Friday, October 29, 2021

Fun Drive Home

 On my way home from work today there was a "dude" cutting through traffic in his Acura TL. Car looked nice and had a sporty sounding exhaust, but the way the guy was driving it was kind of ticking off the crotchety old man in me.

We ended up side-by-side at a light and he sat there revving his engine. I, of course, took it as a challenge, so I staged up. Foot on the brake and throttle down just enough to sit on the stall of the converter. Light turned green and my 4000 pound Mercury Grand Marquis put a couple of car lengths on him. I backed off at 60 and he passed me.

That was when the F250 beater that had been behind me whipped over and passed me too. He rolled up next to the Acura and they took off. This was where I got to really laughing because that shit box diesel F250 gapped that Acura like it was sitting still...twice. Amazing what a well tuned diesel will do.

Have a great weekend.

1 comment:

Old NFO said...

Hehehe, love it! These kids 'think' they know it all and us old farts won't do anything... Yeah, right...

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