About a month ago, I was driving home around 10pm in my wife's '08 Uplander mini van. 249 hp, 5600 pounds. In front of me, this dork in a '08 Honda Civic si pulls out, stereo booming, coffee can pipe rasping. BIG sticker across the back window-"Barely Street Legal" oh yeah, its on. I come up along side of him, I was just driving at this point, not trying to pass or whatever. He leans on it, so just punch it. The 3.9 V6 is drive by wire and it has about a .5 second lag. My van takes off, it runs pretty well. He punches it, my bumper is about 2-foot in front of his. it stayed that way for about 1\2 mile, he couldn't pull on me for anything. A car up ahead about 1\2 mile hits the brakes to turn, and we are doing about 90, so I pop the brakes, safty first..... this retard loks at me and waves as he speeds by like he smoked me. seriously? I hit the brakes. he flips me off as he heads down the road. oh hell no. I change lanes and punch it. :3gears: I blast by this turd wagon at about 105. he got it when he saw me coming, but it was too late. little Civic just got smoked by a grocery-gettin' kiddie hauler. :idea2: I got home and checked the specs- my van- 240 hp, 5600 pounds his Civic- 197 hp, 2954 pounds. I guess it really is "Barely Street Legal"
Ha ha! I believe it's Barely Street Legal as it's too slow to be on the road! Poor kid's ego is bruised now with getting whooped by a minivan, lol
One thing I've noticed about most of the fart can ricers around here is the amount of wear in their engines.The kids rev them to 6 grand even at very light throttle just to hear what they consider beautiful noise.Full throttle ,which usually doesn't result in much more acceleration, is barely more noticable than part throttle.But the smell out the tail pipe goes up proportionally.It is what I call the sickly smell of near motor death.They usually don't burn oil so much as seem to be followed by a cloud of impending doom.The last time I noticed the same kind of hot,worn out smell was over 40 years ago in my rural hometown when the same local old clapped out 5 ton Chevy or Ford gas powered trucks worked their guts out, driven for years on end hauling huge loads of peas,beans or apples from farm fields to the food processor where I worked in the summer.They earned their worn out status,a lot of these ricers are beat into submission in the space of only a few months or a couple ofyears. Anybody else noticed this?? Rod
i have had my fair share of ricers on the highway also but never get that smell because i am always looking at them in my rear view. i do ussually get the finger thou when i let up and they pull along side and flip me of i just laugh i have a little sign i keep within hand reach that says OWNED it reallt pisses them off. :laugh:
thats funny. I think I may get one made the next time I see one of those custom vanity plate kiosks at the mall. "Owned by Buick" has a nice ring to it.
ya it does but i will forwarn you you will get alot of middle fingers with it i usually return with a huge grin and a :TU:
You know that dude is telling everybody to beware of a minivan with a nitrous injected blown twin turbo V-tec. There's no way anything else could have beat him!:3gears:
I'm going to bet that he never says a word. Or if he does he says that he smoked a guy in a mini van. His selective perspective on the world that makes him think he's got a hot car probably makes him think that he was able to pull ahead hard all the sudden when the mini van had to hit the binders. If he sees that mini van on the street again he probably won't make eye contact and will avoid sitting at the intersection with it. I would sell or re paint my car if I got smoked by a mini van in my "street racer".
