Bbviper wrote:
At 15 this happens like every dayin a car like this.
I'll admit to doing some insanely stupid shit in a low hp car when I was 16. I believe that the dumb crap that I did was proof that Darwins theory of evolution can't be right, as the insanely stupid are suppose to die off while the nancy~pancy's of the world live on.
That being said I still do dumb shit. I try to keep my homocidal tendencies in a four wheel vehicle more under control now, but they're still there. This is why I don't own a crotch rocket. I would last about 2 weeks. tops.
I especially see it come out at gatherings. And I'm not talking stealth/3000GT gatherings alone. I remeber at the last jaguar gathering I went to watching Phil Hill BLAST down the highway at well over 130 mph in a full race version of a jaguar C-Type while smoking a cigarette. (His wife let off at 120 in her X-type
) They're over 50 years old.
When I was 12 thru ... um... now, I would sit and listen to my father tell me about street racing when he was a kid. He would race against my uncle in his 73 camaro that was fairly hot rodded up. My uncle ran a ford torino(spelling? not that good with old fords... sorry.) with a 429 corbra jet. Camaro on the corners, better suspension, lighter, (smoked him, right Jesse?
) and my uncle's ford would power house the straight-a-ways. They had a stretch of road in between door county and green bay that they liked to run as it had good pavement, plenty of turns and a few looooooong straights. I went down it in the stealth once. there are a couple of blind corners that scared the shit out of me. I can't see making a few of those turns on drum brakes with shitty tires from back in the day.
But what the hell am I talking about? My point is that we all do dumb things. Some more than others. Age is a factor, but I don't think the most important one. Street racing did not begin with the Civic
and Fast and the Furious.
Autoracing started 15 minutes after the second car was made. America has an obsesion with cars. the faster the better. Which usually means red cars. 'Cause those are fast.
~~If~~ this kid has a nice, fast car don't give him grief for having it. or for being fifteen. give him grief for posting the dumbest questions on the face of the planet earth. But don't be mean about it. not that long ago I was posting the dumbest questions on earth, and I had five years on the kid. Don't deny him the right to do dumb things in a car, or Hillary Clinton will be the next president and take away the internal combustion engine because it pollutes and you'll all be riding bikes.
Me, I'll be in Canada, orginanizing the ~La Resistance!~
;)