[Shotimes] Are you guys dead!?

[Ron Nottingham]

Good kill Steve!  Just keep an eye out for that turbo, though.  As the kid
starts getting creamed by the really fast cars, he may start to wise up and
mod his turbo.  Those turbo Audi engines are fierce when modded.

Ron N. - Dalton, GA
90 SHO

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Tatro" <stevetatro_shotimes@att.net>


> Okay, story time.
>
> Saturday in beautiful Middletown, Ohio, I was on my way to the local
> golf course.  Was out on SR 63, a 4-lane, divided, 55mph highway, and
> came to a stop light, right beside a new silver Turbo Beetle that just
> blew by me.  The driver was the typical punk-looking kid, teenie
> girlfriend in the passenger seat.  The light is at a slight incline, and
> this kid thought it was cool to rock back-and-forth, revving his engine
> and letting it roll back a bit.  He was staring over at me, smerk on his
> face, almost scoffing at what he thought was a bright red family car,
> with yellow calipers peeking through 5-star alloy rims, and the chrome
> dual exhaust tips.  Was probably thinking it was some half-baked
> American rice.
>
> So, since he's staring me down, I decide to rev the engine.  Of course
> it didn't sound like much as it bounced off the 4k rev limiter, but what
> the hell.  I smiled back.  Put it back in drive and torque-braked a bit,
> anticipating the light.  Light turns green and we're off.  I get a
> couple of hops from the front tires, but they grip very quickly and I'm
> off.  Was probably about 5' in front of him at the 60' mark, and by that
> point the race was over.  I took it up to 80mph, at which point I was a
> good 3 car lengths in front of him and he finally backed off.  I slowed
> down to the speed limit, thinking he would come up to wave, or at least
> blow by me like that was going to prove something!  Nope.  He slowed
> down even further.  I finally eased down to 45mph, just to get him to
> come alongside so I could wave, but no way was he going to come
> side-by-side and acknowledge me.  Oh, well.
>
> I had to turn off about a mile further down the road, and as he finally
> went by me I waved out my sunroof.  No response.  Not sure if his little
> girlfriend told him to ignore me because she was embarassed for him or
> what ;^)
>
> Anyway, it's not the greatest kill in terms of powerful machinery.  I
> realize he probably wasn't the greatest driver of his manual tranny car.
> It was a fair start, and I kicked his ass.
>
> What makes a kill great, at least in my mind, isn't how fast the other
> car is.  It's how fast the driver of the other car *thinks* it is!
>
> And then they experience, first hand, death by SHO.
>
> Later,
>
> Steve Tatro
> Red/Black '93 with 163k miles
> Cincinnati, Ohio
> www.picturetrail.com/stevetatro
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
> [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Michael S Wojton
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 7:59 AM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Shotimes] Are you guys dead!?
>
>
> What!?  Only 4 messages from the time I went home last night to when I
> came back in this morning?  What's up with that?  Are you guys getting
> some semblance of a life!?  : )  I'm gonna have to stop coming in early.
> There has to be some innocuous topic you can beat to death!  Fuel
> mileage, clutches, Altimas... something!  Any- thing!!
>
>
> Mike Wojton
> '95 MTX
> Toledo, Ohio
> shomike@tri-statesho-svt.org
>
> K&N sans silencer cone
> SHO Shop Y-pipe
>
> "Avoid the clap." - Jimmy Dugan
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