So here I am driving home Friday afternoon from work. Kind of dealing with our wonderful Silicon Valley traffic heading north on Hwy 680. For you locals, you know that once over the Sunol grade it starts to open up bit. Well, as I am going up the grade I notice this white sedan with blue rally stripes screamin through traffic. I wasn't quite sure what it was, looked like a Grand Am or Chevy sedan. Once over the grade it takes me couple of miles to maneuver through traffic to finally get behind this guy. By the way, he knew I was coming to, because he was doing everything possible to stay as far away as possible, but to no avail.
I finally get behind him doing about 85 miles an hour, and lucky me the car in front of him pulls into the middle lane and what do you know, he jumps on it. By this time I had downshifted to 4th and mashed it. Well, it took me absolutely no time to close a 4 car gap. We must of been doing about 100 mph, and things got a little interesting when we hit a twisty section of the freeway. Obviously, we are not driving Porsches or Ferrari's, because we both were hanging on around this long high speed corner, with a couple of ripples right at the apex. I gotta tell you, first time I was a little scared in this car. But the Bullitt hung the corner pretty well(at about 85-90 mph). Once we hit the straight, back up to about 110 mph then he peels off. Pull up next to him and its a Monte Carlo SS, either a 2000 or 2001, really nice. Anyway, I pull next to guy to give him a quick wave and he snubs me. So while I'm cruising at about 85mph next to him, I drop it back to 4th and mash it again and give him the old "see ya later" wave. Never saw him after that. Did some research on that model and apparently the new Monte Carlo SS's only put out 200 HP and 225 Torque, but with a 3.8L V6. Felt like I was picking on a little guy. Oh well, it made for an exciting drive home on Friday before the weekend.
Mike
DHG #3463
San Ramon, CA.
I finally get behind him doing about 85 miles an hour, and lucky me the car in front of him pulls into the middle lane and what do you know, he jumps on it. By this time I had downshifted to 4th and mashed it. Well, it took me absolutely no time to close a 4 car gap. We must of been doing about 100 mph, and things got a little interesting when we hit a twisty section of the freeway. Obviously, we are not driving Porsches or Ferrari's, because we both were hanging on around this long high speed corner, with a couple of ripples right at the apex. I gotta tell you, first time I was a little scared in this car. But the Bullitt hung the corner pretty well(at about 85-90 mph). Once we hit the straight, back up to about 110 mph then he peels off. Pull up next to him and its a Monte Carlo SS, either a 2000 or 2001, really nice. Anyway, I pull next to guy to give him a quick wave and he snubs me. So while I'm cruising at about 85mph next to him, I drop it back to 4th and mash it again and give him the old "see ya later" wave. Never saw him after that. Did some research on that model and apparently the new Monte Carlo SS's only put out 200 HP and 225 Torque, but with a 3.8L V6. Felt like I was picking on a little guy. Oh well, it made for an exciting drive home on Friday before the weekend.
Mike
DHG #3463
San Ramon, CA.