Anybody ever outright asked you to show them what your car can do?
 

It was okay the first time, but by the second and third time it got kinda freakin' annoying.
Okay, my girl (my Mustang) says she's thirsty, so I stop by Amoco to fill her up with some 93. After she's satisfied, this guy in this Camaro asks, "Hey what you got in that car?" I tell him, "351". He says, "Looks good" so I'm feelin kinda good. Then he asks "Push it a little when you leave here" so I say "Alright." Since he asked nicely, what the heck. I burn out of there and leave some vaporized rubber hovering over the street.
Now get this: Few days later, I go to same Amoco, the cashier asks me, "hey man, which way you leaving here?" I tell him and he says, "Man I wanna see what that car can do. My friend was working here a few days ago and told me that your car was real fast." I think to myself, "So what do you want me to do about it? Am I supposed to burn rubber everytime someone asks? You ain't buyin my gas, tires, paying my bills, etc." And this has happened other places too. Maybe I should tell them it's a piece of crap. I think I'm gonna have to start charging per smoke show.

Has this ever happened to any of you? What do YOU say or do?

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'79 Mustang Coup
4" Cowl
Weld wheels (15x6;15x8)
Stock 5.8L
C4 w/ shift kit
1.5" MAC full length headers
Holley 750 CFM
Edelbrock intake
2.5" Off road H-pipe
Flowmasters (2 chamber)
8.8" Rear end w/ 2.73:1 gears (sucks!)
Front: 225/60/15 Rear: 255/60/15 Eagle GT II
Sucky Purolator air filter that's choking my car. http://www.mustangworks.com/interact...gboard/mad.gif

That happens to all Mustang owners!! People even used to ask me to light em up in my 2.3L LX.

When someone asks me, I usually ask them politely if they'll buy me new rear tires. No takers yet.

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98 Mustang coupe 3.8L V6
87 Mustang GT hatchback 5.0L V8
87 Bronco XLT 4bbl 351W

My mom drives a 99 Mustang GT convertable.

While in my 64 1/2 stang with the 289 with my friend that has the 66 Fairlane. We were sitting at a light next to a gas station. Some girls were sweatin the car, so me and Eric wave back. There boyfriends didnt like that, so they made rather rude comments about Fords (They were in a freakin Saturn). So the girls yell to show us what I she can Do.

The light turns green, I jsut floor it (its and auto) and spin throught the intersection, hook up and haul A$$. Swung back to the right and hauled butt back there way. When they saw me at the light they were waving and yellin. I put on another show. Had that ol 289 up to about 5000 Rpms (45 mph) in first. Hung a big second when it shifted into second, was going about 65 by the time we flew by them. They loved every bit of it. I've had other people ask me to show my cars stuff, but I'm tired of typing now and I'll tell of those later.

I wanted to swing back by and stop and tell the girls they should be riding in a real car, not a Saturn, but my friend Eric insisted that we not do that.


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64 1/2 Red Mustang Coupe. 289, C4, 3:1 rear gear. Mallory duel point. Ported & Polished 65 heads shaved .01 with 351 windsor valves, high side of 10.5:1 comp, 1.7:1 sled rockers, blue wolverine lumpy cam, autolite 4100 Hipo 4 barrel. And to many others to list

2000 Perf Red Mustang GT. 5spd.

64 1/2 red 6cyl coupe. Auto. project car.

notice my handle -"spin em up"- i took that name because it seems everybody in town shouts that at me.

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THE MIGHTY NOTCH
http://smilecwm.tripod.com/net2/burnout.gif

I get that ALL the time!
Normally i play along and give 'em a little squat and chirp to get 'em talking.
I mostly save it though when cute girls are "sweatin'" the car during rush hour traffic, that's the best time to light 'em up. Or when i'm at the Friday night street drags. Then it's all out craziness :-)

What turns me off is when people yell rude things after you've left a parking lot without having destoyed your tires... i ALWAYS pull a 360 and head back to ask them if they'd care to repeat themselves.
Nobody has yet to do that. Nor' have they ever been driving a cool car themselves either.

I get that all the time from friends to McDonald's drive through part timers!

I always like to give em a show. HEHE!

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C ME FLY
http://www.mustangworks.com/mustangs...1248-slot1.jpg
88 Coupe, riding on 17'z and Eibachz taking out Lambo's on the twisties.

I get it a lot too. The best was when i was leaving a small car show that is put on every month at a restaurant, and this old guy with a cherry 69 GTO said get on it a little as i was leaving. So i abliged and had every head at the show looking my way by the time i spun 3rd. I'm such an exibitionest http://www.mustangworks.com/interact...rd/biggrin.gif Light Em Up!! http://www.mustangworks.com/interact...oard/smile.gif

I get that all the time, and I used to do it all the time until I noticed that the tires that I only have <10,000 miles on them are bald. Now I just say it won't spin 'em. I almost got out one time kicked some guys A**. I was in the Woodward Dream Cruise with my dad's 63-1/2 427 Galaxie. The motor is worth almost $10,000 and it starts to peak the 200 degree mark on the temp guage and I can feel the heat pouring off of the cast iron headers. So I go to turn off of this side street when this old drunk dude says I am not going to let you off of Woodward (he was standing in front of my car) until you do a burnout so I tell him that I am overheating, and he says "I don't care, then do a burnout and I'll let you off of the street". So I jump out of the car and give him a few choice words and basically tell him is he doesn't get out of my way I am going to mangle his body. He finally got out of the way. Can you believe the nerve of that guy.

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88GT stock shortblock, ported GT-40 iron heads, ported Edlebrock Performer intake, 24# inj, Pro-M 75mm Bullet MAM, 3.73, hurst short throw, F-303, electric fan, alum rad, FMS HD clutch, R134a ac conversion, 70mm TB , and some other stuff I probably forgot, best run so far on ET streets is 13.02@106 with a 1.87 60ft.

I don't know what any of you guys are talking about! http://www.mustangworks.com/interact...board/wink.gif http://www.mustangworks.com/interact...rd/biggrin.gif Nobody's ever asked me to show 'em what it's got!

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GT-40 heads (ported, polished, + milled), B303 cam, 1.7rr's, JE pistons, Offy intake, Carter AFB 625cfm carb, Flowtech 1 5/8" shortys, Flowtech X-pipe, MAC Flowpath exhaust, MAC pulleys, 373's, subframes, Eibachs+Tokicos, B+M ripper, FMS Clutch, Zoom Quadrant+cable, 17" CSA Ultra rims, 235/45ZR17 Yokohama AVS S4's, MSD 6A ignition+coil, FMS 9mm wires, Carbed, Naturally Aspirated, and Nasty!

I feel you guys. Everytime I get gas, someone gives me a nod or a complement on the car. Today, this astro van full of ghetto looking guys were all gawking at the car, and when I left the lot, they yelled "hit it." I didn't though, because complements are cool, but ruining my tires and risking jail are not worth it to impress guys. Girls, on the other hand....

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2000 GT
Black w/Black Leather
Stock as a Rock

I got that too when I had my Stang. I had just got new tires and my offroad H-pipe put on and after the mechanic took it off the lift, he was like "yo dude, smoke em up." I told him had to be one dumb son-of-a-bit*h it he thought I was gonna smoke up $800 worth of 5 minute old tires. I did end up giving him a quick ride so we could hear the exhaust though and he was stoaked.
Gas stations were the worst though. Every body looks when they hear you rumble up. Then you would have people coming to talk about your car (which isn't bad considering how many a**holes there are, its cool to talk to nice people.) I DO miss the fun of my mustang.

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1997 Thunderbird 4.6L: Black w/ grey leather Ram Air w/ K&N, FMS U/D pulleys, FMS 9mm wires Soon: custom exhaust, custom burned "Inject tech" chip, trans-go shift kit, 28,000GVW trans-cooler

No Longer own: 91 LX 5.0L 5 spd Red w/ black interior
2 chamber flowmasters, Bassani off-road X-pipe, MAC cold air induction, Kirban short throw, Heavy duty 3 core radiator, FMS 3:73's, Timing bump to 14 degrees, SRP billet racing pedals, Kenwood sound system

I get that alot too but if they catch me in the right mood i'll give them a little show but if they ask me on the main street or somewhere that cops hang i ask them if they will pay the ticket

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86GT-MACcatback-89heads,intake,TB,KENNYBROWNsubs,3.73's,HURST shifter,much more to come

my girlfirend;s kid (12 yrs old) asks me to "peel out" every time i leave, and of course i do, so he'll think i'm "cool" (kids seem to respect cool)..especially since i dont catch too many races i'm always ready to haul a$$ anyway

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stock aod (only mod is the .38 with hollows on the passenger seat for the jackers) waiting for relatives to die for money for mods...

Last night, riding my friend home at 1:30 am, I am sitting at the light when a cherokee pulls along side. I look over and then look away thinking nothing. Next thing I know I hear this guys engine at about redline trying to get my attention. Needless to say, the light turned and he flew off onto the residential street we were headed for. Man, how stupid was this guy to think I'd race...let's see...we are going into residential neighborhoods with 25mph speed limits and this guy wants to race through them. Some people just don't think about the consequences of their actions.

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91 GT AOD
Ultra Blue Metallic
3.73's, flows,
PI Converter, 14.71@91.78mph

People ask me to do burnouts a lot, or everytime a new person rides in my car and we are at a light they say, "let's see what's she's got, show me what it can do, etc". My car feels slow to me though so I just say nah it's too slow.

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92 AOD GT, K&N, ram air, pulleys, 2 ch. flowmasters, 4:10's, shift kit, 1 5/8 mac longtubes and offroad hpipe 14.249 @ 97.34 mph before the headers and hpipe

Thanks for the replies. You all kinda gave me a different view about this topic (looking at it in a more positive way). I guess when I start making a little more money to devote towards the car, I'll think about obliging more people. Don't get me wrong, I definitely do not get an attitude or act like a snob toward the people who ask me (snobs piss me off), I was just kinda gettin annoyed with it because it seems as if those who requested a smoke show never considered the cost of MY engine repairs or tire replacements.

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'79 Mustang Coup
4" Cowl
Weld wheels (15x6;15x8)
Stock 5.8L
C4 w/ shift kit
1.5" MAC full length headers
Holley 750 CFM
Edelbrock intake
2.5" Off road H-pipe
Flowmasters (2 chamber)
8.8" Rear end w/ 2.73:1 gears (sucks!)
Front: 225/60/15 Rear: 255/60/15 Eagle GT II
Sucky Purolator air filter that's choking my car. http://www.mustangworks.com/interact...gboard/mad.gif

Wow, someone's actually from Pittsburg (StangCrazy)!!

And this is the funny part...last Tuesday night, some guy in a Cherokee tried to race me in my GT on RT 28 north! It was green...and I messed with him a little bit too...

You've probably seen me around...all white 87 GT, all white 98 V6, or my moms green w/white top 99 35th anniversary GT convertible.

Do you ever race down in Crafton? Maybe I'll see you down there.

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98 Mustang coupe 3.8L V6
87 Mustang GT hatchback 5.0L V8
87 Bronco XLT 4bbl 351W

My mom drives a 99 Mustang GT convertable.

I get hit up for tires smoke all the time. These kids in the parking lots hanging out always insist on a burnout. I had one kid yell at me one day to light em up and I was feeling a little cocky, so i gunned it and took off down a side street before the cops who were a block away could figure out where it came from. I'm pretty sure they knew who did it though because nearly every time I go through that little town now I get followed by the local Barney Fife. I've tried to avoid breaking my tires loose since I put the new tires on, but here in another few months, lookout! They should be in prime condition for laying down some rubber.

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90 Mustang LX 5.0
My Ride*My Site

[This message has been edited by AxemanZZ (edited 12-17-2000).]

Thats the downside of having a Mustang... everybody want to race you or see you punch it.. http://www.mustangworks.com/interact...rd/biggrin.gif

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And my R.I.P. stang

That's hardly a "down side"..
:-)

By the way SMITHBLING, i love your car man!
If i pulled up on you - i'd ask you to light'em up too :-)

Try Me: Thanks brother! I think most people ask me because of the god-awful rumble from the pipes! You got any pics of your ride?

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C ME FLY
http://www.mustangworks.com/mustangs...1248-slot1.jpg
88 Coupe, riding on 17'z and Eibachz taking out Lambo's on the twisties.

Yes i do - but i don't seem to be able to post it?

Try Me: Have you read the UBB code to the left of the message reply box. It says:

[img]type web address here make sure to include http:// end with [/img]

I get it all the time!..
So what our family owns a tire/auto shop! they think ya get tires for free!!!!! oh well I usually just give it a little bit just enough to get a haze, oh well a few little spins of your tire is only a small small portion instead of doin a john force burn out just do a few small 1's or get a pair of burn off tires, then ya take off the line in a cloud of smoke well the big block is rumbling, oh yea ya wonder where ure old tires go.. ya see that smoke..hehe... It works tho if you goto a tire shop and see if they have burn off tires they usually give em away for really cheap or if ya get new tires they can usually give ya a pair of burn off tires if yours are right toast but thats the advantages of buying from someone local instead of off the net.

I like to walk softly and carry a big stick. So when they ask what's done to the car, I just tell them there's a hole in muffler.

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Moxie Racing

Hey Moxie, just checked out the sight you gave a link to. Is that your company or just one you like to use a lot? Light Em Up!! http://www.mustangworks.com/interact...oard/smile.gif

Sac68, I only went to crafton once. I went with my friend who has a red 2000 SS. You have probably seen him up there because he used to go all the time. It sucks now because we have to deal with the pittsburgh weather but oh well. Maybe i'll see you up there in the spring...or on the road this winter.

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91 GT AOD
Ultra Blue Metallic
3.73's, flows,
PI Converter, 14.71@91.78mph

If I am at a light or anywhere in my car, I just wave the 2 tickets I keep in my car that I got for speeding/excessive speed and say "Sorry, but I can't afford it right now."
http://www.mustangworks.com/interact...oard/frown.gif

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1997 Cobra (Black on black), C+L 80mm MAF, K+N filter, Pro 5.0 shifter, BBK Springs, Taylor Wires, 2 Chamber Flows, ASP Pulleys, BBK off road H pipe.

My car is fairly clean from the outside and idles real nice so i get a lot of yells and requests for smoke so i usually take off and get up to about 10 after the clutch is out and just punch it and let the tires scheech to let 'em know that i have power to back up the look. ( I live in typcical white suburbia and have little else to do than go racing on a friday night)

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89 5.0 GT White w/Blue Racing Stripes
K&N, 73mm Mass Air, Ported and Polished Stock Heads, E303 Cam, MAC equal Length Headers, Off Road H-Pipe, Borla Mufflers, Sway Bars, Strut Tower, Subframe Connectors, Eibach, Koni Adjustables, Pony 5 Stars, 1000 Watt JL Audio System

I think that the moral of this story is that it all depends on the wether the driver is competent at all, he very well could be telling the truth and just ran into some person who couldnt drive (woman) :-)
In my town there is a Roush that has a Vortec on it and supposedly it puts out about 500hp, everyone had checked it out at the local specialty car dealer. Well it got sold to a 16 year old girl at my highschool who couldnt drive a stick!!! It was a so clean and i knew she would ruin it. And one night i pulled up next to her at a stop sign and proceeded to smoke her very badly out of 3 consecutive signs. It was a shame. It has now since had the supercharger cracked and the skirts broken on one side and is up for sale.

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89 5.0 GT White w/Blue Racing Stripes
K&N, 73mm Mass Air, Ported and Polished Stock Heads, E303 Cam, MAC equal Length Headers, Off Road H-Pipe, Borla Mufflers, Sway Bars, Strut Tower, Subframe Connectors, Eibach, Koni Adjustables, Pony 5 Stars, 1000 Watt JL Audio System

Sorry, Meant to post that under a story about a guy in a 95 GT who supposedly pulled ahead of a SS Camaro in 4th gear.

I know what yall mean, Iam 16 and just got a 93 Cobra on the 21st, so on Christmas night my uncle asks me to take him for a ride (mind you, i only have a permit) so i oblige to give him some excitement. After about 5 minutes of driving through the neighborhood at normal speeds, he asks me to get into it a little bit, so since there was nobody around, I lit em up in first, dropped it into second, and backed off at about 40. Glad we didn't get caught and he didn't tell my parents.

16 years old and driving a 93 Cobra. http://www.mustangworks.com/interact...d/confused.gif

When I was 16, I had to ride with my dad everywhere in his broke down Vega. I was happy if I could drive around a Food Lion parking lot in it before he finished buying groceries without gettin caught (he caught me one time and was pissed off).

Dude, you better take care of that car.

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'79 Mustang Coup
4" Cowl
Weld wheels (15x6;15x8)
Stock 5.8L
C4 w/ shift kit
1.5" MAC full length headers
Holley 750 CFM
Edelbrock intake
2.5" Off road H-pipe
8.8" Rear end w/ 2.73:1 gears (sucks!)
Front: 225/60/15 Rear: 255/60/15 Eagle GT II
Sucky Purolator air filter that's choking my car. http://www.mustangworks.com/interact...gboard/mad.gif

ya, thats a heck of a nice machine you got there. i imagine at 16 you do not have much driving experience? ease into the car. don't go acting like Burt Renoylds...

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'92 emerald coupe, no air silencer, bored stock MAF to 60mm, sub-frames welded, strut tower brace, 180 thermo, 16 deg's, K'n'N panel, bosh platniums, u.d. pullies, off road h-pipe, hurst "stir stick", fms 3.73's. otherwise, factory original.
best 1/4 = 13.264@ 100.89mph with a 1.824 60 ft. on turbines with 235/60-R15 BFG DR's

IT all depends on what the girl looks like for me to open it up I do it to amuse my self at times also.

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69 428 cobra jet: tons of mods.
97 f-150 mark III

Don't worry about the car, it will be better taken care of than anything i own (isn't that how everybody treats their 5.0?) Anyway, you will probably get a kick out of this. On Christmas morning, I am taking one of my uncles for a ride when two hot girls in a 97 V6 Mustang blow by me, so at the next light I rev it up as they check out the car, but as the light turns green I stall the car. They were laughing when I caught up with them...my moment of glory turned into the most embarrasing moment of my life.

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93SVTstang-93 Cobra: 80mm MAF, K&N, 8mm plug wires, shorty headers, off road h-pipe, Borla Cat-back, centerforce clutch, hurst shifter, 3:55s

I'm only 16 too. There are only 2 people I listen to when they tell me to rod my car--1. The guy I bought my car from. He's awesome. He's like 27 and is the funniest person I know. And #2 is my girlfriend. But she just likes it more when I put it in neutral and rev it up than when I roach them at a light. My car is really freaking loud though, with headers and glasspacks and no other restrictions, so I'm afraid to rod my car a lot because I'll either get reported to the police or the police will hear me and come get me. And the police in my town are all d!cks and try to stare me down when I go by them. I just smile right back at them. It's fun. Ok, I'm done now.

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'69 Coupe with 351W
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Edelbrock Performer-RPM intake manifold, Edelbrock Performer-RPM cam, Edelbrock lifters, Edelbrock 750 cfm carb, Accel coil, Moroso Blue-Max spark plug wires, Hedman headers, 2 1/2" pipe, glasspacks, Edelbrock double roller timing chain, Edelbrock valve springs, Flex fan, C4, Lakewood traction bars, 3:1 open rear-9" 3.89:1 posi coming this summer
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LOL , 93SVTstang. Learning the hard way can really suck sometimes, but most likely, that won't ever happen again!


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'79 Mustang Coup
4" Cowl
Weld wheels (15x6;15x8)
Stock 5.8L
C4 w/ shift kit
1.5" MAC full length headers
Holley 750 CFM
Edelbrock intake
2.5" Off road H-pipe
8.8" Rear end w/ 2.73:1 gears (sucks!)
Front: 225/60/15 Rear: 255/60/15 Eagle GT II
Sucky Purolator air filter that's choking my car. http://www.mustangworks.com/interact...gboard/mad.gif

I am taking one of my uncles for a ride when two hot girls in a 97 V6 Mustang blow by me, so at the next light I rev it up as they check out the car, but as the light turns green I stall the car. They were laughing when I caught up with them...my moment of glory turned into the most embarrasing moment of my life.

Geez dude, how did you stall a 245hp 5.0 V8?? Keep out of trouble... when i was 16 i had just put in a 285hp 306ci that i now have modded to 345hp - anyways, i ended up smashing the corner of a fender in a ditch cause i was lighting it up til third gear... those stationary objects sure come up on you quick at 60 http://www.mustangworks.com/interact...oard/smile.gif have fun and make sure you don't end up smashing it up; that's one awesome first car!! http://www.mustangworks.com/interact...oard/frown.gif

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'63 Merc Meteor hardtop, warm 302, C4 auto, 2.25" Flowmaster Exhaust,
'65 289 heads - ported/chevy valves, performer cam, edelbrock f4a intake, full length hookers, 600 holley, roller rockers, k'n, 10.5:1 hyperutetic pistons... mid 13's hoping to reach into 12's

'I like to walk softly and carry a big stick. So when they ask what's done to the car, I just tell them there's a hole in muffler.'

That's ******* funny!!!!!!

Man...I just realized how much of a loser I sounded like in that last post.

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'69 Coupe with 351W
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Edelbrock Performer-RPM intake manifold, Edelbrock Performer-RPM cam, Edelbrock lifters, Edelbrock 750 cfm carb, Accel coil, Moroso Blue-Max spark plug wires, Hedman headers, 2 1/2" pipe, glasspacks, Edelbrock double roller timing chain, Edelbrock valve springs, Flex fan, C4, Lakewood traction bars, 3:1 open rear-9" 3.89:1 posi coming this summer
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Today my bro and I were at the drive thru getting lunch and there was an Indian guy working the register. He looks my car up and down and says, "Is nice," and smiles. I said thanks and then he says, "Let's see it." I said "what?" and he says, "Vroom, Vroom." So I revved it up a couple times, and he just smiles and gives me a thumbs up. My brother was laughing his *** off, but it was kinda cool to get the complement I guess.

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Black 2000 GT
Magnaflow Catback, K&N