KaBlookie
10-01-2003, 09:14 PM
Same as title! Let's hear about some stories you guys may have about you whooping someone on the road, or being whooped, or whatever! Just some entertaining stories 8)
here's a few I have:
--> There's this parking lot, next to this theater I go to a lot, that's like always empty at night past like 11 or so, and it's a good 9-10 carlengths wide and about 1/6th or 1/7th of a mile long. Okay so this one time, after seeing a movie, my brother, me, and one of his friends decided to have some races there! My brother was (at the time, like 3 years ago) driving my mom's 1997 Ford Escort, and he was to race against his friend's 1973 Volvo 164 (which is in AMAZING condition). They raced twice, the Escort won once, and the Volvo won the other time, but both times it was real close. So I decided to whip out my r/c truck (see sig and avatar), and race both of em...whooped them both times...like it wasnt even funny. Until my truck (let's call it the NMT from now on) hit it's top speed of about 46-47mph, it was a good 1.5-2 carlengths ahead of either of the other cars. And this was with my full off-road setup for the NMT (soft springs with loose oil, and huge, soft tires (the ones in the left pic of my sig), which means low acceleration, good top-end) Hah it was awesome.
-->This other time, when my bro and I were just hanging out at that same theater parking lot during the day (cause I wanted to test out my new on-road setup for my NMT), and I was drivin it around, tuning the engine, etc etc. Now this is my full on-road setup, with low-profile tires (middle pic of avatar), springs easily twice as stiff as the off-road ones, and shock oil almost twice as thick (70wt, vs 40wt), so I get massive acceleration but not-so-good top-end (about 39-40mph). This beautiful white new CLK55 AMG starts coming towards me (as it got closer, I noticed a 60-some man with his wife in it), so I line up my truck next to where it's gonna be, then when it got beside me, I hammered it. Noticing that he was being raced, the guy in the CLK HAMMERED it (engine roaring, tires screaming and all) and, again, I whooped it until my truck hit top speed :roll:
--> One time when I was staying ay my friend's house down at the New Jersey shore for Thanksgiving 2 years ago, I brought my truck along (in full on-road guise) so I could drive it around there. So it's about 10:00 at night, and I'm terrorizing this main street right near the house with my NMT. The traffic was sparse, as it was thanksgiving night, but every car that went by, I raced... Needless to say, I only got one or two brief races, but they were nothing. This one time though, there was this mid-90's Mercedes C-class, black with tinted windows, who I raced, but I ended up backing off a bit, just to get behind him cause i didnt wanna run into the curb. But I was behind him for like a second then the guy slams on the brakes and I almost ran into him! I almost had a heart attack cause I almost rammed the car (fortunately I was able to stop in time). Hah it was fun though.
--> Lol now for some rear car-car races :lol: Aiight, my bro and I did a lot of driving in my dad's old car (which he replaced with a 3.2TL) which was a 1995 Lincoln Continental with a 4.6-liter V8 that put out 260 hp and 260 lb-ft of torque (...stock). Interestingly, we were able to get quite a few people to race us, but none were crazy cars. We beat: ford probe (or as my bro and I call it, the anal-probe), three or four riced out civics, an old-ish Mazda 626, and some other random cars from time to time. It was fun though, beating those rice bombs with an old, sloppy, american luxury boat.
My bro and I are likely gonna buy ourselves a mid-90s Lexus SC300, and needless to say we're gonna be doin quite a bit of racing with it :lol: so even though that's a long way away, I'll keep you guys posted!
lol hope you liked the stories! and let's hear some of yours!!
Peace
Brian
here's a few I have:
--> There's this parking lot, next to this theater I go to a lot, that's like always empty at night past like 11 or so, and it's a good 9-10 carlengths wide and about 1/6th or 1/7th of a mile long. Okay so this one time, after seeing a movie, my brother, me, and one of his friends decided to have some races there! My brother was (at the time, like 3 years ago) driving my mom's 1997 Ford Escort, and he was to race against his friend's 1973 Volvo 164 (which is in AMAZING condition). They raced twice, the Escort won once, and the Volvo won the other time, but both times it was real close. So I decided to whip out my r/c truck (see sig and avatar), and race both of em...whooped them both times...like it wasnt even funny. Until my truck (let's call it the NMT from now on) hit it's top speed of about 46-47mph, it was a good 1.5-2 carlengths ahead of either of the other cars. And this was with my full off-road setup for the NMT (soft springs with loose oil, and huge, soft tires (the ones in the left pic of my sig), which means low acceleration, good top-end) Hah it was awesome.
-->This other time, when my bro and I were just hanging out at that same theater parking lot during the day (cause I wanted to test out my new on-road setup for my NMT), and I was drivin it around, tuning the engine, etc etc. Now this is my full on-road setup, with low-profile tires (middle pic of avatar), springs easily twice as stiff as the off-road ones, and shock oil almost twice as thick (70wt, vs 40wt), so I get massive acceleration but not-so-good top-end (about 39-40mph). This beautiful white new CLK55 AMG starts coming towards me (as it got closer, I noticed a 60-some man with his wife in it), so I line up my truck next to where it's gonna be, then when it got beside me, I hammered it. Noticing that he was being raced, the guy in the CLK HAMMERED it (engine roaring, tires screaming and all) and, again, I whooped it until my truck hit top speed :roll:
--> One time when I was staying ay my friend's house down at the New Jersey shore for Thanksgiving 2 years ago, I brought my truck along (in full on-road guise) so I could drive it around there. So it's about 10:00 at night, and I'm terrorizing this main street right near the house with my NMT. The traffic was sparse, as it was thanksgiving night, but every car that went by, I raced... Needless to say, I only got one or two brief races, but they were nothing. This one time though, there was this mid-90's Mercedes C-class, black with tinted windows, who I raced, but I ended up backing off a bit, just to get behind him cause i didnt wanna run into the curb. But I was behind him for like a second then the guy slams on the brakes and I almost ran into him! I almost had a heart attack cause I almost rammed the car (fortunately I was able to stop in time). Hah it was fun though.
--> Lol now for some rear car-car races :lol: Aiight, my bro and I did a lot of driving in my dad's old car (which he replaced with a 3.2TL) which was a 1995 Lincoln Continental with a 4.6-liter V8 that put out 260 hp and 260 lb-ft of torque (...stock). Interestingly, we were able to get quite a few people to race us, but none were crazy cars. We beat: ford probe (or as my bro and I call it, the anal-probe), three or four riced out civics, an old-ish Mazda 626, and some other random cars from time to time. It was fun though, beating those rice bombs with an old, sloppy, american luxury boat.
My bro and I are likely gonna buy ourselves a mid-90s Lexus SC300, and needless to say we're gonna be doin quite a bit of racing with it :lol: so even though that's a long way away, I'll keep you guys posted!
lol hope you liked the stories! and let's hear some of yours!!
Peace
Brian