Posted on 04/19/2016 2:10:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I was going to say, what an amazing coincidence. I crashed my Silver Shadow while going to the 7/11 for a pack of smokes...
Into a friends house, not merely into a wall.
Agreed. But those eye tie V12s make the Charger look like a HondaCVCC. The Lamborghini makes 660hp without blower. Madness to drive one in the city.
I wonder if he messed up his wedding hoodie?
It's something of a tradition for new Army lieutenants (at least the single ones) to invest in a sportier car after commissioning, so when I drove to Ft. Knox in my new Mitsubishi Eclipse for the Armor Officer Basic Course in 1991, I had classmates who also had Mustangs, a Dodge Stealth, IROC Camaros, etc., no Ferraris mind you, but for our economic class, some pretty peppy cars. The capstone exercise of the course was the "10 Day War," which put a bunch of lieutenants in the field for 10 days rotating through tank driver, gunner, loader, commander, platoon sergeant and platoon leader positions. We were the very last class to go through using M60A3 tanks which had huge sheet metal brake and gas pedals, which you had to stomp on as hard as you could just to get the thing moving, and in the case of the brake, slam as hard as you could with both feet just to get it to slow down.
Needless to say, after driving nothing but tanks continuously for 10 days and nights, and becoming fully accustomed to the accelerator and brakes of the M60s, the weekend we returned from the field was not kind to a number of the cars of my classmates. IIRC at least seven of my classmates had fender benders that weekend from either gunning the gas when a red light turned green or slamming on the brakes at a stop sign...
Have you met the Charger Hellcat?
Yikes. Never heard of that one. I stand corrected.
LOL
I’ve been there, sorta. In high school, I worked summers as a construction laborer. For a time, I drove a big truck with a clutch that was stiff as a board. You really had to come down on it. And sure enough, every day after work, I’d get into my ‘55 Pontiac with its automatic transmission, and SLAM my foot down onto the poor floorboard. :)
Some trivia for you...
The Japanese Zero, the best fighter plane in the early years of WWII. weighed around five thousand pounds, about the same as a modern day SUV. The Zero sported a radial engine that delivered 950 horsepower. Imagine an SUV with 950 horsepower, and you start to see what a daunting fighter the Zero was.
Me too. In H.S. I accidentally jammed the accelerator in my decade old ‘75 Pinto, and two days later nearly collided with the mailbox at the end of the driveway.
When I was in the service, was driving out on the Centerville Turnpike in Chesapeake with a light, wet snow falling. The snow from the road got churned up by my front wheels and started sticking to the throttle linkage on the engine-side firewall. I’d take my foot off the gas, but the pedal stayed where it was, until I gave it a little kick to break off the sticky snow. It worked great until the kick that bumped the gas pedal down STAYED down.
It was like a E-ticket ride at Disneyland watching the landscape spin around me and that big old phone pole...
But I missed the pole and came to rest with one rear wheel on the road and one front wheel on the far side of the roadside culvert. It was that wheel on the asphalt that got me impounded. Heh. But at least the got my car out of there.
Droooool...
My Pontiac G8 has 370HP, and is scary enough. I think that if I had 600+HP, I wouldn’t last a week.
People rag on the computer nannies, but they do seem to work, and that’s a good thing.
Yes, the nannies are OK. I have a 350 hp 370Z. If its a little wet out or I get too feisty, the computer takes over and tells me to grow up. Having the nanny take over when losing traction and starting to skid in a turn is an eerie feeling.
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