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lastcoupe -> Caprice vs GTO......huh? (5/23/2007 10:38:57 AM)
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Last Saturday I was taking my Caprice for a drive in the nice weather, and cruised up the old strip where we all used to drive up and down the road for hours on end, well I guess the kids still practice this, but I'm too old for that stuff now [:D]. Anyway I'm sitting at a red light, and I hear a VERY loud car reving it's engine behind me. I check the mirror of course and it's a red 2004ish Pontiac GTO. So when the light changes, I stand on it for a few seconds and lay a little rubber behind me, and I notice he does the same thing. I then slowed down a little and waited for him to get beside me. He yells over "sounds good" , and I reply with "thanks, nice car" It was a very nice bright red GTO with tinted windows, and definitely some kind of aftermarket exhuast. He says "we need to catch a light" and I said "no can't do that"..I did alot of street racing when I was younger, but now I'm just much too responsible for that type of thing. So, I tell him to follow me and we turned off and went to an old spot that a buddy's dad owned by the river (now owned by my buddy). He built race cars for a local drag-racer, and the two of them paved about a half a mile section of this property to tune the cars before raceday, and try different set-ups before it really counted at the track. We raced there so many times as teen-agers it brought back great memories just being there. Anyway it was a little grown over, but you could still see the marks that they laid down marking off the 1/4 mile finish line and there was still grooves burnt out of the asphalt at the old start line. We lined the cars up and I told him to count to 3 and take off. I knew before we even left the line that I wouldn't win, but I've never raced anything with this car since I built it, and just wondered what it would actually do in a 1/4 mile. So he said 3 and we both matted the pedal, we both spun a little and were off, supprisingly, I couldn't see the GTO, I kept waiting to see it in my periferal vision, but as I crossed the 1/4 mile mark it never happened! I looked as I lifted and had the GTO beat by about a car and a half! WEEEE! And keep in mind, my car is 18 FEET long! All this being said, The car was a 5.7 Litre LS1, not the 6.0, but my car also has a 5.7, and a carburetor. Just wanted to share my joy of the first kill for my Caprice a 2004 GTO!
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