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Old Aug 12, 2007 | 01:54 AM
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It had been a while since I go out cruising around, but since my car's been up and running, I decided to put the top down and take the TA out for a spin and a bite to eat... I didn't know so much could happen in one hour. Don't bother reading if you wanted something quick. Cliff notes are at the bottom.

*sigh* Miami... Well...



Checkers: So I head to the local Checkers since there are no speed bumps and I could eat outside. There is an Aston Martin DB9 leaving as I get in that gives me a nice WOT in neutral or something. I mention that because it will come into play later.

When I park, I get a bunch of odd looks from what looked like 10 Civics or something. I wondered whether I should go talk to them, but as I begin listening to them talk, everyone is talking only Spanish and saying "pinga" about 30 times per minute. Not to be judgmental (I'm 100% CUBAN), but the last straw was when a red 350Z drove in and some dude starting screaming at him in Spanish, "PEEL OUT," like fifty times. If police showed up, I didn't even want to be seen with them. I ate by myself and drove off...

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Black Corvette: A black C6 passes me a block or two by the Checkers... He doesn't rev and neither do I, but he's going much faster. I see the Vette far ahead in the distance coming to a stop along with an old truck behind him... As I start passing both of them, they had both come to a complete stop, the Vette driver scrambling out of his car. As I drive past, I look right in front of the Vette to see if I saw an animal or something that might have made them stop, but the road is completely clean, and there are no signs of an accident. With the top down I hear screaming while ahead of them so I look back.

In my rear view mirror, I see that somehow he pulled the driver out of the truck and body slammed him... They begin wrestling and beating the **** out of each other in the middle of this residential street with cars moving around fast, nowhere near an intersection... I couldn't believe what the hell I was seeing.

I keep moving forward...




Aston Martin I end up running into the same beautiful, black Aston Martin again by total coincidence... He does a little flyby on me, so I don't even bother looking at the dude again... However, later he slows down and I get stuck behind him... He picks a bad lane with someone turning, and I move up the ladder in a good lane going nice and slow. I make my turn and he turns behind me...

At about 40 mph, I'm about to shift to fourth and he guns it next to me loud as ****. Half a car length ahead of me already, I just hit the throttle instead, staying in third planning for a quick blast, noticing he got a damn good jump on me. I peg the boost gauge and hit 7k rpm, and then I put in fourth, ready to hit the gas. Glancing back, I see I had put like 7/8 car lengths already going 100 mph. I take it right back out of fourth and hit the brakes... There's absolutely no point in continuing. He was WOT, yet I did pull him HARD in just one gear... Thought he had more... I love having gone back to 3.42 gears.

Either way, he rolls up to me nice and SLOW and looks at me in shock... I give him a thumbs up and he does the same, shaking his head like, "WTF just happened to me???" Good vibe, not too cocky. I smile and drive off.




Good night fellas. This damn city is always an adventure.

Cliff notes:
1. Accidentally attended a car meet.
2. Witnessed an *** beating in the middle of the road.
3. Smoked a new Aston BAD.
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Old Aug 12, 2007 | 02:07 AM
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sounds very interesting!
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Old Aug 12, 2007 | 02:14 AM
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sweet!******* sweet! smoking the aston is the best part but the *** beating made me laugh.what kind of power are you putting to the ground in that thing ? excellent kill man!
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Old Aug 12, 2007 | 03:01 AM
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nice kill
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Old Aug 12, 2007 | 03:34 AM
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Sounds like a helluva night
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Old Aug 12, 2007 | 11:02 AM
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I enjoyed the way you told the story Sounds like a good night
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Old Aug 13, 2007 | 03:35 PM
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Thanks!

Yeah, I looked up the stats for a DB9, they are heavy as **** but they got some power too.
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Old Aug 13, 2007 | 04:23 PM
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Interesting story man. Sounds like a typical south florida night. lol. Watch out for those vette dudes, they all can fight. especially the 60+ year olds. lol.

Can't wait to check out your car at some point man. Maybe next time they all meet up on our local site, i'd like to check it out.

peace out.
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Old Aug 14, 2007 | 08:30 AM
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How you been dude? Good to hear from you!

Crazy huh? Typical SFL!!! There's some angry ******* people driving around here! The guy looked to me like a solid 40 year old, dressed nicely too... Not in a bad part of town either!
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