I normally don't post my kills and try to avoid street runs as much as possible, but I had a pretty funny encounter last week that I'll post. So, I was pulling up to the far right lane of a 3 lane light and didn't really notice who was in the left lane as a big Super Duty truck was in the middle lane. When the light turned green, I took off at a normal pace, taking off quicker than the super duty next to me. All of a sudden, I hear the person in the far left lane get on it hard and I stayed on the throttle at a light pace. Looked over and it was 2 young looking kids starring at me with a cocky grin in what sounded to be a non-stock Silver 392 Challenger manual trans car as they ripped by me. I let them pass me and caught them at the next light. I had my convertible top down and the passenger rolled down his window when I got to the light. I told him to follow me to the abandoned highway extension road to get a run in and they were game. I asked the driver "what do you have done to that thing, and the answer I got was something I never heard someone tell me on a random encounter: "you'll find out" as they both grinned and looked like they were getting ready to jerk each other off. :tomato:
Anyway, led them on to the abandoned highway extension in Mexico that eventually leads to a single lane poorly paved road after a few miles. Got them into a 50 mph roll and started in 2nd gear. I honked it off, and we both had a clean start, neither jumping on the other. I immediately took a 1/2 car lead off the hit, and never looked back from there. Shifting to 3rd at 74, I already was up over a car. Then went into 3rd gear, and I continued to pull away. By the end of 3rd at 110, I was already 4-5 cars up and pulling. I was going to stop there, but he was still on it trying to catch me, so I shifted hard into 4th and let her rip some more. By 140 mph, he was a good 8+ cars back. I immediately got on the brakes as we were reaching the end of the highway extension. He caught me, and I gave them a thumbs up over my windows and the driver returned the thumbs up (thought they were good sports after all despite being dusted with that "you'll find out" comment. However, once we got to the end of the extension to the unpaved gravel road, he proceeded to due something pretty dumb and rip it on the gravel causing rocks/debris to come up and likely chip his paint. Anyway, it was a fun experience and had to post, esp. after those comments
BTW, this was with my Full Bolt-On C6 Z51 6-speed Vert' with the top down. The 392 Challenger was loud with "unknown" mods and had one extra 140 lb soaking wet passenger. Thanks for reading.
Anyway, led them on to the abandoned highway extension in Mexico that eventually leads to a single lane poorly paved road after a few miles. Got them into a 50 mph roll and started in 2nd gear. I honked it off, and we both had a clean start, neither jumping on the other. I immediately took a 1/2 car lead off the hit, and never looked back from there. Shifting to 3rd at 74, I already was up over a car. Then went into 3rd gear, and I continued to pull away. By the end of 3rd at 110, I was already 4-5 cars up and pulling. I was going to stop there, but he was still on it trying to catch me, so I shifted hard into 4th and let her rip some more. By 140 mph, he was a good 8+ cars back. I immediately got on the brakes as we were reaching the end of the highway extension. He caught me, and I gave them a thumbs up over my windows and the driver returned the thumbs up (thought they were good sports after all despite being dusted with that "you'll find out" comment. However, once we got to the end of the extension to the unpaved gravel road, he proceeded to due something pretty dumb and rip it on the gravel causing rocks/debris to come up and likely chip his paint. Anyway, it was a fun experience and had to post, esp. after those comments
BTW, this was with my Full Bolt-On C6 Z51 6-speed Vert' with the top down. The 392 Challenger was loud with "unknown" mods and had one extra 140 lb soaking wet passenger. Thanks for reading.