So today as I'm coming back from Best Buy I pass a bug in the left lane - didn't even look at him, no big deal. Now the road closes down to one lane about 1/4 mile ahead and I'm just crusing... next thing I hear some buzzy thing coming towards me and it's the guy in the bug - he zips up in front of me and cuts in just before the lanes merge.
Ok.
Up ahead is a stop light and I need to turn left, aparently so does he. We turn and once he clears the corner I hear him gun it, I had already shifted to 2nd but I laid into it and soon I'm right on him. Now we're still stuck with a single lane so I can't pass him but I'm right up on his ass and I can tell he's WOT just from the exhaust fumes. So I just stick behind him somewhere between 3/4 and WOT throttle. By the time I hit 4th we were moving pretty good but he still can't pull away so I start honking and flashing my brights at him to say "Get on the gas or get out of the way!" [
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We get up to the next stoplight and I pull up behind him and ask myself - why would someone try to race a G35 in a bug? Then it dawns on me... I see the Turbo S badge on the back of the car. (I just checked the Turbo S bug is 100hp and 97 lb/ft down on the G)
When the light turned green he just took off normally, but I was hoping he'd go again so I could use 1st gear rather than starting the race in 2nd gear like the last time. Not like I could pass him, but at least I could be RIGHT on his ass and even less on the throttle and maybe I coulda started honkin' again!
Anyway, not really a "kill" but I just thought it was funny.
-Chuck
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