[EZRIDN]

Thursday night after class at 10 pm i get in the '86 and wonder if i'll get a run on the way home. Thrusday night a lot of people here in south Florida are looking to mess around. About 10 min later i spot a beautiful '01 Cobra, Dark red color, factory crome wheels. dealer tags, and his girl is in the car. i was drooling.

I'm behind him at a light and he gives a quick rev...sounds stock, but i was still intimidated. We have to follow each other and just jockey around alittle b/c of traffic. this actually boosted my confidence some what.

My turn comes up and i hope he takes it also b/c it runs onto another 3 lane road that is great for a run b/c people can't turn onto it. I'm at the light with him behind me (i'm the first car). My legs are shaking because i'm thinking, i'm gonna get my headlights sucked out. ha ha. We make the turn and he doesn't make a move. I'm like ok, no biggie----then the light changes up ahead to red! He pulls to my right and a 98 and up V-6 camaro pulls up on the left of me reving his motor. so its the camaro, me, '01 Cobra.

We approach the light and i gear down to first and i'm thinking when the light changes i'm nailing it. We get about 10 feet from the light, 5 mph, and it changes green. i nail it and spin 'em over a few times and i hear the Cobra on it. Click 2nd and i look to my right for the Cobra---nothing there. 5K comes up.....powershift 3rd---nice crip from the tires. look in my rearview and see the diver's side headlight in my reaview and he is falling back slowly. 5k comes up and powershift 4th. the '86 lunged forward at the shift and i look in my rearview to see BOTH headlights on the Cobra! Run through 4th and i see the slow pull i had stop. Check the speedo---- it reads 85 and i hit the brakes. Cobra comes flying up beside me and nails the brakes. we stay say by side were i rev back at him to 5k and click it back in 3rd (we're runnign 45 now). we both kick it and stay dead even til 85 again. we both hit the brakes and he pulls off.

i gave a couple honks and was in shock over the run. I thought i was going to get murdered after hearing how well the 01's are running. Goes back to the old rule i guess...anything can happen in a race!