- Jul 3, 2003
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I engaged in a contest of speed.
My wife and I were driving back from Harvest Ranch market in Encinitas in my C63 with the top down on a 50mph six lane road coming up through Leucadia into Carlsbad and we found ourselves behind a new Toyota Supra and I have to say, that car looks really good from the rear. He was in front of us at the light and my wife asked me what kind of car it was so I told her but I couldn’t really remember the specs on it. Anyway, the light changed and he took off in a real hurry so naturally I decided to see if he could pull away from me... he couldn’t. We found ourselves at the next light with a car in between us so when it changed I floored it. Surprisingly he was pulling on me a little bit but I kept my foot in it and wound him back in and passed him. I have no idea how fast we were going but we easily dropped the few cars that were behind us. I quickly backed out of it and as we came up to the next light I gave him a thumbsup and he and his GF were both grinning ear to ear and gave me a thumbs up. We drove the rest of the way home at legal speeds.
Yes, it was childish but it was fun and the area we were in has no houses, no sidewalks, no side streets and there was no traffic in either direction so the danger level was pretty low.
I looked up the specs on that car and was kind of surprised how quick they are. He really should have beat me as my car has about 900lbs on his but I have a good 130hp more and quite a lot more torque. Temps were in the high 80s and we are at sea level and despite having the top down I was blasting the AC. He definitely was too as he had the windows up. In hindsight I should have turned the AC off first.
My wife and I were driving back from Harvest Ranch market in Encinitas in my C63 with the top down on a 50mph six lane road coming up through Leucadia into Carlsbad and we found ourselves behind a new Toyota Supra and I have to say, that car looks really good from the rear. He was in front of us at the light and my wife asked me what kind of car it was so I told her but I couldn’t really remember the specs on it. Anyway, the light changed and he took off in a real hurry so naturally I decided to see if he could pull away from me... he couldn’t. We found ourselves at the next light with a car in between us so when it changed I floored it. Surprisingly he was pulling on me a little bit but I kept my foot in it and wound him back in and passed him. I have no idea how fast we were going but we easily dropped the few cars that were behind us. I quickly backed out of it and as we came up to the next light I gave him a thumbsup and he and his GF were both grinning ear to ear and gave me a thumbs up. We drove the rest of the way home at legal speeds.
Yes, it was childish but it was fun and the area we were in has no houses, no sidewalks, no side streets and there was no traffic in either direction so the danger level was pretty low.
I looked up the specs on that car and was kind of surprised how quick they are. He really should have beat me as my car has about 900lbs on his but I have a good 130hp more and quite a lot more torque. Temps were in the high 80s and we are at sea level and despite having the top down I was blasting the AC. He definitely was too as he had the windows up. In hindsight I should have turned the AC off first.
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