As a poor country boy, I grew up in a small town, pop 3000, with a few imports. My 89 Nissan Maxima, bone stock 5spd, was in the top 10 fastest cars. Next to the europeans owned by the doctors and a couple of Supercharged Mustangs and T/A's, from various year models. I would have rich kids show up in their new integras and give stories about how they would stomp one of the top 9 cars in town. Then after a short race where I would stomp them by 2 cars, they would say how cool my car was and how slow domestics were. From that point on I came to a realization. If you car is truely fast, be it domestic or import old or new, you know it, and you will only race on a track, with buddies, or when you see another truely bad@$$ car that you think you can keep up with. When your car is truely slow you try to make it look and sound like an insect from a Japaneese monster movie, and punch it at every light, even if their is a cop next to you, and tell your friends how bad you smoked Porsche Turbo in the lane next to you.
You have to give imports and sport compacts the credit they diserve. They tend to get better gas mileage, though in the HP/MPG ratio we have them beat greatly. Handling, they got us beat, hard- Take a Nissan 240sx bone stock against a T/A with 0.90g suspension on a back windy country road, and the 240sx would make it out minutes before the T/A could make it alive. And know that a guy in a civic is less g@y than a gage"
As a poor country boy, I grew up in a small town, pop 3000, with a few imports. My 89 Nissan Maxima, bone stock 5spd, was in the top 10 fastest cars. Next to the europeans owned by the doctors and a couple of Supercharged Mustangs and T/A's, from various year models. I would have rich kids show up in their new integras and give stories about how they would stomp one of the top 9 cars in town. Then after a short race where I would stomp them by 2 cars, they would say how cool my car was and how slow domestics were. From that point on I came to a realization. If you car is truely fast, be it domestic or import old or new, you know it, and you will only race on a track, with buddies, or when you see another truely bad@$$ car that you think you can keep up with. When your car is truely slow you try to make it look and sound like an insect from a Japaneese monster movie, and punch it at every light, even if their is a cop next to you, and tell your friends how bad you smoked Porsche Turbo in the lane next to you.
You have to give imports and sport compacts the credit they diserve. They tend to get better gas mileage, though in the HP/MPG ratio we have them beat greatly. Handling, they got us beat, hard- Take a Nissan 240sx bone stock against a T/A with 0.90g suspension on a back windy country road, and the 240sx would make it out minutes before the T/A could make it alive. And know that a guy in a civic is less g@y than a guy in a v6 mustang.
Just remember next time you see a Road Knat dont stomp it until it gets really annoying, save yourself a few racing tickets.
You have to give imports and sport compacts the credit they diserve. They tend to get better gas mileage, though in the HP/MPG ratio we have them beat greatly. Handling, they got us beat, hard- Take a Nissan 240sx bone stock against a T/A with 0.90g suspension on a back windy country road, and the 240sx would make it out minutes before the T/A could make it alive. And know that a guy in a civic is less g@y than a gage"
As a poor country boy, I grew up in a small town, pop 3000, with a few imports. My 89 Nissan Maxima, bone stock 5spd, was in the top 10 fastest cars. Next to the europeans owned by the doctors and a couple of Supercharged Mustangs and T/A's, from various year models. I would have rich kids show up in their new integras and give stories about how they would stomp one of the top 9 cars in town. Then after a short race where I would stomp them by 2 cars, they would say how cool my car was and how slow domestics were. From that point on I came to a realization. If you car is truely fast, be it domestic or import old or new, you know it, and you will only race on a track, with buddies, or when you see another truely bad@$$ car that you think you can keep up with. When your car is truely slow you try to make it look and sound like an insect from a Japaneese monster movie, and punch it at every light, even if their is a cop next to you, and tell your friends how bad you smoked Porsche Turbo in the lane next to you.
You have to give imports and sport compacts the credit they diserve. They tend to get better gas mileage, though in the HP/MPG ratio we have them beat greatly. Handling, they got us beat, hard- Take a Nissan 240sx bone stock against a T/A with 0.90g suspension on a back windy country road, and the 240sx would make it out minutes before the T/A could make it alive. And know that a guy in a civic is less g@y than a guy in a v6 mustang.
Just remember next time you see a Road Knat dont stomp it until it gets really annoying, save yourself a few racing tickets.
I'll try to post some pics of the new ride soon!
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