[V8] Was: Re: V8 My Top Speed Story....but it wasn't....

[Coleman, David]

Hah. Roger's true colors start seeping through!

Good stuff. 

Plus, if you can't give the occasional pony car a wake up call, we may as well be driving subarus. 


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David A. Coleman
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Sent: Sat Mar 10 07:09:14 2007
Subject: [V8] Was:  Re:  V8 My Top Speed Story....but it wasn't....

Ok, ok, ok.  It wasn't my top speed story.  That story involved a 928S4
incident, and I might tell that one some time, too.  Especially since I was
waaaaaaaaaaaaay old enough to know better.

But my favorite almost top speed, RACING story took place in Big Spring,
Texas.  I was a fairly new Air Force second lieutenant and was attending
pilot training in Big Spring.  My daily driver, love of my (automotive) life
and still one of the best cars that I have ever owned, was a 1967 BMW 1600
Alpina.  

There weren't many 1600 Alpinas.  Sixteen is a number that I heard once.
What BMW did was to awaken the camshaft slightly, put some sway bars
underneath, and slap a pair of Weber DCOE 40mm carbs onto the side of the
already potent 1600 four cylinder engine.  (Incidentally, the 2002 came
along a year or two later but not until it became the Tii did it run with
the Alpina.).  

Anyway, I was minding my own business driving back to the base from a trip
into the village.  I was stopped at a traffic light...no traffic on the road
actually, but along side of me was stopped some kind of Chevy...Chevelle,
maybe, sitting there lumping and bumping with LOUD stereo and some good ole
boys yelling and pointing fingers at my funny looking little light gray car.
Well, I suppose to west Texas townies who had never been further than
Midland, the BMW 1600 looked like a little innocuous shoe box.

The light turned green.  The Chevelle let out a roar, and rose up on its
front suspension and the rear tires started to screech.  

I popped the clutch at about three grand on the tach, and left. Just LEFT.

The road was four lanes at that point, and was almost a mile long before a
sweeping right hander, with the road narrowing to two lanes I seem to
remember.  At eighty, I let completely off the gas, and about ten lengths in
my review mirror I could see the Chevelle coming on like a freight train,
passed me like a bullet and disappeared around the sweeping turn ahead.
Meanwhile I slowed all the way to a sedate twenty five, which I think was
the real speed limit.

About half a mile beyond the curve, I came upon a Texas Ranger cruiser with
lights flashing, sitting behind that loud roaring Chevelle, somehow kinda
quiet at that point.  There were three good ole boys spread out along the
passenger side of the car being patted down....

Ok, ok, ok, ok....I'll admit it:  I waved as I went by.  Not proud of that
either.

I actually shudder to think what would have happened to me, had I been the
guy stopped that morning.  I still can hear my squadron commander and the
wing commander yelling.   

I do not condone racing on the public highways.  Not in my 928S4 nor any of
my V8's have I ever raced with anyone...well there was that one time in the
928 when those punks in the Mustang......

But those good ole boys in Texas.  Well, they NEEDED it, don't you
understand?  THEY NEEDED IT!

And I did it all without a friggin' banglebutt!

Roger 

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