Just a thought of mine, I realized that since I started driving my Camaro, I must have gotten about 50 cars next to me wanting to race. Out of those 50, I think I only raced about 10 of them. They just rev thier engine or hit it off the line but I just drive as normal. And the thing is, I don't know why I don't race!

I think the reason is 30% fear of cops, 40% fear of losing to a "crappy car" (or a car that should be crappy but really might not be, I don't know what's under the hood), and another 30% of it is I just don't want to seem like a showoff if my car isn't fit to show off. My car's no slouch, but with a stock 305 it's no beast either. I guess I'm sick of seeing other kids in Hondas burn out in front of crowded shopping malls trying to look cool. Most of the time when I burn rubber, I do it out in the middle of nowhere, just for my own fun. When I do race, I usually race with friends or people I know, and usually out in the country or an open road outside of the city.

So just out of curiousity, do you guys always race when you get a challenge? Or do you sometimes just blow it off?

 

I only go out at 2:00am or so around here. You'll find people around here wanting a piece of you, I don't do this sort of thing during the day, too much traffic. Its very hard to resist someone who wants a piece of ya.

 

Seems no one has been trying to pick a race with me on the street for a long time. Only thing close has been a guy in a mustang throwing a rev from across the intersection I was making a left past him so I burped the throttle at his window and the car twitched sideways for a second Last street race was set up over the phone and that was back early part of the year. 1st gen camaro with a 400 in it that I beat pretty good

 

im lucky just to get a dirty look
jon

 

I dont actually get races alot. I do drive the car around with the ET Streets out back, so it does look like a race car, but still, not a lot of people want to race. I have probably had 10 challeneges in my 3 years of driving it. I took one guy up on it (99 or 01 Cobra) and walked an easy 4 cars from a 45mph roll.

As for my reasons not racing...
-Fear of crashing it.
-Fear of getting a ticket.
-Fear of hurting someone else.

I dont worry about losing, as I could care less if I dont know what the other guy has. I am more worried about a ticket than anything, but if something happened where I crashed I would never live it down, and if I ever crashed and hurt or killed someone else, i think I would be getting out of the Mustang and performance scene for a bit. So needless to say I do very little to no street racing!

 

I really only race when I run into friends of mine. I live right down the street from the college I go to so I almost always catch a friend at a light when I go to the store or something. We normally just play together from light to light until I turn off to my house, but other than that I dont really race much because theres nothing but modded Ls1's near where I live they are always willing to race, but when I see the big tires out back and skinnies up front(on literally every Ls1 car around here, and I know most of them) I decide its not worth wasting gas to get my *** handed to me. I do race every mustang that wants a piece however which is not often.

 

fears

40% cops (even know i raced once a block away from the police station and found out at the next light there was a cop way back there) lucky no ticket or trouble

45% breaking my car(engine), beating it to the ground i like it i dont want it broke or dead engine.. im surpirzed this isnt on you guys lists

10% losing

5% getting damn rubber on the rear of my pannels of car

 

Nah i never really race, Only couple times. One time a blew a 5.0 Mustang in my dads 1986 Corvette Good times, also wrecked my bros 92 Camaro in the Vette. Besides that, i never race with my 91 Z. I know it has plenty of power, so no need to go fast. Yea once awhile ill give it gas on a corner and give the rear wheels a loud screech

 

i don;t normally race all the time unless its soem ****ty r. rocket that thinkls hes all cool or its a buddy of mine. normally get handed to me by a 98 gtp which is a buddy of mines but another buddy has just a gt and i can beat him so we go at it often but onlytime i beat the gtp was when i had the bosses corvette and i smoked um through 2nd and still ayed the smackdown on him. yeah the vette is nothign but a 02 z06 but still it a good time.but the answer to a question no not all the time, b/c fear of gettign tickets, and my dad kicking my **** when i get in trouble

 

I try to race all the time, but sadly there aint much of a culture for it here. Additionally almost every road is a two laner, one in each direction, besides the highways of course. And then there isn't many stoplights left, it's all about roundabouts now.

Of course there is a dragstrip, but my car is hardly suited there as it is a daily driver. But there have been the occational eurocompact with fartcan and ground effects from way superior models. Like the Golf Rally(turbo something, hardly sold any as it costed 8 times a GTI) or the usual Ford sierra cosworth's (turbo) lookalikes. Most of them are posers with big egos, but not packin any but KN's and fartcans, so I really toast them with my LG4.

Come to think of it, I haven't really lost to anyone yet. Blew the doors of a -64 Nova once too. But it has always been from a rolling start in light traffic.

But I think I'm going to loose soon since I take on everybody, even a guy last week with a built 455 in a -73 bird. But he thought that the magic computer stuff was to scary and probably way too fast so he declined...lol.

My girlfriend and I painted up some prestage, stage and finish lines on my local two lane interstate in an attempt to get some attention and perhaps get somone to come and race. We even made alot of burnouts in the prestage area to make it seem there had been racing. We had to watch out for others to see us though, since this road i very heavily traficced in daytime.

Best thing she's all cool about it, and has fun together with me. That's a first with girlfriends and cars so far.She even reminds me when there are dragraces to attend to.

In Sweden there is a thing called "Stockholm open", and it's not golf tournament, it's a big streetrace, or THE streetrace in Scandinavia. Big bucks too. Need to get a car to go there at least once in my life, but they are packin real heavy stuff. Like kevlar bodied early chevelles with 632 ++. Or another guy who bought a Pro modified Vette, a US NHRA winner, and converted it to a registered streetcar with lights and titles and everything.

Did you guys know that there is more american cars per inhabitant in sweden than in the US? That's something to think about, especially if your considering a holiday, the street scene is very good. Not the same here in Norway though.

BMW owners get a "oh ****t" look on their face remarkably often when they see my car.. It's quite fun, you see them from a distance, in their big 740's or 535 or even 325's and holding their head up real proud and cocky like they own the road, and then suddenly they see my car coming against them, and they get this scared look on their face, gripping the steering wheel a bit harder and leaning forward to see what this is, and when I pass them, they look all confused and worried, like their road surpremacy suddenly was lost.

Sorry for the long post.

 

That's odd, I live in a smaller city and there are always kids out here looking for a race. Then again, here in ND you can legally get your license when your 14 so I guess that adds alot of youngsters out on the roads. Add that with an abundance of street lights on empty roads in the middle of the night.

You pretty much lose your license here if you street race though so that sure adds an element of fear. It's hard to slam down the gas on a main road at night knowing that if a cop saw you you're not gonna be driving for awhile.

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And by challenges, I also am talking about the ***** cars next to you at a stoplight that slam on the gas once it turns green. I consider them challenges becuase if I hit the gas right off the stoplight I'd assume they would keep going until one of us seemed like a "winner". Or maybe I'm just wrong and they just like going full throttle after every light.

 

No...too dangerous, too many unforseen variables.

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Never race in traffic, always on deserted roads.

It makes no sense to do stoplight races, IMHO. You can't set up a bet or negotiate the race at all, and that's half the fun

 

i get everyone and their grandma reving at me.. you just gotta stop at a stoplight look at the guy next to you and give him that "i'm a punkass 20 year old blow me" look and its on

 

Before getting the paint job everyone wanted to race me. Figured it was just a loud slow GTA. Now that it looks as tough as it runs, very few even try. I usually ignore them, it's just not worth it. But every once in a great while...................you gotta! A friend of mine just bought a new Big Dog bike with a 107 CID motor, he wanted to race, bad, sure he was going to walk all over me. So we had a little improptu speed contest on a lonely stretch of road. But it was safe, no cars, no cops, good weather, no curves, so I wasn't worried about anything except breaking something, but hey, you have to pay to play. And if you're curious, I've got the baddest dog.