You don't mess around with......a GTO!

My brother and I were cruising in his 69 GTO one night. His car is "Restified" with the Edelbrock Performer RPM package which includes the Ram Air IV spec cam as well as the manifold. The 400 in his car also has ported 6X heads with 1.65 roller rockers, Hooker headers, an MSD electronic ignition, and an A1 prepped Turbo 400 that shifts like a racing trans. It's programmed to shift at 6,500 rpm, but sometimes it shifts between 6800-7100 rpm. On street tires, this results in smoking the tires for about 75-100 feet on the 1-2 shift and about 8-10 feet on the 2-3 shift. The car is usually going about 90 before the speed of the tires matches the road! Needless to say he has given an attitude adjustment to a lot of Corvettes, Buick Gran Nationals, and even the occasional BMW M3. This particular night a Toyota Celica Supra was messing with us. A rice rocket tugging on Superman's cape? This guy had obviously seen the "Fast and Furious" movies too many times. We agreed to go at the next red light. The Toyota jumped us a half a car length out of the hole, and held that lead to the top of ( our ) low gear. In 2nd, we pulled even. As we barked the tires into third, the Supra driver looked surprised that we were still neck and neck. Both cars were going way too fast now, but neither my brother nor the Supra driver would let off. This happened two ore times exactly the same way. The Supra would jump us off the line, we'd pull even in 2nd gear, and then neither car could gain another inch. He flagged us to pull over and we did. He said he'd never seen an american car that fast. He also asked us if we were overheating or running out of nitrous, because he was. We laughed and said, no, our temp guage was 180 degrees like always, and we opened the hood and watched him shake his head in disbelief when he saw we had no nitrous plumbing. He was further crushed when he said his car ran "10 second" quarters ( I told you he saw the movie too many times ) and we laughed, and showed him a 12.47 slip my brother had. A 12 second Supra is impressive, but I love these guys who've never been to the track sprouting the blistering times they THINK their cars run! I think of that Jim Croce hit- "you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind, you don't pull the mask off the ol' Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim." My brother doesn't call his car "Jim", but you get the point. Mastermind