Do you guys get this a lot?
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From: Parrish FL
St. Jude Donor '06 thru '26
Blah Blah Blah.
One night before our local Corvette club meeting at Golden Corral one of the young waiters came into the room( some of us get there early). He asked who raced corvettes? The other guys pointed to me across the room.
This guy charges over to me and says, " Vipers can wipe up Corvette." No small talk, No hi, no nothing.
I said, Ok Cool, So you race vipers?
he said" um no'
Then you drive vipers? um no
DO you OWN a viper? um no
Well when you OWN a Viper an RACE A Viper then WE CAN meet at VIR. Untl then please take these dirty dishes away.
One night before our local Corvette club meeting at Golden Corral one of the young waiters came into the room( some of us get there early). He asked who raced corvettes? The other guys pointed to me across the room.
This guy charges over to me and says, " Vipers can wipe up Corvette." No small talk, No hi, no nothing.
I said, Ok Cool, So you race vipers?
he said" um no'
Then you drive vipers? um no
DO you OWN a viper? um no
Well when you OWN a Viper an RACE A Viper then WE CAN meet at VIR. Untl then please take these dirty dishes away.
Melting Slicks
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From: McKinney Tx
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St. Jude's Donor '05
Its happened to me a few times. The guy is driving the wifes car because his 750hp corvette is in the shop. I's ask where he races at and he would hymn and ha about this track or that track in a different state because no one would race him in Texas. Who knows and who cares
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From: Plano TX
1983 Model Corvette was the last year of the C3 . Chevrolet offered a 10,000 horsepower option listed as a ZL-4.. There were only 3 made.. My dad has 1. I own 1 and my brother has the 3rd ... These are so rare we don't drive them or show them to anyone
Last edited by David426; Dec 22, 2006 at 02:18 PM.
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It isn't just Vette owners that this happens to.
Any decent ride .. an you get the chuckleheads now an then 'well, I can blow yer doors off from a 60mph roll' -look at doods car, it's a frikkin pontiac Le-Mans with a 326, single exhaust out the back, one wheel drive wonder (saw him tryin to do a do-nut in the lot earlier) ..
..or you get the 'rider' .. loudmouth goin on and on about the car he/she is 'riding' in ..and the *owner* is cringing because he *knows* his beater, runnin on 7-cylinders, burnin oil scrap heap is no match for what yer drivin.
I'd pin 'em down on the spot an make 'em look like the idiots they are.
'Let's go .. 60mph roll no problem .. figure I'll be at 135 by the time yer junker gets the carb fully open, we can both punch it as we pass under this bridge on the freeway, and race to the next bridge'
'No?' .. Why not? Ohhh .. you're low on gas, here, I'll even pay for 5 bucks of what .. 87 octane for that scrapheap motor?'
-Frank (I was always a bit hard on the idiots.. now an then a purty good race would happen, after goadin 'em into showin up at LACR on race day .. but that was rare)
Any decent ride .. an you get the chuckleheads now an then 'well, I can blow yer doors off from a 60mph roll' -look at doods car, it's a frikkin pontiac Le-Mans with a 326, single exhaust out the back, one wheel drive wonder (saw him tryin to do a do-nut in the lot earlier) ..
..or you get the 'rider' .. loudmouth goin on and on about the car he/she is 'riding' in ..and the *owner* is cringing because he *knows* his beater, runnin on 7-cylinders, burnin oil scrap heap is no match for what yer drivin.
I'd pin 'em down on the spot an make 'em look like the idiots they are.
'Let's go .. 60mph roll no problem .. figure I'll be at 135 by the time yer junker gets the carb fully open, we can both punch it as we pass under this bridge on the freeway, and race to the next bridge'
'No?' .. Why not? Ohhh .. you're low on gas, here, I'll even pay for 5 bucks of what .. 87 octane for that scrapheap motor?'
-Frank (I was always a bit hard on the idiots.. now an then a purty good race would happen, after goadin 'em into showin up at LACR on race day .. but that was rare)
