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Originally Posted by 2restomod
Wow, that's high praise! And here I was saving for a sc corvette  I agree. And if you ever get the chance to take the car (n/a or s/c) on a real race course you'll really be hooked. |
Yeah, I totally fell in love with these little things. The horsepower in the C4 vette was great fun, but the car was only really good in a straight line and my word, finding a place where you could actually stay in the throttle more than a couple seconds was almost impossible (empty/newly opened interstate was my friend back then). It never came anywhere near getting spanked by another car... only full size crotch rockets gave it a serious run on the interstate and I never had one that could pull me... actually I ran one fella down on what I'm pretty sure was a Ducatti 996. He looked over at me and punched it... I laid into it too and he starts dropping back past my window and on behind the car... fell in behind me and hunkered down as low as he could on his bike, and kept on falling back
. If you ever want to do that, buy a supercharged vette, otherwise I like the mr2's
. Oh, and the other two things it would do that no other car I've owned would do... the force placed on your body under full acceleration in 3rd and 4th would push the blood out of your feet and out of your hands, back up into your body... and it would top out rediculously close to 200mph (and that was because I got out of the throttle when my speedometer spotter told me the speed we had just hit). Those old C4 digital speedometers can't anywhere near keep up when those cars have so much power, lol... it skipped between 3 and 5 mph per increase generally. I do miss it, but my word... it was like a $50,000 toy that wasn't practical and I'm too young for that!
I'm planning to take one of my 88's down to the road course an hour or so away down in SC (probably the modded S/C car). My cousin and a friend stopped in and talked with the owners and they hit it off really well. They offered to let us take the deuces out for a good rate one day, so that's on the agenda for sometime soon... maybe this summer!
P.S. Just noticed you're out in AZ where there are probably a few more open/straight roads to really let one rip... that's a plus!