Hey all... went out for a little cruise last night. Not much action, but I got a good laugh out of these two non-races.

Was on Harris BLVD (4-laner, 45 limit). When I rolled up on a red 2g eclipse in traffic. Lowered, decent set of rims, euro tails, fart cannon, stock small wing, and the god awfulest monster tach I'd ever seen... I bet the thing was atleast 4 inches across. We were 3 or 4 cars back in traffic at a light, so I revved at him a couple of times just to see if he wanted to play.

I didn't get any responce, so when the light went green I moved on with traffic, cut around a couple of cars, and ended up infront of the pack. At this point I was just riding, but as I pull up to the next light who rolls up beside be but Mr. little red eclipse again. This time I was 1 car back and he had noone infront of him.

The light went green and I noticed he took his time getting off the line, he hung back about a car behind me... I guess trying to figure out what the heck I was... until the car infront of me turned off. This left us with open road for a good mile or so. I slowed to about 30 and he rolled up and passed me, then hit his brakes and slowed down. I dropped it into 2nd and slowed to about 20, we were side by side. I had just lifted my hand to tap the horn when he suddenly decided he didn't want any. He pulled a u-turn in the middle of the road and headed out in the other direction. Maybe he figured out that I wasn't a base model Cobalt LOL.

Feeling a little cheated I got to the end of Harris and turned onto Independance, headed towards home. I got to a light, nobody around... and who decides to roll up on me but two teens in mom's V6 Accord 4-door... windows down and stock stereo blaring. Now the lane they were in ended about 1/8th mile down, so noone ever gets in that lane unless they intend to pass you before it merges. Kind-of a given race situation.

I decided to play for the hell of it. When the light went green I laid on the gas a bit heavy and gave 'em a small chirp from the tires as I took off. They took the bait!

I heard the driver hit it and immediately put the pedal to the floor. The nice thing about these Bwoody mounts... zero hop. First gear dissapeared in a flash like it always does, and the tires broke loose again as I popped it into 2nd. I ran 2nd all the way out, then shifted to 3rd and let off. An obligatory glance in the rear-view yielded the Accord a respectable distance back. Perhaps the kids will think twice before joy-riding in mom's sedan again.

Summary: Tried to race a 2g eclipse, we lined up for a 20 roll, he u-turned and ran off. Two teens in mom's V6 Accord Sedan tried to get me from a dig, and were promptly burned.

Hope y'all enjoyed.

 

funny thing about your stories, they're always interesting. i dont know if its the way you word it or what, but i never seem to loose interest while reading. haha.. good kill on the honda, btw.

 

heheh... thanks

were you comin this way today? I tried to call... left a message.

 

Eh, I dont know where my phone is. Haha. Anyway, Candace has to be at work at 5. She works from 5-9. If you think we can do it in that short time, then sure I'll come. Haha.

 

your PM box is full... tried to message you..

5-9 really won't work for me... I gotta pick gin's folks up at the airport this evening... what about tomorrow? I'm free all day then.

 

Sure tomorrow will work for me man. I think Candace has to work from 2-7 or something? She'd probably go in at 1 for an extra hour, so how's that sound?

 

That sounds just fine.

Plus I can actually clean the house up today LOL... so it won't be so much of a mess for tomorrow.

 

Lol. Dont worry about the mess, my house is messy too. When we install my STS, we can chill in the cobalt and i'll keep the A/C rollin' haha

 

good kill raine if i was off id come cruise in charlotte to try to find some fellow css people but i gotta work 1 till 9 im off monday

 

I'm not going to lie...i'm not a laughing guy..but that accord story is hilarious!!!!! I could just see the looks on the MOMs face...priceless

 

Raineman and GTP have the best race storys on the site.

 

they really are funny. too bad the eclipse ran away though

 

Thanks for the props boys! I guess I'm gonna have to go out cruising more often... find some more suckers to make us all laugh.