import craze

["John W Rosa" <JohnRosa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: david welch <gandalf_782000@xxxxxxxxx>

...a bright green 71 Jav pulled up to the
stoplight. Then in the lane next to it pulls a late
model Acura. The guy in the acura started reving the
wheezing 4 banger to challenge the jav i guess. The
guy in the jav just laughed at him, When the light was
green they took off in a cloud of tire smoke, the
Acura had him out of the hole, then the jav hit second
and left the little jap car in the dust....

most don't really care about AMC and just
remembers the ugly cars like the pacer. 

                  Dave W.

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Pacers are ugly? Different, yes...but ugly is
a school-bus yellow Pontiac Aztec, or a Yugo.

As for the import story, two nights ago I was
at a light in my '95 F150 when a 2001+ Civic 
stopped along side. Now, my 10-year-old F150 is 
no powerhouse. It's got an enemic 5.0L with a 
automatic trans, 4WD, 8-foot bed, and a bed cap 
covering a plethora of construction tools and 
other gear....and both tanks were at 3/4 full.

The Civic had such hi-perf stuff as a coffee-can 
muffler, 17 or 18" wheels, lots of tint and several
nifty rice-boy stickers.

Given his weight advantage and 5-speed trans, he 
should have stomped all over me.

Just after the light, the two lanes merged to one.
When the light went green, we both wanted to be in 
front by the merge. well, that little 4-banger did 
all it could to stay door-to-door with my 115k miles-
old truck. By the merge, I simply let off as if 
neither did, we were gonna trade paint. Naturally, 
once he had the lead, he slowed to a crawl to let me 
admire his car's tail lights. After another mile, I 
got fed up and passed him illegally. His car had no 
ability to prevent it, hard as that little egg beater 
whined.

And of course, once I was in front, he found a reason 
to wanna go faster now and tail gated me for miles...
even tho I was going 20mph faster than he did when he 
was leading.

Wish my 360 Hornet had been my ride that day!

John W Rosa

http://www.JavelinAMX.com