Re: Well just got a speeding ticket....
I can imagine this one.
I'm so glad I wasn't around you growing up, I'd feel about 90 right about now.
That's insane. I'm glad I'm not one of those stories...once I had kids, it was time to back off some. I don't think I go more than 80, 85 once in a blue moon now. But I also moved about half a block from work. Remove all temptations and thou shalt not go apesh*t (or something like that).
When I think about the crap I did in my vehicles as a kid, I have no idea how I survived. My old 1968 Mustang California Special (kind of like a Shelby, but a coupe instead of a fastback) was a deathtrap. It was running a little 289 block but had 351 Cleveland heads on it, bored .040 over, 14:1 forged TRW pistons, Nitrous on a wide-open throttle switch...press it to the floor and the nitrous kicked in, etc. Had to have the engine rebuilt more times than I can count. It was so tough to keep cool I had to have a bigass GM truck radiator welded into the frame to attempt to keep the engine temp down.
The aerodynamics on the old cars were so bad...once I got it near 150 or so, it would actually try to TAKE OFF like an airplane. The aerodynamics were backwards; instead of squatting down on the road, it would just lift up and get loose like a sloppy Brooklyn whore. My girlfriend at the time loved going fast, but she hated it when the car would lift off the road at huge speeds and just shift a few feet in any direction repeatedly. It was like trying to drive something where you only have control for a split second (when it touched down again) every few seconds before the steering wheel goes loose in your hands again, it was insane. Absolutely insane. I even had the hood of the car rip off one time at those speeds and go flying over the cab.
Man, I'm glad I have a little 93 Toyota Pickup that I don't have that problem in anymore
When I think about the crap I did in my vehicles as a kid, I have no idea how I survived. My old 1968 Mustang California Special (kind of like a Shelby, but a coupe instead of a fastback) was a deathtrap. It was running a little 289 block but had 351 Cleveland heads on it, bored .040 over, 14:1 forged TRW pistons, Nitrous on a wide-open throttle switch...press it to the floor and the nitrous kicked in, etc. Had to have the engine rebuilt more times than I can count. It was so tough to keep cool I had to have a bigass GM truck radiator welded into the frame to attempt to keep the engine temp down.
The aerodynamics on the old cars were so bad...once I got it near 150 or so, it would actually try to TAKE OFF like an airplane. The aerodynamics were backwards; instead of squatting down on the road, it would just lift up and get loose like a sloppy Brooklyn whore. My girlfriend at the time loved going fast, but she hated it when the car would lift off the road at huge speeds and just shift a few feet in any direction repeatedly. It was like trying to drive something where you only have control for a split second (when it touched down again) every few seconds before the steering wheel goes loose in your hands again, it was insane. Absolutely insane. I even had the hood of the car rip off one time at those speeds and go flying over the cab.
Man, I'm glad I have a little 93 Toyota Pickup that I don't have that problem in anymore
I can imagine this one. I'm so glad I wasn't around you growing up, I'd feel about 90 right about now.
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