I'm cruising home and I see this White 97+ Buick weaving in and out of traffic. Well it gets caught at the same light I do, the guy looks over at me with his rainbow looking knit hat on and nods. He turns down his radio and starts revving the engine. I'm thinking to myself is he serious? . The light turns green and I pull off the line by almost a car hit second gear and fended the white beast off up to about 60, we par up, by third gear he is pulling on me pretty good. We go up to about 105ish and I think he hit his rev limiter, he was about 2 cars ahead by then. I just pulled up along side of him and pulled away to about 115 or so. I back off shortly thereafter and cruise. He gets up on my ass so I just pull off to the side of the road and let him pass .

Buick Regal GS - 1

Escort - 0


I just looked up the specs I'm surprised I did as well as I did

http://www.modernracer.com/buickregalgs.html

 

Exactly how far did you have to race to get up to 115?

This is for you

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/s...hreadid=188338

 

TT&L

 

+1

 

How did you keep up with a 240hp buick regal with a 120hp escort.... And why would you have thought he hit his rev limiter? I would have thought he backed off. Something smells fishy around here....

 

 

 

Thanks for the link, the exact reason why I slowed down when said person started acting dumb . It was on an uninhabited 4 lane stretch of road with nothing but fields.

The time frame was obviously long because my car is nowhere near fast. When I'm racing I don't think about how long it takes me to get there .

1. My car weighs about 2300 lbs
2. That was from a dyno over a year ago.
3. He hit his rev limiter because I could hear the car bogging off it when I passed

 

Rev limiter is your friend.

 

I've driven my Gramps Regal GS a lot and if he was really racing you off the line, he would have OWNED you. Those things have a lot of torque at low RPM and are pretty quick up to 90mph or so......considering what they are.