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

[Mike Fitton]

DS2500 = absurdiclicious

-Cheers!
Mike
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pkrasusky at ups.com wrote:
> 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.
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