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Posts worth keeping TLP | by rebill | 2012-01-22 00:53:26 |
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Shadowsystems vs ... | by rebill | 2014-08-11 20:07:54 |
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... A policeman having a bad day | by rebill | 2020-07-23 21:10:32 |
| The truely funny thing is... |
by ShadowSystems |
2020-07-24 13:16:21 |
The low end, off the mark, initial accelleration was actually pretty good in the thing.
As in it could smoke the tires & LOOK like it was leaping off the deck of an aircraft carrier's catapult launcher...
Right up until it reached 10MPH, at which point it turned into a snail with arthritis.
The "granny gear" could tow a largish trailer, but 2nd gear forced the car to shamble along like a shuffling zombie even with no load at all.
Because I learned to drive on a manual transmission, I use the left edge of my right foot to press the brake, the right edge of my right foot to keep the gas going, the better to keep the car from stalling.
In the Pinto (an automatic transmission) this meant that the car was "straining at the leash" so to speak & merely required me to roll the foot to the right, let go of the brake, & off it would go.
Sitting at a stop light one day some guy in a muscle car pulled up beside me & did the "vroom VROOM" thing to challenge me to a race.
The girl in the passenger seat took one look at my Pinto & scoulded the hell out of him for taking such a cheap shot.
When the light turned green I rolled my foot & squealed the tires as if about to take off like a shot.
This prompted HIM to put his foot to the floor & roar after me.
Except I stopped accellerating even before getting through the intersection, leaving him to blow past me as if I were standing still.
At which point the COP waiting in the shopping center parking lot for just such racer junkies lit up the lights & siren, pulled the guy over, & gave him hell.
The girl was busy slapping the s4 out of the driver as I mosied past, pointed, & laughed.
"Ha Ha! You got suckered by a PINTO!"
=-D
Yes it was childish & petty, but the look on their faces when a POS Pinto that looks like it's one carborator wheaze away from falling into a pile of bolts, ROCKETS off the line like a f4in drag racer...
only to cease being one as suddenly as if it had just deployed a drag chute with 10x the stopping area...
to let them zoom past the waiting cop (did I mention I knew the cop was there? *Giggle*) made the gesture even funnier.
How did I know about the cop?
Because there was a gas station on the corner, I worked at it, & Mister CHP was a frequent visitor to the station to use our drinking fountain.
He'd go after speeders & light runners, so hearing him chirp the sirens & see the wig wag of lights was a common thing.
Knowing there would be a cop somewhere nearby meant my tempting said racers to race themselves into a ticket was just icing on the cake.
I'd say I was going to hell for such things, but Satan has a Permanent Restraining Order out on my a3 & I'm not even allowed in the lobby (Limbo).
=-)P |
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