What kill are you most proud of?

[NJBuickRacer]

We all have at least 1 kill that makes us smile whenever we think about it, post yours here! My personal favorites lately in my Vette have been an '02 Viper GTS from a dig and a 427cid Camaro from both a roll and a dig:grin: I'll be posting some GS kills soon though.....

[wkillgs]

Corvettes....hehehehe....I 'killed' one with my modified '79 Turbo Regal!....must've been back in '88 or so. This Vette had a rear wing spoiler, tinted windows, and a custom license plate...'Roofman', I think it was....I love killing those posers....:laugh: :laugh:

[NJBuickRacer]

I can't stand those posers myself...I remember when they used to put the fake ferrari vents on the sides of those vettes and thought it was cool:Do No: I remember slaughtering an '87 Vette with my '70 Cutlass 455, he didn't know what was going on until it was too late:Brow:

[lesabre]

I beat a 99'-00' riced out checy malibue in Alexandria MN when i was in college. at midnight 3 stop lights in a row flash yellow Brawdway is the main drag and at midnight it turns in to a dragstrip.

Pat

[70 gsconvt]

My favorite kill was last year, a 328 Ferrari. He did jump me off the line, but by 60 mph, it was all over for him. Boy was he pissed!

[1970gsx]

Many years ago I raced a '69 Hurst Olds down at Front St. in Philly in the GSX. Raced and beat him twice actually after he made some carb excuse after the first race. Two rare cars going at it made that race memorable for me.

[69GS400s]

Ron (TufBuicks) in his 72 Stage1 GS, Larry (LARRY70GS) in his '70 Stage1 GS and I usually go for a REAL cruise after "cruise nite" ends late friday nite. We go down along the beach where not only is it totally desolate at 11-12pm, but its 3 lanes W I D E :Brow:

A few times we've lined them up next to each other and "Have at it"..... and before they chime in, I KNOW I have alot more moter than them but......

It is a SWEEEET thing beating two STAGE1's At the Same Time...... WITH THE TOP DOWN !! ....in another GS :moonu: :laugh: :laugh: :moonu:

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My second favorite Kill was in my RoadMaster Estate Wagon against some Riced out POS that was weaving in and out of traffic driving like a real idiot in Sun morning traffic. I had my 90# CHocolate Lab in the back of the car......

We catch a lite and he's revving it waiting to slingshot on the green - I cut a .500 lite, Pinned Mocha to the tailgate and pulled about 20 cars on them.

We stop at the next lite and his friends are HYSTERICAL laughing at the driver for loosing to a wagon.....Mocha is barking like a lunatic at all their commotion

I rolled down my window and said "My DOG says your car is Slow and that SHE could beat you for $50 bucks"

His friends practically rolled out of the car laughing so hard :laugh: :grin: :laugh:

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My sweeetest kill was last summer on the highway against a 427 Cobra Replica - we were both just cruising and found each other and both instinctively slowed down side by side to about 45 mph - I nodded to him, he grinned, and when I heard him go for a downshift I nailed it and put about 5 or 6 cars on him up to triple digit land.

We slowed and he was genuinely impressed and showed me so with lots of :TU: :TU: :TU:

[Leviathan]

My favorite was lightly pimped up mustang... body kit, nothing else. He had his hood up at the gas station when I pulled up, and was busy showing his girlfriend and a couple guys his "modified" engine. Being a late thursday and having just come off a 16 hour slog at work I was tired as hell.

When I went to pay the clerk was obviously just as tired. He was just getting ready to wrap up so I apologized for being his last fill. He replies... "that's ok, those idiots out there have been holding me up here for 20 minutes". I looked at my watch and it was 15 minutes past closing time...hmmm, I pay for my gas and wander out to the mustang...

"Hey, niiice engine man!"

"Yea, it's got everything special ordered from the factory"

"Wow"

Looking under the hood, it's a stock 5.0 with a K&N. So I figure it's worth some fun.

"...so what would this do against a regular car? It'll beat the hell outta a regular v8 in a Wagon huh?"

"Depends, what's in it?" (OK He was a little suspicious)

"It says on the side... ummmmmm a 4.9 litre... but it's a really fast Wagon, and 4.9 is almost your 5.0 right?"

So he runs in, pays for his gas and follows me out to the light in front of the station. There wasn't a car in sight, it was 11:15 so I figure a quick quarter won't hurt. Ridiculously easy kill, pulled a carlength off the line, then walked away. He turned off at the next light.

The reason I like this one? Next week when I walked into the station to pay it's the same attendant... he looks at me, looks out at the Wagon...

"No charge man..." :TU:

[Madcat455]

My favorite was against a early 92-94 Camaro... Had alot of work done to the motor, blower (vortex style), suspension upgrades. Man did that car hook, got me off the line but caught him in Second gear, pulled two buick lengths on him till the end.

I got the :TU: from him that day.

[skyphix]

Nothing in my Skylark... well... maybe a couple clapped out trucks on the highway...


With the STi... probably everytime someone in a (name car here) with a highly modified body and loud exhaust gives it a try. Most notably, a sky blue civic with white rims, blue tint, a cut to fit skyline body kit, Nissan 240SX headlights, and a 3" exhaust with a 5" tip ( :o ). The only engine mod? a 100 shot. Did he keep up, even using the nitrous? not even close.

People with F-Bodies and muscle cars generally give me dirty looks until they see the badges. Then I give thumbs up, and so do they.

Oh, by the way, everyone thinks they are fast when they are on the highway. That is where most of my "encounters" occur... even with stock Geo's and Hyundais :rolleyes:

[leo455]

My Favorite is in the post 2 for 1. The TA owner tried me three other times before he sold it. Each time it was 7-8 car links. Wouldn't really rather drive a Buick!

[Tufbuick]

[QUOTE]69GS400s said:

It is a SWEEEET thing beating two STAGE1's [i] At the Same Time...... WITH THE TOP DOWN !! ....in another GS :moonu: :laugh: :laugh: :moonu:




The sweetest thing Larry 70 GS and I do when Alan is out in front of us on a MIDNITE RUN, is to.............................Simultainiously flip our Brights up on his "MONKEY BUTT" so we can illuminate it to see where he is.

No valve seals make for a smokey run :Dou:

Hey Larry, is that a FULL MOON ...............or is that ALAN ????????

:moonu: MOON' :moonu:

[gotbuick]

At the 2001 BOP races in Bremerton I had the most fun I've ever had at the drags. During second round of eliminations I was singled out by the owner of a 68' 442 drag car. He was well known, in fact the track guys let him "pick his kill" as he sat off to the side while everyone else staged. So who does he pick on but me and my banana mobile.

Keep in mind this tubbed car does an awesome wheelie as he marches down the track to very consistent 10.30's. I was running 12.20's at the time and new I was dead when he pulled up to the water box next to me. Oh well I thought, at least I'll have a good view of his car catching me. He didn't disappoint. After a king size leap off the line. He was getting bigger in my rearview REAL FAST. The finish line was coming up quick and I actually felt like I was going too fast. So at the first light beam I lifted off the gas, knowing I was just a pinch ahead. The Olds went flying by at the line. I thought, well I lifted early, I'm out. I drove to the ticket window unsure, until I heard my wife yelling on the two-way radio, "You won! You won!!". The radio was breaking up so I still wasn't sure what happened. The gal at the time slip booth gave me a smile and a thumbs up when I got my slip..."W" in my lane!!! I ran a 12.280 on a 12.28 dial to his 10.33 on a 10.31 dial...OUCH!!!

All my Buick buddies were all over themselves on that run. When the high fives stopped I went looking for the Olds owner to tell him that that was alot of fun. To my surprise he loaded up and left for Oregon in all the commotion. You know I don't think he has been back to Bremerton since...:Do No:

[RACEBUICKS]

Kearney nebraska last year, I got a tubbed up parachute pack-in 440- challenger, I being nice said " hey it looks like a street car vs a race car today"

He replies " Streetcars dont belong at the track you should leave that car home"

WEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll !!!!

I told myself drill this dork its for his own good!!!!

I went up with a 10.60 on my car and threw down a .509 light and ran 10.62 and put him on the trailor!!! :spank: :spank: :spank:

Then me being me I went by his camp on my bike and said too bad about your race car it must be the street car comment my car heard you say!!!:rant:

Later!!!!!!!:3gears:

[MR.BUICK]

These are all very good kills:TU: I have a kill i love myself. I didn't even think it was worth posting up in the kill section, because he was lame and so was his riced out ford "Fiesta". The car and race was lame. I don't know how small of engines fiesta's have, but they can't be very powerful. Anyways, he had this fart-can muffler and these flunky looking decals, like "NOS", do ricers think stickers add HP?:Do No: Anyways, As im going down high street in my town, in front of me was this fiesta, going slow as heck, and he was going so slow, I decided to forget him, so i swerve over to the left lane and pass him, after all, it was a 25 MPH zone, and when i was behind him, I was doing 15 MPH. I decided to go around him and as i did, he sped up and tried to keep beside me, and I pushed on the gas a little more, and so did he, and i look down at the speedo,:shock: Im doing 40 in a 25 zone. A stop sign appears close by and i slow down and so does he. He makes me so mad, so i thought:"Lets see what that peice of crap can do besides be annoying". His car is a manual shift, as he revs the engine while it is moving, so at the stopsign, I look over at him and I throw the car into low range and he's looking amazed at what i just did, I don't know why. I decide to throw the accellerator 3/4 of the way down and I catch a little loose gravel and the car skids the tires a little:3gears: As I let off of it, i shift the car back into drive and slam it down again, and as I did i kept my eye in the rear-view mirror as well as glancing at the road ahead. I notice him getting farther and farther behind. I get to the second stopsign, and he is nowhere in sight. Get this: I seen him at walmart one day and he gives me one look and then walks away into the electronics section. I knew what he was thinking:laugh:

-Cody

[NJBuickRacer]

Some really nice non-rice kills here:TU: You guys have taken out some pretty nice iron, I'm starting to get the motivation I need to see if I can make my nailhead smoke the vette:Brow: I think the quickest steel-bodied nailhead GS runs 11.6 so I'll have my work cut out for me, but I think not ever building a nailhead before is going to help and hurt me at the same time. Help me because I will be trying to go in at a different angle than everyone else, and hurt me because I don't know what doesn't work for these motors yet.....Anyways, keep the kills coming, I am really enjoying this thread!

[GS464]

My most memorable was when I test drove my 70 GS 350 when I was buying it. I had my dad and my little brother in the car and walked all over a small block 4-speed Mustang with big tires and loud pipes. Now, my GS was stone stock right down to the skinny tires. My dad actually goaded me into running the guy.

Needless to say, stomping him made the decision to buy pretty easy. The hardest part was not letting the sales geek know how bad I wanted it!!

[436'd Skylark]

MY favorite Kill... Hehehe. I was fresh out of highschool. Actually, I was on my way home from school. I was driving the 84 T/A, 430, TH400, 3.42s, Dual Cherry bombed hoodless jackass mobile. It had a pronounced lope, down pipes to cherry bombs and nothing else. With Solid motor mounts, the car would sorta shake at idle speeds. Any way, I'm at the light, when this Z3 'vert pulls up. I was cocky as hell. He was an older guy with a young chick, a real prick. I look over at him, and he gives me this look like I'm some sorta redneck, the car was two tone at the time, so I guess I was a redneck :Do No: . At this point I throw some revs. I drop the TH400 into first, and load the converter a bit. HE looks all game, as he eyes the light... Its green, And I slam it wide open, The Bird rips the tires and shoots to 5500. I short shift it and it begins to hook and finally grabs. By this time his rear bumper is at my nose, but I just walk past him. I took second to 4500, and threw it drive, and went on my way. I destroyed him by about 8 car lengths. Natuarally I was out of gas at this point. I stopped at a station when I notice he pulls in. I pump the gas and he marches towards me like he is gonna hit me. This is were the cocky thing comes in, again. I stand as tall as I can, and give him the look, like, alright, we can do this again. He yelled at me for awhile, told me he was going to call the cops and all that fun stuff. I told him to grow up, and but a real car. He stormed off, Hopped in his Z3, and backed into a poll. ............ That was fun stuff

[Da Torquester.]

Last year here in Seattle at Pacific Raceways, I got paired up against a original 396 SS Camaro. The engine didn't sound very stock either. I figured the night would be over after that. He got me a the light by a car length. By mid track we were side by side. At the end I was ahead by a car length. :laugh: Very satisfying !!! John

[Greg Schmelzer]

Not really a kill, 'cuz I got beat. Kind of.

Here's the link:
http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32259

[69GSCAL]

436'd Skylark said: I told him to grow up, and but a real car. He stormed off, Hopped in his Z3, and backed into a poll. ............ That was fun stuff

He backed intoa pole!!!!! :pp :pp :pp :pp :pp :pp
I don't know what would have been better, kicking his @$$ in the race or watching the moron back into a pole.
Very nice!

[GranSportSedan]

a few years back i built a pretty decent 66 skylark. had a 455(with 340 valve cover stickers), sp th400, suspension tweaks, the whole works. the funny thing was the car looked bone stock on the outside and with my remote timing control i could advance the timing at a light and smooth out the idle a bunch. well i had taken the car out a few times on weekends but never really showed it to anybody, but every time this late 80's 5.0 would see me out cruising he would do his best to get beside me and throw a few revs my direction trying to get me to race him. my buddies used to tease me that my old Buick was no match for him and his heavily tweaked and stroked 5.0. one night i finally agreed to race him, we all went to a deserted industrial area and he and i lined up. he went thru the whole process of doing a burnout and i just pulled up to the line and waited. we went on the starters flashlight signal and i feathered the pedal to hopefully get a good launch. he dumped the clutch and was out by a car length almost instantly. i just kept pushing the pedal down a little at a time and once i was beside him i stabbed it to the floor and the secondaries opened and next thing i knew i was sideways and looking straight out my windshield at his passenger door. i let up and straightened it out and then hit it again and shot past him like a rocket. i beat him by better than 4 car lengths. when we got back to the big group that had been watching there were accusations of me using Nitrous and things of that sort. all the guys said there was no way a car could come unglued like that without some type of power adder. i opened the hood and let them have an eyefull. opened the trunk as well and then told them i was running a 3.36 gear and that my car weighed 3900 lbs without me in it. to this very day that car is legendary in town and last i heard the mustang guy was adding a turbo setup to his car.

Bob

[mechacode]

GranSportSedan said: had a 455(with 340 valve cover stickers)

There's your "hidden power adder" right there. :pp :Brow:

[455 SSleeper]

My favorite kill happened to me about a week ago. Myself and a bunch of my buddies were downtown in the parking lot of my dad's shop just shooting the breeze, and this kid we know comes pulling up in a 2002 corvette that he had borrowed from his older brother. He comes up to me and asked if I wanted to go out and race. I accepted, but felt kind of stupid because I really thought I was going to lose this race. All my buddies piled into a suburban and I jumped in my Buick-powered pickup with one friend to flag the race, and we headed out to our local race spot (small town..hehe). We have the quarter all marked out, so everyone in the suburban went to the finish line to witness the end. My buddy jumped out of my pickup, and I commenced my pre-race burnout. I ran thru all 3 gears on the line lock, and pulled up to the start. I stalled it up to 3 grand, and my buddy gave us the signal and we took off. I expected the vette to dust me off the start, but we were neck and neck. I hit second gear, and pulled about half a car on him. He grabbed a gear, and pulled about half a car on me, then I nailed third and just slowly pulled on him until the finish line. It was a really close race; I only took him by about a carlenth at the end. We went back to the shop when it was all over, and he made the excuse that he would have beat me if he knew how to drive the car better. :rolleyes: At any rate, still my favorite kill. And the best part is, he got beat by a pickup! :grin:

[Todd Borland]

The summer before last I ran a 69 440 Charger with my convertible with Dad along to spectate. He had BFG Drag Radials and I had my Goodyear street tires on so I had to baby it out of the hole, ended up taking him by 4-5 car lengths ( twice):Brow: This was a rematch from 10 years earlier where there were identical results.

[Damian Kolosik]

keep the stories coming there all good..

[GS464]

Mr. Schmelzer, that is about the best kill I've seen on this board. I think someone else said it best, He was trying to get away from that crazy man in the monster mobile. I laughed and laughed at that one. I would have given $100 to see that punk's face when he couldn't pull on you more than the holeshot! I'll bet he didn't tell any of his buddies that story! At least not the true version anyway. Great kill.

Rice kills are only fun when the kid driving is a jerk. The biggest problem with racing punks (I can say that because I was one a few, ok ok a lot of years ago) is that 95% don't know how to drive safely at high speed. I repearedly stomped all over this punk in what I seem to remember was an Altima. Cute little girl next to him. Just shamed him three or four times in about two miles. I'd slow down so he could catch up then waste him again.

When I got to my turn off, he never even slowed down. He was doing 70+ in a 45 when he blew by within a very few inches of the right rear of my wife's Formula Firebird. It isn't that he was that good, I saw his face in the side mirror and he was terrified. Took him a few corrections to get it under control and back into just his lane.

[Damian Kolosik]

yeah alot of them drive like idiots like my freind ive been in one of my freinds cars a few times when hes has raced and i got scared cause hes come within feet of hitting other cars and we were going around 120.

[Clarkie]

I don't have a kill that is related to Buicks, but that is only because I don't own one yet. This past September at Grand Bend Motorplex, in Grand Bend, Ontario, I raced a 1981 Camaro Z28 in my '85 GMC 1/2 ton. I remember the Zedder was a couple of cars ahead of me in the next lane in the staging lanes, and it had a very lumpy cam and sounded fairly serious.
We wound up running each other. I should mention that this was my first trip to the track in about four years, and it was the first time since I installed the 3.73 gears and Auburn posi. Anyway, he left me at the line, and was off. I started to pull on him, and caught him at about half track. I won by about three-tenths. I was pumped. My first win.
The coolest thing happened in the shut down area, the guy in the Camaro (who had already turned up the return lane) stopped and gave me the thumbs up! He instantly had my respect.
I wound up running a 15.19 quarter, almost a second-and-a-half better than four years earlier. I later ran my best 15.09 later that day.
Sorry to bore you with a non-Buick kill, but that was a special moment for me in my hotrod.

Thanks,

Brad Clarke

[bews3byme]

It happened in '96 on a 5 mile straight away. I was out in my slightly modified '71 Riv w/70-455, when I came apon two Mustang GTs who had just squared off and were neck-n-neck.
I came up behind them (had to let off the gas so to as not to push them along) but my wake must have moved them apart enough for me to split them,wave to them, and pass them.(maybe not to smart but it was funny)
The look on there faces was priceless.:grin:

[GSMAG]

In high school/college, my first car was a '72 Skylark custom, Silvermist. My senior year I rebuilt a '73 455 and put it in with a Stage 1 cam. I street raced a lot out on Abbott Drive and McKinley road. At some point I changed the open 2:73 to a 3:08 posi and put in a Crower cam and some Kenne Bell headers. I stuck with the Q-jet and had no chrome or show pieces on the engine...just the headers. Out on McKinley one night, I raced a '69 442 with a built 455. He had a 4:10 rear end and a 4 speed. His problem was he didn't know how to drive. He'd fry the tires for a while then hook up. I wasted him 3 times that night. We pulled over to check out each other's car and I popped my hood. I remember he kept telling his friend after looking at my car , " It's all stock....it's all stock." He didn't know that he'd been baptized by Buick power. In fairness to him...or perhaps the car...his car was faster than mine, he just couldn't drive it. That was one of the funnest nights of street racing I ever enjoyed. All of my friends were there and all of them were cheering when I came back in.

[Greg Schmelzer]

GS464 said:Mr. Schmelzer, that is about the best kill I've seen on this board.



Mr. Schmelzer??

I thought that was my Dad???

Next thing ya know, someone will call me "Sir!" I don't need the help feeling old. I get enough of that every time I stand up and it takes my belly almost 2 minutes to catch up!!!:Brow: :laugh:

[GS464]

Shucks Greg, I'm 44 and I feel the same way. About a year ago, I nearly slapped this punk right off a stairway for saying "Excuse me, Sir"! He was being polite I know and it may have been a bit rude on my part to knock him off the steps, but Geez! "Sir"?

Smart-aleky little brat. Oh. He was about 20 years old..... I figured after he hit the concrete about five feet below us, I could have outrun him.........HA!