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It was a cold night.....about midnight.... We were at the midnight drags in an industrial area outside of town. I was watching some runs when a kid with a mustang wanted to run. I said "Later". A friend heard me and said "Go run him." "I'm not ready." I told him. After a while he came back and said "Go run him." "Nah, I'm not ready."
On the third time he said "Why won't you run him?" "It's not warmed up." I told him. "I'll go warm it up for you, give me the key." So I did. He asked "Is there anything I should know about how it drives?" and I said "No, it just runs straight down the road."
He gets in and lazily goes down the "Track." At the end you make a block and come back to the starting line. When he gets back he is near the line and I ask "Is it warm?" He said "Let me see." so he pulls up to the line and stages. He's off. Smooth and straight . I hear the automatic shift to second and a little harder throtle. Can just see the tail lights now and then the shift to high. A little more throtle and....... then I see headlights. i think "Where did they come from." Then the taillights, then headlights again.
Suddenly I see the headlights fly off the road to the right. Then I realize he is spinning around. IT WAS MY CAR SPINNING and last seen headed for the dirt field.
I take off running and someone picks me up and takes me down the track. As we approach the end of the track there he is, standing, looking at my car sitting sideways in the street, both front tires flat and it looks like the bottom of the wheels are broken off.
I ask "Are you O.K.?" In a slow most unexcited voice he says "I'm sorry about your car." "Are you sure you are alright?" Again, with no emotion "I'm sorry about your car." "Don't worry about that, I'm just glad you're in one piece."
The next day we went out and he had spun around twice, backed over the curb and, on a fiberglass telephone pole guideline was a tire print about 7 feet up the wire. WOW!!!
He said "It was doing great until I went to 4th. (Reverse). First thing I did was to rebuild it and put in a lock-out shifter. |
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