Cars and Things

I'm not a material person; really, I'm not. But I will own a Caterham 7 some day; I don't think my life will be complete without it. (www.rmsci.com/picarchive/jpe1.jpg) Now, I've touted the merits of the 7 on here before (http://wannabesage.blogspot.com/2004/11/super-7.html), so I won't do it again. But goddamn that's a sexy car! To me, anyways...

I thoroughly embarassed some guy in a civic yesterday; that was fun. These days I don't do much road racing anymore (I've matured a bit) but this guy was just on my ass, and I had a car in front of me; that pisses me off, because even if I wanted to go faster, I couldn't, so what good does tailgating me do? Anyhoo, after bathing him in my washer fluid, the car in front of me turns, and I'm left with the "Ignore him or dust him" option. I went with option 2. I was whipping around turns at roughly 60mph in 2nd gear (which is about as fast as my car goes in 2nd gear, but it wasn't worth upshifting because I was pretty much driving those turns at the limit anyway). And I was pulling away from him, not so much because my car corners better (my 6-cyl accord is much bulkier than a civic), but I think because I was either A) gutsier in my approach or B) a better driver. Maybe both. In any event, as I come out of the last turn he starts to gain a bit (maybe I didn't take that turn as well? Maybe he got bolder? I dunno.) However, it didn't last long because by that point we were on a straightaway and I just went "nope, 3rd gear" and left him far behind. Seriously folks, that's better than sex. I mean, sex is fun and all, but my legs aren't shaking for 10 minutes after sex. I had a hard time pushing the clutch afterwards because I was so weak in the knees.