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In the "I should have died" category, in 1978 a hardcore GM friend of mine
who loved to floor his Delta 88 with a 455, Steve Murch, a group of us had all
skipped school one day and went to Padre Island with him, he drove, and we
chipped in gas and beer. Come back over the causeway from Padre, there is a long
straight, 3 mile stretch into Flour Bluff near the Naval Air Station. He punched
it and I remember seeing the speedometer needle buried in 120, stuck there. We
were all drunk but I told him "hey, constables have been shooting radar in Four
Bluff latey, my brother got busted" and I can't tell you how quickly that needle
came back down to 40mph as we went into the Bluff.
I remember how much play there was in his steering wheel as he was driving
that fast, seemed 2-3 inches from side to side. And on the left was a cement
retaining wall, on the right, nothing but saltwater in the bay; less than 2 feet
from roadside. At his house as we all went in for, duh, more beer, I looked at
his tires. His 'bias' tires....two of them were bald as Charles Barkley's
head.....and had STRINGS coming out of them. I can't believe 8-9 of us had been
doing 130-140 in that car old bald...bias...tires.
I did go with Steve to the beach numerous times afterwards, however, he
would go in my 70 Javelin; Junior's Impala; or someone else's car....not let him
drive!
Eddie Stakes'
Planet Houston AMX 713.464.8825 eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.planethoustonamx.com email reply currently 5-9 days 8-19 day reply times, just call! __._,_.___
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