 1000 motorcycle and asks me if I want to run against his bike.....I say sure why not, even if I know I will lose..We line up even this time, and on the start I get a 4 car lead because the bike wheelies.. and at about the 1000' mark he passes me like I threw my car into reverse...Back at my drive way he starts talking all kinds of smack about how fast his bike is to my friends and his friends.... at first I didn't mind but after a while I had enough, well more like my wife had enough .....My wife proceded to tell me why don't you take "mad max" out from the shed.... you gotta love my wife..... So I call the cocky little punk over to my shed and show him my Yamaha V-Max and ask him if he wants a piece of this ... And with a cocky attitude again!! the punk says "my gixer 1000 will eat that v-twin cruiser for lunch...yea I'll race ya!!!"
Well we race and the punk lost big time .... couldnt even see his headlights.
Back on my drive way I tell the kid "I hope you have a warrenty on that bike because you just lost to a 80's v-twin cruiser(its really a v-4 but the kid dosent know)" the crowd agreed and laughed ..... All Pissed off, he gets back on his bike and drives home.....
Then my wife says "Did that kid know "Mad Max" does 8.90s ?" and I reply "No not really" .........Wife then says "Boy you could be real mean sometimes he he he...."
Are the new street racers of today that dumb about old school vehicles??????? hummmmmm?
87 T-type 11.61 et best
85 Yamaha V-Max 8.92 et best.
One weekend I was washing my T-type and the import kid noticed the racing numbers on my windows, so he pulled over and started up a conversation about where the drag strip is in this area. Then the kid starts talking about my car... "Do you race this car? and why an old family car?" Let me remind you readers that my T-type has a flat hood and the wire hub cap wheels off a basic regal. I went for this look to help keep my car from being stolen when parked in the Bronx where I work. I must admit the chrome bumpers, hood ornament and wheels makes the car look alot less intimidating than the GN. So I tell the kid my car runs 15.9 Ets. (11.60s in reality) Now the kid confidently tells me that his civic will eat my car for dinner. "What an A-hole! I hate cocky people!"..... So I ask if he wants to take a run at my car. He confidently says hell yea....and tells me that he will give me a 2 car lead and the start....Well he lost that race by 20 or so cars. We get back to my driveway and I tell the poor kid that there must be something wrong with your car and he agrees with a real disappointed look on his face...Then he tells me to run against his brothers import car which is faster.. I get the same handicap and win by a mile... Are these kids that dumb? Boy were these kids pissed off... I even opened my hood and all they could pick out was that it was a 6 cylinder and didn't even recognize the turbo..(dumb dumb dumb!!) I tell them both to get your cars check out because you both lost to a 15.9 family car..They go home real disappointed. A couple weeks later the kid pulls into my drive way with a new gsx-r 1000 motorcycle and asks me if I want to run against his bike.....I say sure why not, even if I know I will lose..We line up even this time, and on the start I get a 4 car lead because the bike wheelies.. and at about the 1000' mark he passes me like I threw my car into reverse...Back at my drive way he starts talking all kinds of smack about how fast his bike is to my friends and his friends.... at first I didn't mind but after a while I had enough, well more like my wife had enough .....My wife proceded to tell me why don't you take "mad max" out from the shed.... you gotta love my wife..... So I call the cocky little punk over to my shed and show him my Yamaha V-Max and ask him if he wants a piece of this ... And with a cocky attitude again!! the punk says "my gixer 1000 will eat that v-twin cruiser for lunch...yea I'll race ya!!!"
Well we race and the punk lost big time .... couldnt even see his headlights.
Back on my drive way I tell the kid "I hope you have a warrenty on that bike because you just lost to a 80's v-twin cruiser(its really a v-4 but the kid dosent know)" the crowd agreed and laughed ..... All Pissed off, he gets back on his bike and drives home.....
Then my wife says "Did that kid know "Mad Max" does 8.90s ?" and I reply "No not really" .........Wife then says "Boy you could be real mean sometimes he he he...."
Are the new street racers of today that dumb about old school vehicles??????? hummmmmm?
87 T-type 11.61 et best
85 Yamaha V-Max 8.92 et best.
