Originally Posted by keyd
Stop light turns green and he jumps out to a 3-4 car lead on me. I'm thinking wtf is going on??? He didn't pull away any further but I didn't catch him either. He kicked my @ss so bad. I remember thinking how in the hell did he get that beatup crapper to go so fast? Afterward he explained to me all I didn't know about acvws.
I was the chump who raced a bug, thinking to myself, look at that pos over there and he wants to race my 5oh. I wanted the sleeper effect...regardless of how fast it looked to the informed person...the un-informed was only concerned that it was a bug.. I was that guy.
Thats what I am talking about and at the time I bet you were feelin pretty dumb losing to a POS bug but in retrospect (now that we are adults) we are like man that was pretty cool (or at least I would be) a similar story is when I was in highschool (same era) and some guy at school had a gen 1 Rx7 that we (motor heads w/chevelle's nova's etc few mopars too) joked about until my friend lost to him in his 70' with 350/th350 because as it turned out the guy had a chevy 4.3L V6 in it. talk about feeling pretty lame! but in retrospect now I was like man that was pretty cool!
P.S. 20-30 years from now there will be some new fad in hot cars and there will always be the domestic/import argument... It has been going on FOREVER