I lean forward when I drive... it definitely gets me there faster, specially since the lean pushes my foot down on the accelerator. 
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Rode in a Lotus 7 years ago, I barely fit and yessssss ayuss-numbing doesn't even start to describe it.
Far worse than my sand rail and even the 400 Yamaha I used to have.
As far as acceleration (besides non street legal vehicles) the most impressed I have been was a 500+CI Shelby Cobra replica.
And for a bone stock out of the factory car it was a 1970 Boss 429 shotgun hemi Mustang
Back when, a kid from Ava showed up with one and wanted to go racing with a few of us.
At midnight we went to one of our usual secluded places and several of us had our usual grudge races.
Dicky decided he would race him for fun (We had 10 to 11 sec street cars with slicks and the mustang had MT 50's)
Dicky took him 9 or 10 cars out of the hole with his low 11 sec v8 Vega and the kid made up all but 1 at the end of the 1/4 mile.
Then we all wanted to see under that hood!
That thing would have been a solid 10 if not high 9 sec car with slicks and it looked like any old Mach1.
Sorry, I digressed to what The Boss described as Glory Days
my boss has a Shelby Mustang that must whack 600hp. He complained about the handling in the wet at which point Smurf offered to drive it for him when it rained, since she comes from a place used to crap weather.
I'm glad she's well-known here.
T
I'm glad she's well-known here.
T
Heh, tell him to not drive it in the wet like he would when it's dry?!? I'd love to step up from a GT to a Shelby... just need someone to buy my GT LOL. Still though, 400hp from the factory isn't anything to sneeze at though.
One of the craziest memories I had as a teen involved a 1967 Mustang Fastback. A friend of mine in HS bought one and fixed it up. He spent untold hours getting it road ready, did his own body work, invested all his paychecks on it for months. He gets it road ready, but didn't have all the wiring done (blinker lights mostly). He thought he'd take it on a quick drive to test the engine out and make sure it was really running right. This was in Long Island, where you can't get registration without an inspection, so the car had to have EVERYTHING working before you could get it registered and insured, and he just wanted to test drive.
So he picks a couple of friends up, and gets me too... I lived about 5 miles away, so he took a crazy risk getting me, but he wanted me to see it, he was so proud of that car. As he's pulling out into the major road (not a highway) 3 blocks from my house to head back to his house, he goes to make a right (his blinker didn't work), and some JERK drives right up the SHOULDER of the road as he's about to turn right and slams into him on the right side (MY side, I was in the front passenger seat). He has no tags, no registration, no insurance, and the car he hit was some jerk in a Mercedes...
As soon as he could get the car started again, he takes off. The police show up (there have always been way more cops on Long Island than anywhere else in the US) and start a high speed chase. Meanwhile, my finger had bent backwards in the impact, and I thought it was broken, so I'm trying not to scream in pain, as we get chased by what ended up being about 5 cop cars. No seat belts in the car, no such thing as an air bag...
Well, it's a '67 Fastback
... we lost the cops.
We make it back to his house, alive, and he drops us off, then goes to 'dispose' of the car of his dreams into a lake... sigh. Hrm... bet it's still in that lake... (in NY, we called it a 'sump'... wasn't a real lake. In Florida, sumps are lakes too).
Oh yah... we were tearing through 30 mph residential neighborhoods at about 160 MPH. It was.. uh... fun?
So he picks a couple of friends up, and gets me too... I lived about 5 miles away, so he took a crazy risk getting me, but he wanted me to see it, he was so proud of that car. As he's pulling out into the major road (not a highway) 3 blocks from my house to head back to his house, he goes to make a right (his blinker didn't work), and some JERK drives right up the SHOULDER of the road as he's about to turn right and slams into him on the right side (MY side, I was in the front passenger seat). He has no tags, no registration, no insurance, and the car he hit was some jerk in a Mercedes...
As soon as he could get the car started again, he takes off. The police show up (there have always been way more cops on Long Island than anywhere else in the US) and start a high speed chase. Meanwhile, my finger had bent backwards in the impact, and I thought it was broken, so I'm trying not to scream in pain, as we get chased by what ended up being about 5 cop cars. No seat belts in the car, no such thing as an air bag...
Well, it's a '67 Fastback
... we lost the cops.We make it back to his house, alive, and he drops us off, then goes to 'dispose' of the car of his dreams into a lake... sigh. Hrm... bet it's still in that lake... (in NY, we called it a 'sump'... wasn't a real lake. In Florida, sumps are lakes too
).Oh yah... we were tearing through 30 mph residential neighborhoods at about 160 MPH. It was.. uh... fun?
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Got caught in a freak rain with slicks on.
It takes a long time to get home at 7 mph.
ROFL, that's you?!? No kidding. Yeah 7mph would take awhile to get home at lol.
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Yep, about 10 mph in the rain with 10" slicks and the rear end goes wherever it pleases.
Er, no, my finger was only sprained
. As the years have proven, I have very tough hands.
He didn't say anything about having slicks on LOL. Big difference. I'd complain about that handling in the rain too.
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If anyone else took it that I was T's boss, I am sorry about that.
Long story, but there was a misunderstanding in the banter.
I thought Borescoped was referring to someone else telling the slicks in the rain story a while back.
Long story, but there was a misunderstanding in the banter.
I thought Borescoped was referring to someone else telling the slicks in the rain story a while back.
Soo.... How about those OliveR Dibis( Dibii?Dibises?) one sweet mod huh?
Sorry Lol, proceed on tangents.
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Sorry Lol, proceed on tangents.
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not only did i spew coffee over my keyboard, i had to shower and change clothes. laundry day tomorrow...
It must suck to be a cartoon character with one outfit, huh Fred? p
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