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justaprogressive

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17. heh
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 01:16 PM
Dec 13

well I had little accident with the 420, just dinged the R headlight surround
(unprotected by minimal bumpers mind you)!

Realized I wouldn't get to drive it again...there was a brand NEW INTERSTATE
with 0 traffic....so I took it up to 90..; after a while it got boring, so I brought it
up to 100, pulled over to the left to pass a late model T-bird. He wanted to race.

Fine. I hate people who speed up when you pass them.

So 110. Took a little while (5-10-secs) for him to match that.

120 This time it took alot longer to match 120.

I floored the accelerator pinned the speedo at 140.

Held it there for about two minutes, really understood, (landscape
flying by! The road narrows at that speed!) that I was in a car bred
to race, slowed back down to 100...no sign of the T-bird.

It was 15 yrs before I drove the car again. It needed a steering rack
moron father sold the 420G for $600. (I would have paid 3x that,
and fixed the rack myself)

Told him so! Idiot.

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