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robb65 · 56-60, M
I've been in the passenger seat of a drag car. Guy I once worked for got the idea he needed one, something about one of his cousins racing and he wanted to show them up. My boss was friends with a local businessman who had an early 70's Camaro he was tired of playing with so one afternoon I went with him to take a look. It was parked at a shop way out of town so "taking it for a spin" meant finding a reasonably straight stretch of county road and opening it up. Climbing in the car with his wasn't the smartest thing I ever did. The car had been professionally built but had changed hands a few times so no one was sure of the history, other than it had ran on a strip near here and was fast.
Typical of this particular person, he managed to "borrow" the car for a few months and as near as I can remember no money ever changed hands. He took it once to a track in another state where his cousins lived but there was a problem with an oil line so he didn't get to run, brought it back here, and parked it under a shed at a friends house until the owner wanted it back.
Typical of this particular person, he managed to "borrow" the car for a few months and as near as I can remember no money ever changed hands. He took it once to a track in another state where his cousins lived but there was a problem with an oil line so he didn't get to run, brought it back here, and parked it under a shed at a friends house until the owner wanted it back.
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robb65 · 56-60, M
@Stereoguy Loud and uncomfortable. It was obviously from the sound that it was geared very very low. I didn't exactly trust the driver and shouldn't have gotten in it, don't know what the hell I was thinking. We were on a public road and I was already nervous about that. The owner of the shop where it was stored told us "don't worry, we do the repair work for the local cops, they aren't gonna mess with you".
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robb65 · 56-60, M
@Stereoguy He was a Cajun if that tells you anything. He lived a charmed life. I was thinking, I was in a truck with him once towing a borrowed 20' enclosed trailer with no brakes when he slid through a stop sing on wet pavement. I can't remember if that was before or after the race car.
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robb65 · 56-60, M
@Stereoguy We didn't always get along but things got better once I was no longer depending on him for a paycheck. There's lots of funny stories and the owner of a lumber yard I deal with always ask "have you heard from the cajun lately?" I'll tell him the latest story I've heard and he'll shake his head and laugh.
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