As hard as I try to avoid street racing, nice opportunities pop up everywhere, and since I haven't raced at a track yet this year, I broke down and street raced just now. YOU MIGHT NOT BELIEVE THIS ONE, but I know it's true!
I was just coming home from Auburn, MA, heading South on 395. I was cruising in the empty minivan at about 75 mph. There is a Mustang 5.0 pulling up on my right side, about to enter the highway from a near-parallel ramp. We are going exactly the same speed, and it's obvious that we're on a collision course. I have the right of way, so it's up to him to brake and let me go first. I can't move over to the left, because another car is crawling by me on my left.
MUSTANG BOY is not going to brake! He floors it to cut in front of me. I'm in 18 psi mode (13.9's mode) and I punch it. I pull ahead of MUSTANG BOY easily to his dismay. I slow back down to 75, but MUSTANG BOY wants to fly by me, so I punch it again and we have a serious race going on. My speedo is WAY past the 85 mph max, well over 100, and I don't know how fast I'm going, but MUSTANG BOY is losing so bad that I never bother to flip my boost switch to "high". After I blow his doors off I slow down again and he can't pass me, because he has no room, and is trapped behind me. He falls WAY back, must be going 55 mph. I'm sure I know what he's up to, and I'm right! He wants me to forget about him so that he can make a high speed charge by me. I'm aware, but I let him fly by at about 120 mph so that I can further humiliate him. I want to see where he turns off the highway so that I can drag race him away from the exit ramp stop sign and pass him while he's floored.
Guess what?? MUSTANG BOY takes my exit!! He turns uphill, toward my house! He guns it uphill, and while he's chirping rubber over the cement bridge that crosses over the highway we just got off, Mean Mini goes PAST him burning both front tires and charging HARD on HIGH boost, which I am now using (or abusing, as the case may be). MUSTANG BOY is totally humiliated, and we both know it!! I slow down in Thompson center to bear right towards my house and MUSTANG BOY follows me. As we approach a stop sign, MUSTANG BOY flashes brilliant red lights at me... MUSTANG BOY IS A STATE COP!!!
Yeeee-haaa!!! We're havin' fun, now!! I stop at the sign and roll down my window to let MUSTANG OFFICER yell at me. MUSTANG OFFICER just sits behind me and shuts his light off. I drive home slowly, and he turns off 2 driveways before my own.
He is obviously in awe of Mean Mini and has flashed his lights as a "salute". D***, that was awesome fun!! If I was driving a Corvette I'd be in need of bail.
Boys and girls, don't try this at home.
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