Jim Thompson said:
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We'll test it in Europe ;-)
Well can you arrange to do it next week please, I fly to Boston in the
morning, back next Saturday, much appreciated.
Boston? Poor bastard. What a piss hole of a city.
I have to agree, the worst thing about it is that as soon as you hire your
car you are really thrown in at the deep end and it's frantic until you get
out the other end of the Sumner tunnel where they extract money off you for
the privalege of being stressed.
Don't you know about Boston cabs? Sit in the middle of the back seat
and hold on to both door armrests ;-)
Or did you mean a rental car? Having spent four years driving in
Boston plus forty-plus years of Arizona high-speed driving, it's me
that plays the bluff game... there's nothing more fun than
intimidating a Boston driver.
I just aim my car at them, floor it and watch 'em scramble ;-)
They tend to scramble too (at least in other areas then Boston) when you
point the car at them, bring the engine speed to around 6500 RPM, and
sporadically release the clutch while in 2nd gear..... Especially effective
when you fish tail the car down the street.
6500 rpm eh? I hope at some point your engine decides to
sporadically exploded when you step load it like that.
Doh!
Back in the days of real race cars activities like this resulted in
taffy twisted U-joints, until the big mopar units get installed.
Still nobody in their right mind spools up that far to dump a clutch.
It must be a shit box too, cause real motors don't get up in those
rpm ranges without some special valve train gear. If it is a shitbox,
I hope the whole fucking car explodes.
A rat motor has "mountains of torque" as the old racers used to say.
One could barely crack the throttle and light up the tires with ease.
One could be going down the street at 40 and not even feather the
clutch, just merely tromp the gas, and the car still lights 'em up as
if it were standing still.
The shitboxes out there today barely compare, and the mentality of
the drivers is such that every motherfucker in this country with a
modified car that operates it on the public roadways should have to
pay an extra $100 registration surcharge every year to cover for the
stupidity that typifies this "class" of driver.
Same thing for big trucks that are modified from stock, and those
little shitbox, gang banger trash cars that are "lowered" that is
some of the ugliest shit to ever hit the planet. The mexican twit
that thought tires outside the wheel wells of the car body "looks
good" should be shot, along with any white **** that thinks so as
well. They are fucking retarded, and their modified trash mobiles
tear up the road surfaces and are very unsafe suspension wise.
