Ok, so heres the situation. I'm sitting at a light, and theres this early 90's Monte Carlo next to me. The driver had to be seriously 70 years or older. When he began to rev his engine, I thought he was having car trouble until he flipped me off! So I decide to ignore him and just drive on. At the green, we both start moving, and naturally I need to get a little ahead of him, but he keeps up! He had one hand on the wheel and the seat reclined untill he was about laying down, and he was racing me in what looked like his wife's car!!!! So we get going about 50 and I dump just to give the guy one last victory for his racing career. It was one of the funniest things I've ever experienced. I guess older people are still trying to find new ways to keep punks in sports cars off the streets, by Beating Them!!! Just thought I'd share that with you guys!

 

dont forget back in the day all those old people drove monster cube powerhouse cars, even granny's station wagon usally had a 454 or 455 under the hood, he probley thinks his new monte carlo is still like the older ones with a 454 under the hood

 

He flipped you off, that's just hilarious. And don't take old people lightly, they were young once too. My friend has a 65 Mustang that runs high 13's. He said one day he looked outside to see what all this noise was and his grandfather was doing burnouts in it.

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"Putting any amount of money into a RICE BURNER is like wiping your a$$ with a turd. "
'86 IROC
T-TOPS, TINTED WINDOWS, BRAKE LIGHT BLACKOUTS
GM GOODWRENCH 350
EDELBROCK TES HEADERS
3" Hooker CatBack w/Aero Chamber muffler
EDELBROCK 600CFM CARB.
KN AIRFILTER
ACCEL HEI DISTRIBUTOR
160* Stat, just switched to 180* b/c of winter coming and going to college in the mts.
3:73 Posi
Rebuilt 700R4
B&M Megashifter, 5" Autometer Tach w/shift lite

 

yeah no kiddin' this girl I went to HS with, her dad is like that. Last time I saw him he told he how he raced this kid in a Ram and wasted him with his 5.3 GMC. 3 stop lights in a row a wasted him every time. @ the second light he did a burnout. granted, it's a full size truck, but it's got alot of snot. BTW he's darn close to his late 50's.

 

Actually if in his 70's he probably started out in straight six cars that could be bought for $25. Just ask my Dad. I'm 45 and some people think I'm an old man. But I still run 4 or 5 miles every week and next year I plan to be running the fastest times I ever ran at the dragstrip with the altered I just bought. Think I'll be able to handle it?

 

my dad bought his first car for $10 its a 1929 model T Him and his brother dropped a ford staight 8 into it and he said it would smoke anything around. just before he died he drove my 79 camaro, he had even me scared. worse yet he got into 3 races within a mile of each other and won them all.

 

Why did the old guy flip you off?? hahahahaha! I love it when i hear people say they get flipped off for no apparent reason. You guys must be seriously ugly or something!

 

back when my formula was still a 305 tpi I raced an old cross fire vette with an old man driving. at the light his wife kept hitting him as he reved it. it was funny(I beat him even though it was kinda close) then he pulled up next to me and asked if I had a 400. it was cool watching him smile while his wife was hitting him

 

You guts probably think I'm old at 51, but I have two street daily drivers that run in the 11's. A TTA and Mustang GT, I also have a 93 Mustang conv that has gone 13.87. I've been a long time racer and every chance I get, I try to beat people off the line when the traffic signal turns green. I've done it to mustangs and imports. I usually do this with my Tahoe. Can't wait to get the TTA back on the road so I can kick some serious butt.

Pete

 

LMAO ha ha ha thats too much ... I think I've seen my father burn out once...I think. I remeber my father telling me a story of a guy he saw in a 68-69 vette. He said the old man was getting pissed and turned onto the road and proceeded to smoke them through all gears.



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1988 Sport Coupe 305 TBI
K&N
Flowmaster 80


Daily driver:
1988 K1500 5.7 4x4 shortbed flowmaster cat-back gutted cat.
AIM: RyanNH84

 

I got my *** handed to me by an old lady (yes an old LADY, with gray hair and all), course she had a 94'ish Imapala SS

 

my dad once scared the **** out of me
first day I bought the RX-7 and my dad being a whole 50 figured would not do that much just kinda run the car a little bit


well this guy had me pissing my pants when we drove..
in the middle of our sub-division he was pulling turns at 40-50 at 3 in the morning trying to get the car sideways. think he hit about 110 during some straight line run and raced some camaro that was playing around also...

all he said was nice car and handed me the keys with a little smile

old men are cool sometimes

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imports are cool - ricers suck
ICQ 4116192
AIM RXspeed87
Got rotary?
running a turbo motor with 12psi.
full dual 3 1/2" pipes comming off the turbo
FMIC,CAI, ram air, e-fan,
soon to have ported intake,TB, and motor
best time 12.5 on G-tech
prev best time 14.8

hoping for 11.x soon :-)
but I broke another driveshaft...

and still running full street trim :-)

 

We will all be old men one day, and I know I don't plan on changing my ways. Of course by then I'll have a car just a tad faster than this one, ahh wait a whole lot faster. Can we say 9 second street car. As long as college pays off I guess.

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"Putting any amount of money into a RICE BURNER is like wiping your a$$ with a turd. "
'86 IROC
T-TOPS, TINTED WINDOWS, BRAKE LIGHT BLACKOUTS
GM GOODWRENCH 350
EDELBROCK TES HEADERS
3" Hooker CatBack w/Aero Chamber muffler
EDELBROCK 600CFM CARB.
KN AIRFILTER
ACCEL HEI DISTRIBUTOR
160* Stat, just switched to 180* b/c of winter coming and going to college in the mts.
3:73 Posi
Rebuilt 700R4
B&M Megashifter, 5" Autometer Tach w/shift lite

 

hey those old guys know their stuff
it's not much but my dad is 63 yrs young
me and my brother were at route 66 dragstrip
we were pleasently suprised when he showed up in a new 300m SLOW
ok enough rassing the guy has not gone down a track in 18 yrs gets up there and hits a .502 light with his first run any body who knows E.T. racing knows starts like this with a consistent car = WIN

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87 gta 5.7ltr
edelbrock headers
gutted cat
flowmaster 3in drivers exit
8.8mm wires/accel
accel 300+digital ignition system
msd pro billet distributer
hypertech stage 2 racing chip
slp cold air intake
maf has no screens
52mm bbk throttle body
extruded plenum, runners, intake all matched
high flow fuel pump
afpr @ 50 psi
ALL MODS DONE BY ME FOR ME
waiting on hotchkis rear susp package
and sfc before i run hard at track

 

Some of those old-people cars are pretty fast.
The last of the Buick Roadmaster and Caddy Fleetwoods shared a chassis with the Caprice, and the 94-96 models could be had with the LT1.
Imagine getting a hold of Grandpa's old land yacht, and putting all of the go-faster parts in it. (blowers, headers, etc..) You could surprise a lot of people with it. I'd get a blown, LT1 Buick in light blue with fender skirts and a vinyl top. Wheee-Hee-Hee!

 

hell my dad can out drive me and my friends anytime any car he taught me all the tricks that i know and he still has more stashed in his pocket and hes 54

 

He was only 50 when this post started.. lol

 

yea sooooooooooooo. i havent seen these guys post in years. literaly

 

My 83' year old grandpa (and that was 4 years ago 87' now) raced his 92' Caprice (305 I think L03) against a 5.0L Stang on 465 around Indy. The Stang would have won but I think he was so Awestruck when he saw the guy beside him racing was so old he just shook his head and let off. hehe Funny Stuff!

(All of this while his Wife (79) and Sister in Law (81) were in the back seats. I think i'd flip if I saw that many old ppl racing me, heheh.

 

That's hilarious!

I raced an old guy once... He pulled up to me at a red light on the VFW Parkway which is in West Roxbury wich is a part of Boston... Anyways, He pulls up to me in what looked like a 1972~74 Chevy Caprice Four Door with 396 badges on the fender. He just kept looking at my car and listenning to it... I was in my first Firebird which at the time was pretty much at its peak performance wise (down into

 

That's hilarious!

I raced an old guy once... He pulled up to me at a red light on the VFW Parkway which is in West Roxbury wich is a part of Boston... Anyways, He pulls up to me in what looked like a 1972~74 Chevy Caprice Four Door with 396 badges on the fender. He just kept looking at my car and listenning to it... I was in my first Firebird which at the time was pretty much at its peak performance wise (down into the high 12's) and sounded sweet while running, The light turned green, he took off on me, I burried the gas pedal and left him like he was standing still... At the next light we talked and he was curious ad to what was under the hood. After I explained to him what had been done he felt a lot better. He couldn't belive that a stock car could have left him like that.

All in all, it was pretty cool having that exchange of thoughts with someone almost three times my age (at the time I was only 18). Iwill never forget this experienec.

By the way... How many of us here will be "That Cool Old Guy" who likes to do burnouts, run the 1/4 mile, and all the stuff we so now? I know I sure intend to be! Plus, we have to keep the American Muscle thing alive!

 

Back when I was a kid in the late 70s (yeah, I guess that makes me an old man now to some of you punks - and I mean punks in the best possible way ) my mom had a friend who asked if I'd detail her car for her. She'd been at the house one day when I was detailing my 1970 Firebird (dammit, shoulda kept that thing).

Anyway......I figure why not, I'll make a couple of bucks. So I go pick up her car at her place. Early 70's Oldsmobile Cutlass, and she tells me to take it easy 'cause it "has a lot of pep". The woman was 72 years old so I'm thinking "pep" is a relative term here. I'm trying to leave her neighborhood and traffic isn't cooperating, so I see a little opening and just nail it. I'm choking on tire smoke and the car is barely moving, so I back off the go pedal and let things hook up. I get home, pop the hood, and whaddya know. Here's this air cleaner about the size of a garbage can lid with big ol' red and black lettering on it: Rocket 455. Um, yeah, take it easy 'cause it "has a lot of pep". So'd that little old lady!

 

well, i guess once the muscle car fever is in you, there is no way to stop it.... probly at his age, he started hot rodding in the 40's and lived every minute of it. LOL

i know when i am older, i will enjoy my cars. maybe not so much on the street as i would now, but still crave speed. and would be out at the track till the launch breaks my neck!!

 

LMAO!!

great times we are having. just look at what we all have to look forward too.

oh ha, GIOVANHALEN.........i don't think you can handle it....send me your address and i'll be right up to do it for ya!!

 

hahaha thats comedy,I live on a street where a lot of cars race to the 45 mphspeed limit .This old lady that lives down the street from has a 70 T/A ,Ive talked to her and she has told me she loves kickin import *** ,probably because thats all there is around where we live.Anyways,some times Ill be out front workin on my car and Ill hear some cars racing.When I turn around usually its her smokin a R**** To this day when I think of those visuals Ive got of her racing ,it just makes lmao because its not every day you see an old lady that takes pride in street racing

 

i just hope that when im that age gas will be under 10.00 a gallon

 

lol that reminds me of the other day when i was at a stop light just minding my own business in my 91 z28 350 tpi, and this guy that looks likes hes about 60 pulls up to me in a 90 ish impala ss, with the LT1. I didn't really think anything of it at first, then dude starts revving it up at me and glaring at me, and I was thinking you've got to be kidding me lol. So I flip it in to neutral and rev it back, then we raced to the next stop light and I won, and he pulled a l33t riczor move(also unexpected) he turned as fast as he could without a turn signal onto some residential street. I was laughing my *** off for like 5 mins thinking of his face when he was glaring at me at the stop light revving it up.

 

years ago when i was a kid there used to be an old woman that lived down the street from me, she was in her mid 60s back then, she had a 70 or 71 cuda, under the hood was a 440 sixpack. her husband was about 70, he had a 68 or 69 charger,... a 426 hemi lived under it's hood.
neither one of them had a problem lighting up the tires, or putting a ford or chevy in its place.
it really surprised me when at the street races 1 night i see both of them there,... looking for some races,.... & even winning most of them. to race her in the cuda, you had the beat his charger.

and everyone thought "Little Old Lady From Pasadena" was just a myth.

never under estimate some old man,.. or old woman, especially if they happen to be in an old muscle car

on 12-29-2004 at 8:33 PM Red Devil wrote,.. "iunno. I think the car had enough and commited suicide. Maybe it was allergic to fur :shrug: "

 

That old lady sounds cool! My fiance' was driving my old 84 Firebird in its peak when some guy in an Acura NSX pulled next to her in a breakdown/parking lane at a red light in an attempt to avoid a long lin of traffic... She saw his intentions and left him as soon as the light changed... He tried to keep up then had to nose dive before hitting the median, then had to wait to fall back into the line of traffic! He must have been confused as to why his $50,000+ car couldn't handle a beat up old $500 looking Firebird...


This reminds me of some 40 Year old guy who pulled next to me at a red light once, then took off like a bat out of heck when it turned green. I never saw it coming! Anyways, I, being the unruly teen that I was, of course slammed the gas pedal, caught up to him, and smiled as I drove by! Oh those were good times... Now I sound old!
Who cares, I love it!

 

MuWhahaha!that guy should of just waited in traffic instead of trying to do the shortcut cuz by the time he got back into the flow of traffic after almost hitting the mediun he was probably in the same spot he woulda been in if he had not tried to take that dangerous shortcut in the first place.Im guilty of that to though..lol