Toasted a 560SEC last night (also had fried some white rice)...
07-26-2000, 06:47 AM
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Toasted a 560SEC last night (also had fried some white rice)...
In trying to keep the place interesting I figured I share these short tales...
Driving through Memorial Park last night on my home, I came to a stop in the right lane at the last light in the park, next to a ~90 MB 560SEC (5.6L V12, about 300hp I recall). The two left lanes veer to the left, and that's where I need to go. Light changes green and I pull away quite ho-hum, but because I have a stick and went the instant the light changed, the 560 guy must have thought I was racing. I sense him gaining on me in my blindspot as I'm shifting to 2nd at about 20MPH. I've got about 150 yards to make the lane change, so 2nd gear is engaged and I caress the accelerator pedal into the bottom of the floor and the turbos whoosh and I'm off. 3 seconds later I'm shifting 2-3 at 60mph as I change lanes in front of the 560 a good 3 car lengths ahead. Stay on the gas around the elevated turn for good measure until about 80 and coast down to the next light at the freeway. About 10 seconds later he ends up behind me. Around the corner and up the entrance ramp I simply disappear after the late changes to green.
Then later on the freeway on the way home, I see some white rice moving up quickly behind me, performing rice-lane-changes. I was doing 75 at the time and was bunched up behind traffic next to the left lane. He went past me in the fast lane and got blocked in by even slower moving traffic about 2 car lengths ahead of me (that's why I wasn't in the fast lane). The white rice in question was a completely whited-out Cavalier complete with large white wheels, small wing, ground effects, small coffee can, etc. Anyway traffic to the right cleared and I had a gap and leisurely took it in 6th gear. As I move up to the next clump of traffic, I see him do the same. I find a way through the clump and again a while later he discovers that same path too. We're doing about 85 and I simply decide I don't want to see him in the ol' rearview anymore. Freeway opened up ahead and 4th gear was selected as full boost was engaged. About 10-12 seconds later I was at 4th gear redline, and shifted to 5th, stayed at 120 for about 5-6 seconds and then let off the gas and coasted back down to about 90 over the next half mile or so. Damndest thing happened, I couldn't see the Cavalier any more in my rearview.
Why's this car have to be sooo much fun?
Driving through Memorial Park last night on my home, I came to a stop in the right lane at the last light in the park, next to a ~90 MB 560SEC (5.6L V12, about 300hp I recall). The two left lanes veer to the left, and that's where I need to go. Light changes green and I pull away quite ho-hum, but because I have a stick and went the instant the light changed, the 560 guy must have thought I was racing. I sense him gaining on me in my blindspot as I'm shifting to 2nd at about 20MPH. I've got about 150 yards to make the lane change, so 2nd gear is engaged and I caress the accelerator pedal into the bottom of the floor and the turbos whoosh and I'm off. 3 seconds later I'm shifting 2-3 at 60mph as I change lanes in front of the 560 a good 3 car lengths ahead. Stay on the gas around the elevated turn for good measure until about 80 and coast down to the next light at the freeway. About 10 seconds later he ends up behind me. Around the corner and up the entrance ramp I simply disappear after the late changes to green.
Then later on the freeway on the way home, I see some white rice moving up quickly behind me, performing rice-lane-changes. I was doing 75 at the time and was bunched up behind traffic next to the left lane. He went past me in the fast lane and got blocked in by even slower moving traffic about 2 car lengths ahead of me (that's why I wasn't in the fast lane). The white rice in question was a completely whited-out Cavalier complete with large white wheels, small wing, ground effects, small coffee can, etc. Anyway traffic to the right cleared and I had a gap and leisurely took it in 6th gear. As I move up to the next clump of traffic, I see him do the same. I find a way through the clump and again a while later he discovers that same path too. We're doing about 85 and I simply decide I don't want to see him in the ol' rearview anymore. Freeway opened up ahead and 4th gear was selected as full boost was engaged. About 10-12 seconds later I was at 4th gear redline, and shifted to 5th, stayed at 120 for about 5-6 seconds and then let off the gas and coasted back down to about 90 over the next half mile or so. Damndest thing happened, I couldn't see the Cavalier any more in my rearview.
Why's this car have to be sooo much fun?
07-26-2000, 07:00 AM
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Series of rapid lane changes dicing through tight traffic without signals
When 2 or more ricers are doing it in tandem, it's known as rice-racing (i.e., in traffic).
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07-26-2000, 07:14 AM
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Deadly accident on twisting road
TOPANGA, July 25 – A 30-year-old driver who was racing on Tuna Canyon Road was killed today when the vehicle went off the twisting two-lane road, and a passenger, who was thrown from the car, was hospitalized, authorities said.
THE DRIVER WAS DECLARED dead at the scene of the roughly 6 p.m accident near Saddle Peak Road, said county fire Inspector Ray Rodriguez. His name was unavailable.
The injured passenger, whose name was withheld, was reported in critical condition en route to UCLA Medical Center, he said.
The fatally injured driver apparently was racing with another motorist, said California Highway Patrol Officer Richard Perez. The vehicle, in which the man was killed, went down a slope and stopped about 50 feet from the road, he said.
No information was made available about the driver of the other vehicle.