Miata Mailing List: October 1997, Message #479
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From: 	Lanny Chambers <lanny@derived.com>

Subject: Re: my corner story

Date: 	Fri, 3 Oct 1997 01:39:54 +0000



On 10/2/97 14:49, John C. Day (jcday@garlic.com) wrote:



> So, with Mr.

>Chevelle still looking like he'd like to put his V8 in my trunk, I run

>pretty hard right up to the turn, jump on the brakes at the last second,

>hit 2nd and whip through the channel turn as hard as I dare.  Sure

>enough, CRASH - I look back in my mirror just in time to see sparks

>flying everywhere as the Chevelle misses the channel and all that

>lowered suspension gets introduced to Portland's finest.



What is it with Chevelle drivers? Is there a low-pass IQ filter in the 

showroom, or what? When my '71 240Z was new (and still stock), I swung 

out to pass an SS396 full of billybobs on a West Virginia 2-lane. At the 

end of the longish straight, there was a right-angle right turn, marked 

"30 MPH," and beyond that the side of a mountain. Naturally, Mr. Macho 

had to race me, and was keeping me in the left lane until I was starting 

to think seriously about my braking point (we were going around 110 mph 

by then, and I was figuring the turn for 70, max). The Chevelle driver 

must have been thinking along similar lines, only HIS braking point had 

passed a ways back. Last I saw, he disappeared in his own dust cloud 

after spinning into a ditch. Might have rolled it, but I wasn't hanging 

around to see.



Of course, that was many years ago, and I don't do things like that in my 

Miata. Yet.



---

Lanny Chambers, St. Louis

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