| not to post. I was sitting here telling my friend about it and spun around in my chair thinking "why haven't I posted this!?". Anyway, I'm driving to Smart and Final with a friend in the car to get some groceries and stuff for gameday tomorrow and I see a brand new C5 convertible make a left onto the street I was on. I really didn't think anything more about it since A) I was on the street and B) I'm on 91 pump gas (swill). Even so, I managed to get right next to them at the light. I didn't look over, I didn't instigate a thing but I saw the Rydell Dealer plate on it and just KNEW he'd want to impress his lady. I live in a small town full of domestics that always treat me like shit...so I was "ready", if you will. The light turned green and we both left the light normal for the first 20 feet but then I heard him goose it and within a split second I had the hammer down as well. Quickly gained back the lead by about half a car (stock turbo spool rocks) and proceed to pull away (albeit slowly) to about 80 or so. No traffic, lazy Sunday but still uncharacteristic of me during the day. They came up next to me, his girl gave me a smile, he gave me a nod and they took off. Normally, I wouldn't post something like that since it isn't all that spectacular or interesting...and it just spurs on more people to be jackasses like me. However, it didn't stop there. We get to Smart and Final and those bastards are closed. So we head back towards the Ralphs supermarket by my house as a last resort. As I'm nearing the driveway, I see a sparkling red Porsche 944 Turbo weaving through traffic and instictively I expect him to rev me as he goes by. Not only does he do that, but he hops into my lane right ahead of me as I'm about to turn right into the Ralphs and takes off. After that C5 silliness, I should have been done...but something in me just said "go for it". I'm no role model, damnit! So I returned the turn signal back to its original, boring position and followed him. He went about a 1/4 mile to my favorite freeway onramp which has almost zero angle to it and leads straight onto a wide open 5-lane freeway. You know the freeway chases on the TV show CHiPs? They filmed that here back in the day...wide open...this couldn't be more perfect. I mash the throttle and ride a few cars back of him up the ramp and just as I crest the top of it, I can see there's no cars behind or in front of us. I sweep out to the left and pass him steadily. These cars stock aren't all that powerful compared to my car as it is, but people can, and do, mod them to be pretty damn fast. Especially on the highway. That being said, we get up to highly illegal speeds quite quick when out of the corner of my eye I see a CHP officer on the side of the road writing someone a ticket. Shit. I deserve it. I quickly check my outs, make sure the Porsche is not behind me and then slam on the brakes. I'm down to 100 or so as I pass the officer and I'm quickly off the brakes so as to try not to draw attention. I can faintly see the cop look up as I slowly merged over to the right to get to the next exit (one past my own). I get off the freeway, bust two quick rights and I'm back on a small road to home. My friend is worried sick that the CHP may have sent a radio out to the local police and I'm quick to tell him that in most circles the police consider the CHP to be the Automobile Club with guns and there's NO way that's happening. Just as I say that, I see a city cop coming the other way on the street and my heart sinks. Shit. Lucky for me, he suspected nothing and went right on by. So I manage my way back to the Ralphs that I should have went to originally instead of going on an escapade with the Porsche. Just as I park the Z, up pulls the Porsche right next to me. Great. The guy gets out and he's in his mid-40s, has two extremely dirty hands and he's wearing loafers with cut up shorts. What the...? The first thing he says is, "I had a feeling you might be fast, but I didn't think it'd be that bad". He then explains his condition by saying he was just working on the car, detuning it so that he could pass smog. He throws in a few other things that sound like lame excuses and that it isn't running so good. The car looked pristine and had some nice "German-style" wheels on it. I had to laugh to myself...people just don't realize the Z can excel in SOME things. I know the game he was playing and I was in a "screw you, I'm not letting you think you should have won" kinda mood. So I politely informed him that I usually run better gas and I was on my low boost setting. Total 16-year old jackassery, I know. He laughs, almost appearing to understand how stupid both our statements are and says "Maybe we'll see eachother when we're at 100%, huh?". In fact, he was pretty cool about it all. Turned out he has a cam, exhaust, upped the boost somehow and probably a few other things he didn't mention. It sounded pretty damn nice and looked brochure-new, which is far better than the average tired 944 around here. Now, as if that is not enough...and believe me, that's MORE than enough excitement for me lately, there's more. As we talk turbos for a bit, I happen to mention how crazy a day it had been and that I just had a race with a red Corvette earlier. He stops me cold and says "Was it a convertible?". My friend and I look at eachother and as one say, "Yeah". I also mention the Rydell plate and that it looked brand new. He says "Oh, that's my friend Randy! He actually used to have one of those [points to my Z]. But the car sucked a valve at 30,000 miles. He had it repaired and sold it. Looks like he made the wrong decision." Un-f'ing-real. I'm a sucker for strange coincidences in that I always point them out and laugh to myself...but this one surprised even me. Not only do I find some random guy and humiliate him in front of his girl with his new car, but I mow down his friend not five minutes later, going the opposite direction. Damn...I *so* wish I could be there when this guy sees his friend the next time and mentions it. Mastercard has nothing on that. Happy Memorial Day weekend to me. Stay safe and please don't so what I do.
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