mr_green
02-01-2004, 06:16 PM
I was heading down to the Strip with my wife, my dad was following behind in his 750. We were taking the interchange from I-215 to I-15 which is a long uphill right hand curve. I was thinking that my father was going to try some sneaky stuff and pass me on the on ramp so I down shifted to fourth and was waiting for him.
Out of the corner of my mirror I saw a set of HID's entering the turn at a pretty good pace. I said to my wife "what the hell is that? and imediatley I drop down another gear to third in anticipation.
As the lights reached about the back of my dad's bumper I went WOT. Third gear didn't last very long seeing as I was sitting at 4800 RPM when I punched it. I quickly shifted into 4th and glance over to see this gorgeous Silver E46 M3 slowly start to pass me. Oh, but wait a minute he only made so his front bumper was a few inches ahead of mine. Now we are both wide open throttle and no one is going anywhere, untill about 6000RPM at which point I begin to change the momentum enough that my wife is screaming "HOLY S*%# are you pulling on him?" I had started to inch forward just before I had to shift to fifth, but traffic was ahead of us and I had to hit the brakes.
The guy in the E46 changed lanes still WOT and when flying down the freeway. I tried to catch up, but I did not feel like traffic weaving with my wife in the car.
When we stopped my dad said that that he saw the whole thing and was amazed that I was able to keep up with the E46. My only regret was that we couldn't have kept going I think I probably would have lost in the end, but what a good run. :D
Out of the corner of my mirror I saw a set of HID's entering the turn at a pretty good pace. I said to my wife "what the hell is that? and imediatley I drop down another gear to third in anticipation.
As the lights reached about the back of my dad's bumper I went WOT. Third gear didn't last very long seeing as I was sitting at 4800 RPM when I punched it. I quickly shifted into 4th and glance over to see this gorgeous Silver E46 M3 slowly start to pass me. Oh, but wait a minute he only made so his front bumper was a few inches ahead of mine. Now we are both wide open throttle and no one is going anywhere, untill about 6000RPM at which point I begin to change the momentum enough that my wife is screaming "HOLY S*%# are you pulling on him?" I had started to inch forward just before I had to shift to fifth, but traffic was ahead of us and I had to hit the brakes.
The guy in the E46 changed lanes still WOT and when flying down the freeway. I tried to catch up, but I did not feel like traffic weaving with my wife in the car.
When we stopped my dad said that that he saw the whole thing and was amazed that I was able to keep up with the E46. My only regret was that we couldn't have kept going I think I probably would have lost in the end, but what a good run. :D