Weather finally cleared up today, so i took a drive to my friends house a few miles away. I'm still in the break-in stage
(510 miles and counting). Make a long story short my friend's neighbor has a ZO6 and was out shining it up. We started talking and exchanged compliments. He started saying that his car was the fastest thing on two wheels and how he is beating everybody on the road and so on and so on. By now i realize he is a narrow minded idiot-there is always bigger and better. So i asked if he had run into any vipers and he said not yet but that he could smoke anyone (ok, he just graduated to an arrogant idiot) and challenged me to a race. So i explained to him that the car was still in the break in stage, but he laughed and said i was afraid of losing.
Now he needed a lesson.
"Well' i said 'if you want to race i'll go home and come back with my ZR1." To which he replied "i'll be waiting".
We come back and the race is on: we go from a 20 mph roll, i pull away from him and when i hit second i'm gooone. no contest.
no mercy.
second race from a dig. he gets me out of the hole (i could never launch this car) and is about 2 cars in front, by third gear i catch him and stay next to him pulling away at will waiting for him to catch up and pulling away at will. We hit some serious speeds (a little over 55...).
We get back and he is like a puppy that has just been sent to his corner and just says 'WoooW. I didn't think anything could beat this thing" (his ZO6). All of the sudden his precious car is a thing. "Are the vipers faster than the zr1?" he says.
to which i replied "By a long shot." you should have seen his face.
I usually don't do this sort of thing, i respect all high performance machines and the people that drive them, but if anybody deserved it he did.
I just got my GTS 3 weeks ago and it's the best car i ever had.
It makes the zr1 look docile but looks can be very deceiving.
It just nice to know that from time to time i have something that i can fall back upon. Thanks ZR1 (84,000 miles and counting, i almost forgot and modified.)
(510 miles and counting). Make a long story short my friend's neighbor has a ZO6 and was out shining it up. We started talking and exchanged compliments. He started saying that his car was the fastest thing on two wheels and how he is beating everybody on the road and so on and so on. By now i realize he is a narrow minded idiot-there is always bigger and better. So i asked if he had run into any vipers and he said not yet but that he could smoke anyone (ok, he just graduated to an arrogant idiot) and challenged me to a race. So i explained to him that the car was still in the break in stage, but he laughed and said i was afraid of losing.
Now he needed a lesson.
"Well' i said 'if you want to race i'll go home and come back with my ZR1." To which he replied "i'll be waiting".
We come back and the race is on: we go from a 20 mph roll, i pull away from him and when i hit second i'm gooone. no contest.
no mercy.
second race from a dig. he gets me out of the hole (i could never launch this car) and is about 2 cars in front, by third gear i catch him and stay next to him pulling away at will waiting for him to catch up and pulling away at will. We hit some serious speeds (a little over 55...).
We get back and he is like a puppy that has just been sent to his corner and just says 'WoooW. I didn't think anything could beat this thing" (his ZO6). All of the sudden his precious car is a thing. "Are the vipers faster than the zr1?" he says.
to which i replied "By a long shot." you should have seen his face.
I usually don't do this sort of thing, i respect all high performance machines and the people that drive them, but if anybody deserved it he did.
I just got my GTS 3 weeks ago and it's the best car i ever had.
It makes the zr1 look docile but looks can be very deceiving.
It just nice to know that from time to time i have something that i can fall back upon. Thanks ZR1 (84,000 miles and counting, i almost forgot and modified.)
