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Old Apr 30, 2006 | 03:28 PM
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So, I'm out cruising around last night, it's a nice cool night out, not much traffic around town... wasn't a whole lot going on so I was thinking about heading home when a Red SS is across from me at a light. It turned green and he u-turned to get behind me. Once I saw he u-turned, I knew what he wanted to do. So I lead the way out of town onto a 4 lane highway.

I pulled out and let him get besides me doing about 15 mph and we roll down our windows and he asks to run from a 30mph roll, because "I think I can win from a roll". I just smirked and said "Okay". So we pulled up to 30mph, I'm in 2nd gear and I tell him to start when he wants. We cruised for about 5 seconds at 30mph and he went WOT, it took all of half a second before I started to shoot out past him and proceeded to put lengths and lengths on him up to about 90mph. So he flashes his lights on and off to let me know he gave up. He catches back up to me and proceeds to say he popped out of 2nd gear...hah okay. So I tell him to run from 1st gear this time, from a 15mph roll.

So we drop down to 15mph and I tell him to start again. He jumps pretty hard and I roll into 1st so I don't fry the tires off. I was at his back bumper and I quickly pulled up to his front bumper, wheel hopping just a little, eased into 2nd and proceeded to pull out hard, shifted into 3rd and the bus lengths were about to arrive again and he suddenly stops. So we slow down again and he said to me "You only beat me by a car length or two that time". I said "Man, I was still pulling you hard and you just quit". So he looks at me like I'm full of crap...

I'm not one to drive really fast on public roads, but I figured since it was 12:30, on an absolutely dead 4 lane highway, all this time we've spent talking and racing and a single car hasn't gone past us, I'd run him at some higher speeds. So I tell him to race from 15mph to 120 this time, he agrees it's a good idea because "my top end pulls so hard". Hah, okay.

So I let him start the race, this time I actually got decent traction in first and shot out past his front bumper, eased into 2nd and proceeded to pull out a bunch of cars, get into 3rd just kept pulling and pulling, he was so far back I couldn't even begin to estimate how far, powershifted into 4th really hard, ran up to 120 and quit.

Anyways, we slow back down and pull into a rest stop and he starts telling me how it's the first 03/04 Cobra he lost to. Hah!
Old Apr 30, 2006 | 03:32 PM
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very nice kill... he sounds like the chevy guy who think fords cant beat them.
Old Apr 30, 2006 | 03:35 PM
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Lmao, nice kill man! Wish I was at the point where my car would take an LS1 like that [8D]
Old Apr 30, 2006 | 03:38 PM
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Couple more mods and you will be able to!

BTW, he had 3.73 gears, lid & SLP catback. Sounded like crap.
Old Apr 30, 2006 | 04:01 PM
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Nice kill.

I've yet to race a 03/04 cobra, street or track. I wonder how I would stack up.
Old Apr 30, 2006 | 04:05 PM
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here is a random question, what does WOT stand for?
Old Apr 30, 2006 | 04:08 PM
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Very nice kill. No surprise at all though haha.
Old Apr 30, 2006 | 04:08 PM
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here is a random question, what does WOT stand for?
Wide open throttle
Old Apr 30, 2006 | 04:09 PM
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Good kill man, and WOT stands for "wide open throttle", I assume. Not sure though.
Old Apr 30, 2006 | 04:18 PM
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Nice kill.

I've yet to race a 03/04 cobra, street or track. I wonder how I would stack up.
I figure it would be close to a drivers race



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