I've seen Leno on the UK Top Gear, he talks about a very impressive collection. I guess I'm just a sucker for Porsche - I think Seinfeld trumps Leno for the number of Porsches per meter (Ppm)!
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Good video! I loved it. The undercover cop story was awesome. I can't drive those European cars with the steering wheel on the wrong side. I have to shift with my right. Jay is a great driver. I would bottom out on that list. I can't even drift.
My driving experience? A restored 70 Malibu with with a 454 Edelbrock. Black with clear coat paint and gold SS stripes. A custom mod, not a true SS, but it looked better than the true SS. Damn, I wish I had a picture... The odd Chrysler sized engine was so big that there wasn't enough room for headers... but it didn't need them. This thing was a monster. That giant block rhino and true roller rocker arm and a massive sway bar made it a surging tank with massive torque and handling. For large, heavy, old American car frames, a sway bar is essential for performance stability. Four speed with a sweet-ass Hurst shifter. The same guy who helped me make my grow box rebuilt the transmission. But the wide slicked out racing tires were death in the rain from hydroplaning.
I once raced a Harley Davidson on a surface street. This guy was a bad-ass biker on a major, thick, low hog... even had the German spiked helmet. He saw me at a stop light and gave a thumbs up to my car and started revving! What? A Harley? I tried not to laugh and revved back HARD. Then I put it into first and waited, my foot just barely keeping my monster racing clutch in check. The light blinks green. BOOM! I didn't spin out! I shot forward! But so did he! It was awesome! I couldn't lose him! We both topped out at 105 right in front of a shopping mall before quitting. I couldn't believe I couldn't shake him. I didn't know Harleys were that fast. He just threw up a thumbs up and powered in front of me into my lane. I let him pass. What a sight to behold that would have been for a cop, huh? A hopped-up 70 Mally going head to head with a Hell's Angels type on a Harley? Exceeding 100mph in front of a mall? We would have been soooo fucked.
This is a bad-ass video. So reminds me of my car. Just imagine this with a slicker paint job, better rims, and a less exaggerated scoop, and less of a drag configuration with equally large tires in front and back... and that was my car. Of course this drag-tuned SS would have made me look like shite... But my car was just a street race mod, and prettier.
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Other than that, just a Mazda RX8. Not bad for a 40k car. What it lacked in raw driving force from a standstill it made up for in handling. Superior overall in performance to the Nissan Z counterpart. I raced them in my RX8 and they never seemed to be willing to exceed 125mph weaving through cars on the freeway. Prolly just wimpy drivers. The RX8 was really best for stunt driving on the freeway since its quickness and speed (rather than raw power) were its strongest areas. The best I ever did on a non-straightaway was a 135mph on a wide, curving, slightly downward stretch on the 2 Freeway (for those familiar with LA). Pretty smooth too. I could have taken it to 140 fairly easily on that curve, but the scenery starts coming at you so fast after 130mph that it starts looking a little weird... and scary. (Heaven forbid you should hit a large rock or a pot hole at that speed...no, no, no.) 142mph was all I dared on a flat straightaway... and only for the briefest of moments with the rotary engine screaming in sixth gear. Exhilarating. For those of you who haven't driven 142mph on the freeway, I highly recommend it... Especially high.
The engine on that RX8 model year had to be recalled because the engineers failed to build a sufficient safety mechanism to keep the rotary (non-piston drive) engine from just spinning into over-heating and exploding like an overstressed hard drive in a computer. After the "ceiling" was put in, it was an effort to even get it to 135mph... so I got rid of it. After the banana yellow Corvette made me look like shit in the fast lane, it was bye bye little Mazda. Stupid recall.
Once I was easing along at a mild 90mph early on a Saturday morning to score some weed. The thing is, when it's early and you're still sleepy, you're not aware of how fast you're going. You can just leave it in fifth or sixth on the freeway and cruise into the 90-95mph range fairly unconsciously in the RX8. And when this happens, people who drive much slower (in the 65-75mph range) DON'T see you coming for SHIT when they're changing lanes! Lol. I didn't realize I was going so fast and I blew by this poor woman in a Honda Civic as she was trying to change lanes. Not there one split second, there the next split second! WOOPS! As she was quickly becoming smaller in my rear view, my heart stopped because I saw that she was losing control of her car. She jerked too hard back into her lane, and her front-end suspension couldn't handle it. Dual wishbone isn't just a fancy sounding term for a suspension. If you don't have performance handling, you could find yourself very fucked...like this lady. In that moment, "Please regain control" flashed through my mind. She did. I laughed and sped away.
But a paltry 142mph in a Mazda RX8? Hey, that thing is just a neat little toy really. Whenever I saw a Lam or Ferrari or some crazy shit, I just stayed far away and drove slow. Sleezy1, C.E.O. of FemCult, just bought this Porsche Turbo. This thing can do 150mph in its sleep. He said he's gonna let me drive it. Maybe he can teach me how to drift. Honestly, I'm intimidated by this beast.
Incidentally, if anyone has a problem and thinks I'm spamming,
he's the boss. I just work for him. I'm nothing but a glorified foot soldier. Lol.
