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Old Nov 6, 2009 | 03:44 PM
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I was on my way home from school today and little did I know a couple of cars back was the 03 Mach 1 that I see in my schools parking lot every day. I'm in the front sitting at a traffic light and I start to casually drive off, and I see him peeking over to see. Like an *** he weaves in and out of cars to come right up on my *** accelerating and slowing back down... Repeatedly. So at the next light, he's nosing his bumper closer and closer to me. I take a quick peak around, turn off my traction control and casually drive off. I'm at 3000rpm in first and he's literally on my bumper when I floor it. I slam it into second, look back and he's slowly falling further and further back. Chirped third and looked back again, car lengths turned into bus lengths... Then fourth, again I looked back and those bus lengths turned into city blocks. I slow back down and of course he does "the fly-by" and doesn't look at me for the rest of the way into town.

Are these overrated and aren't really that quick, or could this kid just not drive worth a ****?
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Old Nov 6, 2009 | 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by RikkiTorment
I was on my way home from school today and little did I know a couple of cars back was the 03 Mach 1 that I see in my schools parking lot every day. I'm in the front sitting at a traffic light and I start to casually drive off, and I see him peeking over to see. Like an *** he weaves in and out of cars to come right up on my *** accelerating and slowing back down... Repeatedly. So at the next light, he's nosing his bumper closer and closer to me. I take a quick peak around, turn off my traction control and casually drive off. I'm at 3000rpm in first and he's literally on my bumper when I floor it. I slam it into second, look back and he's slowly falling further and further back. Chirped third and looked back again, car lengths turned into bus lengths... Then fourth, again I looked back and those bus lengths turned into city blocks. I slow back down and of course he does "the fly-by" and doesn't look at me for the rest of the way into town.

Are these overrated and aren't really that quick, or could this kid just not drive worth a ****?
nice kill--- yeah machs are alot quicker on the internet than in real life. but a good mach with a good driver should be close-ish till about 60 mph. then it's over.
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Old Nov 6, 2009 | 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by big hammer
nice kill--- yeah machs are alot quicker on the internet than in real life. but a good mach with a good driver should be close-ish till about 60 mph. then it's over.

no way man! get your blinders off! its a drivers race!




i love this ****.
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Old Nov 6, 2009 | 04:19 PM
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nice work, I too had someone try and race me today.. no one ever wants to line em up tho

all well, LS1s FTMFW
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Old Nov 6, 2009 | 06:09 PM
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I think if "bus lengths turned into city blocks" he probably let off before you did. In a ~1/4 mile drag race, a Mach 1 will typically be 2-4 car lengths back. 1/8 mile is quite a bit closer. But good kill... this should be in the Kill Stories section though.
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Old Nov 6, 2009 | 11:21 PM
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if he was in the same lane I wouldn't even call it a race to be honest
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Old Nov 6, 2009 | 11:58 PM
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Originally Posted by thunderstruck507
if he was in the same lane I wouldn't even call it a race to be honest
After I put it into second he was in the right lane.
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