Fred,
I can relate to your experience.
My fun on a late Friday/Saturday night in the Dallas suburb I was living in
was to teach the young kids who had Daddy's new Mustang GTs that there's
more to driving than just putting the right foot down. I had the 0-45mph
run figured out well enough to leave them all behind. One young chap in a
mid-70s Camaro actually bothered to cruise around my apartment parking lot
looking for me after losing out three times in a row.
My car? 1990 Honda Civic Si. On the crappy stock tires.
Yes, the average driver thinks that being in a fast car makes them fast.
Jim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Adrian Barnes [SMTP:adrian@icx.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 1:52 PM
> To: Fred Krampits
> Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Was it the car or the driver?
>
> Back when I was 16, I had a Midget (my first car). Being young and
> driving
> a sports car I ended up in many similar situations. Most of the time, I
> was
> able to take any car off the line with my Midget, and it wasn't even in
> good
> running shape. I beat quite a few V-8s, including '60s Mustangs. I also
> kept up with a Mustang to a speed I won't mention in an AUTOMATIC '88
> Civic. So it does have a lot to do with driver's capabilities, not just
> the
> car, for sure. Just my .02 tho...
>
> adrian
>
> Fred Krampits wrote:
>
> > Sunday I'm almost home from a little run with my Midget and I'm at a
> > light side by side with a BMW Z3 (4 cyl), light changes I start off
> > normally and the guy in the BMW punches it. Still having quick reactions
> > I punch it, and go thrugh the gears like I used to on my Firebird
> > Formula 455HO, my little midget blows the BMW away. Of course he could
> > have caught up with me eventually because of the gears and bigger motor.
> > I was just surprised I could beat him off the line so easily and he had
> > a head start. I wonder if it was my car that did it or am I just the
> > better driver?
> >
> > Fred Krampits
> > 1963 Midget MK I 1098CG
> > A Real Mean Machine
> >
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