My son and I were in Vegas, during SEMA, walking down the strip to find dinner somewhere - a Lambo and a Ferrari stop in the middle of the street, side by side, let traffic clear in front of them, then they both light it up.
That was cool to watch and hear a couple super cars wind it up and let it fly.
I'm at a stop light back many years ago when two cars take off screaming and running through the gears squealing tires and smoke. My wife looks over at me and mentions that looks like my brothers 1964 Chevrolet Impala SS, 4 speed semi-drag car. It was.
It's special to see illegal drag racing when it somebody close to you.
I disappointed the hell out of a guy in a rhd Skyline Turbo a while back with my 82 Camaro...I don't think he thought the hood bulge meant anything.
Slippery wrote: Along comes the same Civic like the OP mentioned. Late 90s hatchback, riced out and looking like it was going to fall apart. It also had the lightened rear bumper with the round holes. Well, that berkeleyer had a rocket inside that car. I never even saw it, I never had a chance. My car a month or so back did a 12.3 @ 115 at the track. This guy had to be running high 10s or very low 11s. A few miles down the road, we stop at a light and get to chatting. It was a kid in his late teens maybe early 20s. Very cool kid. He had a worked over K20 in the car. Never underestimate those riced out Civics.
There are a bunch of riced out K24 Turbo swapped DX hatchbacks running around San Diego that could embarrass my worked over Viper from a stop. Hell there is a Turbo V6 hatchback with a motor out of a Pilot as well.
I can pick them out of the lineup by the wheels and tires they run but for most people it's just another crappy civic.
Occasionally I see the OP's Civic or similar at a light in town. Don't have any idea why they would think a gray-haired old man would want to race. Maybe because I drive a red Focus?
They will rev on me, so I rev right back. That usually gets them to calm down. Maybe the supercharger whine scares them?
i was on the way to the challange this past year and had a black 80's carmit and a nission of some type go screaming by in some type of street race at something in the morning.
Duke wrote: Most of my similar stories involve taching up like that and then leaving the line at a comfortable 1900 rpm while Derpy Doodle in his rice wagon screams off in a cloud of blowby smoke, tire-rub shavings, and body kit chips. More than once I've had the pleasure of seeing Officer Friendly flip on his lights and spoil someone's day in short order.
I do that all the time. Especially when some kid in a complete E36 M3box wants to run the Z06. For some reason, I find it funnier when I do it to people who should know better. One night I did that to some older gent in a new Evora. He was not very happy.
Two ricer boys pulled up next to me one summer evening a few years ago. Revved their fart can at my yellow Ram a few times, so I decided to shut them up... with a single rev from the 10-cylinder Viper engine under its hood. Sounded like a demented Tyrranosaurus Rex. They slunk away without a second look.
I think I have told this before but I was comming through the Aulston Brighton tolls on the Mass Pike an older 911 and I in my 924s are rowing through the gears in a very slow drag race trying to see who will get up to speed first. It is a battle of pride. Rear engine air cooled versus frount engine water cooled. As the two cars roared and the RPMs were reaching a fevered pitch and we were both reaching down to grab second gear we were neck and neck. Cresting a little rise we broke through the 40 mph threshold. The two old machines were now relying on the few torques left in them to propel them to the magical double nickle. The anticipation for both drivers was immense as the speedometers crept upwards towards victory that would bring pride and bragging rights to only one.
And just at that moment a black twin turbo 996 blasted by both of us as if we were standing still. The jig was up. I looked over at the 911 driver and we both just laughed. A bit down the road the 996 driver had slowed and we gave him the thumbs up and the three of us cruised together untill the rt 128/95 split where with a flash of the lights we all went our separate ways.
Dr. Hess wrote: My next project is the 2000 RAV4. I'm going to put a soccer ball sticker on one side of the back window and a stick figure family on the other. And a fake BOV, the cheesy-ist I can find. And this:
ive always dreamed of this, you can get a rav4 with awd and a stick so after the engine swap its basically just a tall celica all trac
I have two:
I was commuting to work on my 1125CR when I came upon a newer STi hatch doing the speed limit on a relatively twisty backroad. We get to a passing zone, and he slows WAY down, so I take the bait and kick it down a couple of gears to pass him. We both get on it, I get even with the nose of the car, shift to 3rd, and get back on the throttle only to have him go rocketing past me, shooting fire out of the exhaust when he lets off the throttle. I don't know what he had done to that thing, but the Buell runs mid 10s in the quarter mile- to this day that's the only car its' ever had trouble passing 
A while ago, some friends and I were cruising in an SRT4 swapped '87 Town and Country woody wagon (it has been posted here a few times) when a riced out, slammed, flat black, etc etc s13 pulled up next to us. He had his girlfriend in the passenger seat, we had 4 people in the wagon, and he didn't seem to consider us a threat, so we revved at him. His eyes got wide and he revved back and faced the light. When it turned green, he got us off the line, but then we went flying by in a mess of rev limiter and front tire smoke. At the next light, he wouldn't look at us, but his girlfriend was laughing her ass off, and so were we.
Awrite, I have 2 and I'll tattle on my ol' Paw. Freeway onramp in Montana, where 2 lanes merge to 1. No one around but the guy in the pickup hauling a 5thwheel in the right lane. The light goes green, and I give that Cat 3208 the beans comin off the line in our 36' Foretravel. Dude in the truck gets about a cablength in front of me and refused to back down before his lane ran out. I hadda lay off quite a bit to let him have my lane, what with his trailer and all.
In my Merc, and a P85D ran up behind me on a deserted road. We're doin about 40 and he goes for a pass. I decided for some reason to make him work for it. Showed him my tail lights, made the point that though those things really jump off the line, that are not invincible from a roll and slowed back down. He tried it again, I let him get to my door before putting him back in my mirrors. We had a nice chat afterwards, he says he is doing the P90 upgrade as soon as it's available, heh...
My old man's story is the best though. There he is at a light in his Saab Monte Carlo (yeah, 3cyl 2stroke and he wishes to hell he still had it) when his whole car started vibrating cuz a 427 SC Cobra pulls up next to him. So he revs it... RRRRIIINGG-ding-ding-ding-ding and the guys in the Cobra look over, astonished, giggle some and just sorta clear the cars throat some... and the ground shakes and the Saab near gets knocked over by jetwash. The light changed and Paw floors it and dusts off that Cobra all the way through the intersection before them other fellers could get in gear and go, with the passenger laughing his butt off, making rowing motions out the side, and then disappeared over the horizon. He says that Saab purred to itself all the way home, happy that it beat a Cobra off the line.
Ported RD-350 back in the day, rattle can yeller n black w/ no emblems. Had a little fun w/ that one against bigger machines.
Had a guy in a Honda Odditty rev at me while I was in my Miata about a year or two ago. I knew my place, and knew I could not win that race, so I just looked the other way.
People actually still street race?
No body wants to race my Fiesta. That's good.
I'd probably lose anyway.
I have a Saturn SL2. My brother has a 2nd gen Escort wagon. Mine is faster. I'm sure that would have been boring to watch. We might even have broken the speed limit a little bit...
I have a buddy who thinks his bright red "new edge" V6/auto Mustang is fast. Still waiting for the right time to embarrass him. I'm trying to get him to an autocross though. I try to avoid street antics.
fasted58 wrote: Ported RD-350 back in the day, rattle can yeller n black w/ no emblems. Had a little fun w/ that one against bigger machines.
I once had a Harley dude pick a fight with my bone stock 75 RD350. Long story short, the H-D guys act just like ricer boys when the get embarrassed.
I've had people rev at the DeLorean to try and get me to race with it. Yeah, sorry- at least with its current powerplant that car would potentially lose to my old SL2.
In reply to Ashyukun: Well, bring it out for a parade lap at our next autocross, I'm sure you'll be a "crowd" favorite.
My favorite one was the time this happened to me vs. a riced-out, non-turbo Eclipse.
My bone-stock Volvo 745 Turbo shut him down like nobody's business.
Inside my head, I screamed, "HAHAHAHA you just got beat by your mom's grocery getter!"
My funniest race had to be cruising home from work one night in 2003 in my dads 2000 Mercury Sable LS (3.0 duratec v6)
I rolled up on a riced out 98ish civic and neon that were racing each other. I pulled both of them from slow rolls 3-4 times before they quit trying
Aside from the junk HVAC controls on that car, I miss it. It was a blast to beat on. That sable surprised a lot of cars. My friend barely edged out that sable in his new 03 Nissan SpecV
There's a dead-end stretch of interstate where I grew up. About a mile stretch before it gets to an interchange, 2 lanes painted and 2 more lanes of shoulder space on each side. I'm in the Maverick coming up the first entrance ramp and there's a corvette on the interstate already up to speed, coming out of the park'n'ride/dead end/u-turn area. I decided to get in front of him, he decided to not let me. The Maverick only ran high 13's so either he was messing with me or didn't downshift, but I kept a nose ahead of him until I noticed I was deep into the shift light in 3rd (top speed by gearing was only 2 digits) and let off. He waved and went on his way. I like to think he didn't see that coming out of a plain green 4-door Maverick.
No one ever tried to race that car, really. But the bone stock Integra? Ricer fly-bys all the damn time.
When I was 19-20 I had a blast blowing away a ricer Civic in my Volvo wagon down a deserted road in the middle of the night.
A couple weeks later (on the same road) I tried to do the same to a Suburban who wanted to play. The damn thing smoked me. Later found out it was Bonito Santiago (MLB Catcher for the Padres at the time) in his blown big block. Didn't feel so bad getting chopped after that.
There is a kid at work that thinks his riced out Civic can beat my 9-3 Aero conv. He still has the stock 1.6 in it. This will never happen because I get off at noon and he doesn't leave work until 6pm. I ain't waiting around that long.
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