Street races

[TheresGabe]

I'm walking away from a VERY high powered lunch, and the heir to the throne son of the owner of the company I work for (The largest Freightliner dealer in the US) says to me: "Hey, I ought to get a Festiva"... I looked at him, and said "Well if you paid me more, it'd be faster than what you are driving". We talked about my goal of having a 200hp Festiva at some point. Well we pulled out of the restaurant parking lot, and sure enough we get a red light together. I look over, and he's doing a wheels turning motion and starts nudging up on the line. I did my best, and had a pretty smoky single tire fire, but ultimately got SMOKED by his BMW X5M. Who'd have thought that I'd get so handed to me by a mere 555hp Twin Turbo 4.4l V8... I demand a rematch!

[kumalaba]

have you tried the new beetle turbo? i havent seen one or id be on it!

[M3NTAL]

Yeah well I'm not gonna say no...and that's why I my motor has 80psi in one cylinder..but I still won

[Grey Vw]

Puppy kicker. You know those GTI's are slow

[M3NTAL]

Street races

Killed a turbo Golf today

[Advancedynamix]

I do not need to look up Lowell, I am well informed of her history! Some of the best comet hunting has come out of AZ!

I told the wife a little bit ago that one of these days, I am going on a bomber run to AZ, just to mess with you. Show up all out of the blue with a bottle of scotch in hand and a festy ready for Firebird!

Lol, we have adult beverage hour (okay its several hours) after each event at the track. It's a lot of fun and a good place to hang out with a lot of great drivers and interesting people. Scotch is welcome!

the pavilions on friday nights is the only thing i miss about AZ... only time ive ever seen a McLaren F1 in person.

It's Saturday night, Lot 59 used to be friday, but that was shut down years ago. Was that McLaren copper colored by any chance?
When did you live out here JT? and when are you coming back for a visit? The pavilions are just as crazy as ever, especially when the auctions are in town. If anyone wants to come out for Barrett Jackson, just let me know. I usually get free tickets. Gotta see that in person at least once.
Oh, and so we get back on topic here, Phoenix has a huge legally challenged drag racing scene. I used to get paid to watch it every saturday night (I was a 3rd shift security guard at a building right by the finish line of the #1 spot in Phoenix all through college, talk about job perks!). When they would raid the drags, accident rates would skyrocket on the city streets on saturday night. They never seemed to report that, but I had a scanner in my security van so I kept track and it was a substantial increase. See, at the drags it was 2 at a time in front of sometimes a 500 or so spectators. The road was shut off from traffic and it was run pretty well. The city streets allowed the same throttle junky kids (and not so kids) to race hundreds at a time all over town (Bell Rd is a hot spot) with no traffic control and lots of variables. I never once saw anyone get hurt at the illegals, though there were a couple of mishaps and several gnarly bike wrecks. But, the city did let it go on for a long time. They knew it was happening, and they usually just raided it when the crowds were getting out of control. Those were good times, but I haven't been in years. Have no desire to bring Tweak up there, it was always a good place to get your car cased too. Didn't have to worry about the security van getting stolen, lol.

[M3NTAL]

The stang is a 95 with a 351W from a Lightning with Edelbrock Aluminum heads ran a 13.1 at the track a few weeks ago

its got more in it...its a 12 sec car he just needs more track time with it

[fastivaB6TG25MR]

the pavilions on friday nights is the only thing i miss about AZ... only time ive ever seen a McLaren F1 in person.

[scitzz]

I do not need to look up Lowell, I am well informed of her history! Some of the best comet hunting has come out of AZ!

I told the wife a little bit ago that one of these days, I am going on a bomber run to AZ, just to mess with you. Show up all out of the blue with a bottle of scotch in hand and a festy ready for Firebird!

[Advancedynamix]

Northern arizona is quite famous for it's sky watching crowd. Look up the Lowell observatory.

[scitzz]

We get two NASCAR races a year, lol. But yeah, we are lucky out here. The car crowd is so diverse that even the old school V8 guys enjoy a well built 4 banger and most of the import crowd will pay respect to the vintage iron and the monster trucks alike. Then there is the crowd that does silly things that cross all borders like LS swapped 240sx's (of which there are at least half a dozen in town) and the surplus jet engine powered Mitsubishi eclipse (it's street legal!).

I need to move to AZ! What with the dark skies for my astronomy, and the all kinds of cars crowd?

[The_Collector]

You should have given him a car length lol.

That's what I was thinking when I was watching the video...then I saw the Mark take a car length lol

[Advancedynamix]

You've got some friendly people out that way! Here in NASCAR country, that's ricer, and that's blasphemy!

We get two NASCAR races a year, lol. But yeah, we are lucky out here. The car crowd is so diverse that even the old school V8 guys enjoy a well built 4 banger and most of the import crowd will pay respect to the vintage iron and the monster trucks alike. Then there is the crowd that does silly things that cross all borders like LS swapped 240sx's (of which there are at least half a dozen in town) and the surplus jet engine powered Mitsubishi eclipse (it's street legal!).

[Flyin4stroke]

You should have given him a car length lol.

[DriverOne]

You've got some friendly people out that way! Here in NASCAR country, that's ricer, and that's blasphemy!