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| jwalters |
  Dec 3 2006, 06:22 PM
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Sooo Close.......  Group: Members Posts: 1,677 Joined: 14-May 04 From: Huntsville, AL Member No.: 2,068 Region Association: Europe  |
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/MDB2.gif) Fired up Sabbath for a quick lap around the neighborhood. It is an absolutely gorgeous night out. Cool, slight breeze, plenty o stars - Haven't seen ole Johnny in awhile,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/hide.gif) OK! Coast is clear. In I go, fires up after some heavy pumping of the pedal. Fires up, check lights. DAMN! Whole left side is out. Should I chance it?? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) Decide it is better not to - out comes the multi-meter. After a quick look over, a fuse is missing... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) Funny, it was there last month............. Scour home and skunk works for fuse. Nothing (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) Then I start wonder aloud : "How would VanWilder handle this??" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) Ok, rob fuse for headlight retract and go! HA! IT WORKED!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif) Start pulling out of yard, see a car coming. Decide better not chance it - tags are out and no ins. (but is just a lap around a gated community) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) Car passes. It is local PD! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) So I sit and "wait him out" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) Been 5 minutes, and no repeat drive-by............I making a run for it! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) Quickly I zing in the opposite direction. Quickly make turn towards interstate bypass. Slap shiftin @ 6800! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) Make another turn, then another, then I see it! The Texas turn-around is coming up. 180-degrees of newly asphalted apex - I shift to second, RPM's hovering @6100, speed about 58 but cannot really tell due to malfunctioning speedo with crazed bouncing needle!!!! I swing to the outside and then dive deep to the inside, no braking, just pure throttle control.....get all four HOWLING and a nice perfectly aligned drift to the right - - not much, just a foot or two. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) DAMN! I forgot how freaking NIMBLE this thing is, how perfectly BALANCED!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smiley_notworthy.gif) Coming up on turn two of the turnaround - got a stop sign to contend with now - Doing about 50 at this point and still a slight drift - quickly come off the gas while burying my foot into the brake, fully stopped from 50 in about 100 feet flat!! Freaking GRIP!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smiley_notworthy.gif) Make the west bound turn onto the frontage - -keeping my cool now, got two lights to go and then.............. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) Ok, HERE i AM!! I thought to myself. The one stretch of road I am fully blessed to be living next ------ 9 miles of ruler straight, no other cars around, top speed high test facility --- The light turns yellow for the cross lanes - - I hold the brake with my right foot while blipping the gas with the remaining side of exposed foot ...letting out the clutch until a firm tightness is met... Light is red now,,, countdown time................... 2 seconds and it is GREEN FOR ME!!!! ONE! --- RPM's raised to a steady 65oo ---------slight release of brake pressure, allow the car to "inch it in" Two! --- Letting clutch out , watch RPM's fall to 6100 and continue --- Bury my foot in the gas while slipping her out-----Foot comes off the brake fully--- GREEN! --- Snatch first @ 7100 RPM's - Tires spin about 4 revs and HOOK! Less than a second and shifting up mad!! Second, don't miss third! I say to myslef as I watch the needle swing madly past the red, see 7200 and BAM! A perfect third shift - I am pushing the gas pedal so freaking madly I just know I am goin to rip it out of the floor!!! BAM! 7200 again and fourth arrives - I begin to notice a definite decline in forward ummph.....I really got to do my turbo set-up I onder loudly in my head -- (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) BOOM! Fifth gear - smoking at 105 right now and climbing, but falling off even more rapidly than before---that is ok I think - I still have 8 and 1/2 miles to go -- (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif) I AM Giving BlackSabbath pure HELL!!! - I am asking, no demanding more! more! MORE!!!! Keepn it buried until she coughs and wheezes --- See 142 and she is done! That is it! No more ass hole--get your fucking foot outta my ass already Sabbath says to me................... And then it really happens - - - the completely UNIMAGINABALE!!! SHIT!!! Son of a BITCH!!! I wake up from my dream --- I do not even remember falling alseep -------- (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) Or was it????? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif) |
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| So.Cal.914 |
Dec 3 2006, 06:53 PM
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"...And it has a front trunk too." Group: Members Posts: 6,588 Joined: 15-February 04 From: Low Desert, CA./ Hills of N.J. Member No.: 1,658 Region Association: None |
Well I enjoyed it , dream or not.
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| Twystd1 |
Dec 3 2006, 07:05 PM
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You don't want to know... really..... Group: Members Posts: 2,514 Joined: 12-September 04 From: Newport Beach, California Member No.: 2,743 |
Thanks for the gift...
I needed that today... Clayton |
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| VegasRacer |
 Dec 4 2006, 06:25 AM
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ELVIRA Group: Benefactors Posts: 8,507 Joined: 27-March 03 From: Between Scylla and Charybdis Member No.: 481 Region Association: None 
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| martinef1963 |
Dec 4 2006, 08:46 AM
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The Saga Continues... Group: Members Posts: 320 Joined: 9-November 04 From: Miami, FL, USA Member No.: 3,080 Region Association: South East States |
QUOTE(VegasRacer @ Dec 4 2006, 07:25 AM)  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_flagge24.gif) :permagrin: Dude - John Grisham can't hold a candle next that! See you on Wednesday. |
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| mrhurtalot |
Dec 4 2006, 09:58 AM
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VRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOM! Group: Members Posts: 323 Joined: 5-October 06 From: Yukon, Oklahoma Member No.: 6,996 |
wow. that was very exciting.
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| BarberDave |
Dec 4 2006, 11:53 AM
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Barberdave Group: Members Posts: 1,605 Joined: 12-January 03 From: Wauseon Ohio Member No.: 135 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
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Those two small red lights you saw in the distance was my 914 and me. I am in that dream to. Every time. Dave (IMG:style_emoticons/default/slap.gif) |
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| jwalters |
Dec 4 2006, 06:34 PM
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Sooo Close....... Group: Members Posts: 1,677 Joined: 14-May 04 From: Huntsville, AL Member No.: 2,068 Region Association: Europe |
Thanks for the nice comments guys! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
It was a really nice night for a (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) nap (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif) Ever since english comp I & II from college I have been wanting to put pen to paper and write a book. Can't seem to get past the beginning------hmmm brain races too much. Maybe I should increase levels of (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smoke.gif) Good dream it was --- ohhh yes, wonder where all the dead bugs on my windshield came from....haven't driven in over a month --- (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bye1.gif) |
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| crash914 |
Dec 4 2006, 06:57 PM
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its a mystery to me Group: Members Posts: 1,826 Joined: 17-March 03 From: Marriottsville, MD Member No.: 434 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
wow!
got a woodie... porsche porn.. better than forum... |
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