[s-cars] //S8: 0 - Mk1 ZO6: 1

[pkrasusky at ups.com]

Morning Germs-

Funny encounter commuting home last evening.  Thick but moving traffic
nearing my hometown, cruising innocently in left lane @ 71 maybe, go by
a blue Mk1 Z06 coupe in middle lane that's just trodding along.  Good
looking car, I dig them and that color personally.

Soon as I'm next to him I see the window go down, and a kid (looks like
Brian Weldon for some reason) start making all these goofy 'what up
homey' type faces and gestures at me - then proceeds to revrev drop gear
and start surging.  HA!  *Where* we going here exactly, we're all pretty
jammed up 4 lanes wide, I wonder.  Genius.

I let him blast in front of me, we cruise a few miles.  Funniest is I'm
on the phone at this time with Chris Hawkins chatting about all the
madmadmodz he's done and will be doing to me old beast.  I see traffic
dissipate ahead and inform Chris - "um - sorry I'm gonna have to get
back to you as I'm about to lay the smack down with this Z06" - sorry
Chris.

He stomps and snaps a downshift way before I get to 3rd and he's off but
I'm keeping him 'there' ahead.  Car clogs him, I approach, car moves
aside this time I'm ready for the poofboomsquat ahead.  4th gear @ 100
cruise with a perfectly timed stomp.  POS's them things are, I'm able to
time my WOTstomp very easily as the thing - rolling @ 100 mind you -
does this funky squat / twist / step-to-the-left in front of me as he
drops a gear.  HA!  Sweet refinement / engineering there not.

Game time.  Through 4th he's pulling a length or 2 but I'm still
'there', into the middle areas of 5th he's not pulling and I'm not
gaining.  His sack shrivels and I go by him.  I lift, and wait.  And
wait.  He's now @ 65, back into middle lane - then over to the slow lane
and now will not come ANYWHERE near me.  

HA!  Humbled by a Luxobarge... I'm guessing he bet on wailing on me
significantly harder than that.

I exited with a quick up-thumb out me window, which he actually returned
- sheepish grins on both of us.  Good stuff.

Unrelated, last week I went by a neuZ06 on my way home, again in slow
lane and doing like 58.  Silver.  As I went by him then gazed at in me
mirror - gotsta say...  that thing looks downright frickinfabutastic on
the road it does!  Veryvery sinister looking car, great stance.  I've
yet to whirl either a Mk1 or 2, really would like either opp some day
butofchoorse - verymuch looking forward to that I am.

An now for something, completely different:  a man with 3 buttocks.  I
installed new OE front Brembo rotors last night with Ferodo DS2500 pads.
OMG pedal feel and brake action is absurdicle.  Yeahbaby yeah.  Gotta
love brake installs that take longer to jack up and remove wheels than
does the brake job.  In and up and down and out in < 30, sweet.

-Paul with a tape recorder up his nose K.