Strange night
I went down to the local 1/8th mile track for a little test and tune runnin last night. Up comes this nice young high schooler fella I've seen before. We talk a bit about his launches and shift points. His whole family is there, except dad.
Anyway, we agree to line up and run. There are about 600 people there (gate lady said so) and on the first run I take him by about 4-5 lengths. Running a 8.78 at 89mph. Not pushing my rpms too much before each shift...just gettin down the track. We come back and talk about it and his mom (a nice "normal lookcin lady) slides behind the wheel of her son's Z28. He's trying to talk her into running! A few minutes later and we move off to the staging lanes...I get out to ask her a few ?'s and she seems good with everything.
She smiles to her son up in the staging area, who continues to talk mom and dad into buying some more mods for his car. He has a SLP catback, SLP Airbox, and modded Hurst shifter. and an ignition system/chip. Anyway, We run and Im trying not to blow her away because he asks me to be easy on her and I pull one of my best times . Darn don't you hate it when that happens, and she misses a 2-3 shift. Her time was a respectable 10.8 at 77mph, mine a 8.57 at 94mph. We get out and laugh it up.
She all pumped and wants to have another go! OK, you sure about this, and we jump in and get back in line for the 2nd run. Announcer dude catches on to it and tells the crowd that the kids mom wants another crack at the Cobra. I was having fun too.
Anyway, this time she takes off in 3rd, but d/s to 2nd really quick and then gets back into it and makes a decent run outta junk for a 9.97 at 80mph. We get back and all she wants to know from her son is if she beat Dad's time. He cringes and say's no mom. I thought she was gonna want to go again! I ran the son again and the poor kid has a R/t of 1.8sec. We laughed about that later with his mom who seems to be warming up to all this Drag Racing stuff. Telling me she had a Mustang growing up and used to run a few street races! If was a pretty cool time. And, I bet the kid gets a few extra $$'s in his allowance for mods and stuff.:burnout:
I went down to the local 1/8th mile track for a little test and tune runnin last night. Up comes this nice young high schooler fella I've seen before. We talk a bit about his launches and shift points. His whole family is there, except dad.
Anyway, we agree to line up and run. There are about 600 people there (gate lady said so) and on the first run I take him by about 4-5 lengths. Running a 8.78 at 89mph. Not pushing my rpms too much before each shift...just gettin down the track. We come back and talk about it and his mom (a nice "normal lookcin lady) slides behind the wheel of her son's Z28. He's trying to talk her into running! A few minutes later and we move off to the staging lanes...I get out to ask her a few ?'s and she seems good with everything.
She smiles to her son up in the staging area, who continues to talk mom and dad into buying some more mods for his car. He has a SLP catback, SLP Airbox, and modded Hurst shifter. and an ignition system/chip. Anyway, We run and Im trying not to blow her away because he asks me to be easy on her and I pull one of my best times . Darn don't you hate it when that happens, and she misses a 2-3 shift. Her time was a respectable 10.8 at 77mph, mine a 8.57 at 94mph. We get out and laugh it up.
She all pumped and wants to have another go! OK, you sure about this, and we jump in and get back in line for the 2nd run. Announcer dude catches on to it and tells the crowd that the kids mom wants another crack at the Cobra. I was having fun too.
Anyway, this time she takes off in 3rd, but d/s to 2nd really quick and then gets back into it and makes a decent run outta junk for a 9.97 at 80mph. We get back and all she wants to know from her son is if she beat Dad's time. He cringes and say's no mom. I thought she was gonna want to go again! I ran the son again and the poor kid has a R/t of 1.8sec. We laughed about that later with his mom who seems to be warming up to all this Drag Racing stuff. Telling me she had a Mustang growing up and used to run a few street races! If was a pretty cool time. And, I bet the kid gets a few extra $$'s in his allowance for mods and stuff.:burnout:
