Ever since I got my new 2007 Mustang GT Premium a few weeks ago I’ve discovered that there are a lot of idiots with performance cars out there that want to street race. As if the Mustang is some type of benchmark. This never ever happens when I’m driving my Pantera so I’m somewhat mystified. I’m not a street racer so the idiots are out of luck. Speaking of being out of luck, the best event of all took place while I was visiting Charlotte last Saturday. It happened at 6:00 AM at the stop light located at the corner of the Arboretum Mall in Mathews.
While I was waiting for traffic to clear so I could pull out of the Arboretum a clean 90s vintage black Mitsubishi 3000GT cruised by. As I pulled out of the Arboretum, I noticed he had stopped at the Providence Street stop light in the outside lane. As I pulled up beside him in the inside lane, I noticed that his windows were down. I had mine down too because I had the AC off in the cool morning air. As we both set there idling with the sweet sound my Mustang exhaust echoing off the side of his car, the thought hit me that he was going to be one of the rice race idiots. I didn’t bother to casually glance over and gave him one of the don’t even try it looks. After all it was only Mitsubishi. A few other cars pulled up behind us while we were waiting for the light to change including a large SUV behind me.
The light changes and the Mitsubishi instantly brings up the RPMs and nails it as I make a normal slow start. He leaves with hard wheel spin with the resulting tire screeching. He hits second gear hard with another tire screech and stays on it hard. About then I notice bright lights in my mirror and see that the SUV is really on my butt and pulling over into the outside lane. As the SUV goes by me I see “Mathews Police Department” brightly displayed on the side. The cop is hard on the power but the Mitsubishi 3000GT is still pulling away fast.
As I continue on at the speed limit, the Mitsubishi 3000GT and cop are way out ahead, a quarter mile or more and I can see the cop slowly caching up with him but no blue flashing lights. By the time they reach the High School the cop is on his butt. The blue lights come on just before the church and the Mitsubishi pulls into the church parking lot with the cop behind him.
I’m laughing so hard that I can hardly drive but did manage to give it a little extra throttle vroom, vroom as I went by them and down shifted to turn left at the church light.
It was pretty cool experience, like a scene out of American Graffiti!
Mike
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