M Roady
03-20-2004, 01:08 PM
Coming home from Dawn of the Dead last night I notice an RX8 in some traffic (we have three lanes). There is some other stuff around. Some sort of exotic kit on what must have been a Beetle at one time, and a Gen 1 RX7 primered with some sort of messed up body kit on it. I'm not sure what either of them was trying to be.
The mutants exit and I end up stopped at a light in the center lane with the RX8 directly behind me. Sweet, empty road ahead. I accelerate a little quicker than traffic, he is in tow. I level off at about 50 mph in third waiting for him to pull alongside. He doesn't. Finally, he gets in the left lane and starts to pass. He is a couple lengths back and I see the light we are approaching turn yellow. To get stopped I would have had to hit the brakes hard, so I nail it at 50 mph in third. At that point I wasn't paying attention to him.
Exiting the intersection I look back and see he is gaining on me a little and still coming :eek:. I kept the right foot down and by the time I get close to the top of third I'm pulling on him pretty solid. I tap the brakes as we are approaching a car a little distance ahead in his lane.
I off throttled down to about 50 before we got to that car in his lane and tried to get in a thumbs up, but the RX8 driver stayed in the left lane a short distance behind me. Oh well.
He was a little quicker at first than I expected. He was coming forward when I expected him to be falling back, I was a little concerned. Maybe he gunned it before me, maybe he actually put out the effort to get into the correct gear.
Just a quick impromptu run. I think he saw me gun it when shallow in third and thought he could run past me. Nothing special.
The mutants exit and I end up stopped at a light in the center lane with the RX8 directly behind me. Sweet, empty road ahead. I accelerate a little quicker than traffic, he is in tow. I level off at about 50 mph in third waiting for him to pull alongside. He doesn't. Finally, he gets in the left lane and starts to pass. He is a couple lengths back and I see the light we are approaching turn yellow. To get stopped I would have had to hit the brakes hard, so I nail it at 50 mph in third. At that point I wasn't paying attention to him.
Exiting the intersection I look back and see he is gaining on me a little and still coming :eek:. I kept the right foot down and by the time I get close to the top of third I'm pulling on him pretty solid. I tap the brakes as we are approaching a car a little distance ahead in his lane.
I off throttled down to about 50 before we got to that car in his lane and tried to get in a thumbs up, but the RX8 driver stayed in the left lane a short distance behind me. Oh well.
He was a little quicker at first than I expected. He was coming forward when I expected him to be falling back, I was a little concerned. Maybe he gunned it before me, maybe he actually put out the effort to get into the correct gear.
Just a quick impromptu run. I think he saw me gun it when shallow in third and thought he could run past me. Nothing special.