Grr..

GreenZ28in503
10-05-2003, 04:35 PM
Friday night I was out with my wife and a friend at the movies. As we were leaving we saw/ heard a pretty beefy sounding fox body sporting a window sticker for a well known local Ford performance place. I've been going easy on the car since my ignition system has ben breaking up around 5000 RPMs lately (Opti), but I got a wild hair and followed him out of the parking lot.

I pulled in behind him at a left turn onto a 3 lane main road. The light turned green and he turned into the left lane and floored it. I turned out into the middle lane and followed suit. He started out with about a car length on me, but I was reeling him in pretty fast. Right when my nose gets to his door he HITS THE BRAKES and I sail past him. There's still about 1/8-1/4 mile to the next light. I back off and meet him at the light. He's got a guy in the passenger seat. I tell him his car sounds pretty good, and he says "Yeah, it goes alright."

Light turns green and I motion to give him the jump. He takes it and I hit the gas when he's about halfway through the intersection. Here I come, short shifting as I go. :o This time I get to his front fender before he shuts it down again with plenty of road still left. WTF? At least let me have my win before you give up. :mad:

Pretty stupid I know, but it kinda torqued me anyway.

Antz97ZNJ
10-05-2003, 05:36 PM
probably a bolt on/cammed 5.0...good runs

FastZinTennessee
10-05-2003, 09:28 PM
What a pud.

IXLR894Z28
10-06-2003, 12:09 PM
Maybe he has no top-end and won't race past 60mph. good runs though.

slowpoke96z28
10-11-2003, 03:43 AM
can't stand people like that. they pull that stunt, then claim"i allready had you beat so i got out of it". Yeah, whatever. Next time you're in that situation, tell him" YOU LIFT, YOU LOSE, BEE-OTCTH!!"

Shadowfax
10-13-2003, 11:43 AM
I would typically wait until they were past, but I'd drop out at reasonable speed if they were catching well- for a long time my Stealth didn't have a great top end- so you catch up by 80 and there wasn't any reason to stay in it!

This guy sounds like more of a jerk, but if you are racing and the other guy clearly is winning, why push it farther?

edg1957
10-16-2003, 01:20 AM
YOU LIFT, YOU LOSE, BEE-OTCTH!!

:cool: :cool: :cool:

Roger that!

Ed