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#1 ·
i can remember back in the late 80's early 90's when you could go out for a curbside crawl with your honey and pull up to the light at any given time and race the same truck as you have .

It just seems like a dang ghost town out there now , even on a saturday nite.

im guessin the cosequences are way too high now , huh ?:tree::tree:
 
#7 ·
Put stacks on your truck. LOL I get that crap all the time driving down the freeway. I have the cruise control set, they pull up bump the gas a few times. I just roll my window down and look at them and laugh.

Record has been spot less for 7 years I will stick to the track.

I understand what you are saying about a rolling start race.
 
#8 ·
Yea I agree stacks will get you the attention you need. Its a daily occurance with me.

And for street racing I dont do that anymore for the fact I got pulled over for street racing and I was lucky cause my ticket said exabition of speed, I plan on keeping it all at the track now and keeping my license!
 
#11 ·
Street racing around here is automatic 6 months loss of license. I have no exp. with that but heard thats what it is.
 
#12 ·
You can't have fun anymore.

Heaven forbid somebody might die...... oh wait.... we're ALL going to die anyway... might as well bore us to death instead of letting us flip out through a corn field and do it with some flair.


I was just thinking about this some more the other day after that thread about something similar where I suggested declining a request to pull over.

What if I built a mid 90's mustang with a 351 cleveland, running twin chargers, putting around 1000 hp to the ground. Run a manual trans, and get it low and stable, and reliable as hell. Black it out, whole care, limo tint, black wheels, the whole nine.

Then just also decline to EVER register the car, or even tell anyone you even own the damn thing (pay for it in cash).

Then, when you feel like it, just pull the tarp off, go lay down the nastiest full throttle passes down the interstate you want in the wee hours of the morning, and BEG a cop to turn the lights on. Oh wait.... you wouldn't want anyone to get a glimpse of the tag you don't have...

I know for a fact that I could play like that for years as long as I stayed focused. Might be a good way to relax, and kill off some stress.
 
#14 ·
For some reason that sounds like alot of fun to me. You really shouldnt be giving me any ideas Charles, seeing that the college I am going to next year is outside of the town and surrounded by nothing but farm fields and a nice long highway ;)
 
#19 ·
If someone can explain how a helicopter can keep up, much less pull me over, I'd be willing to entertain that a bit more.

Yet another question..... how does the helicopter even get into the scenario in the first place?

Was it just trolling along and see a little blip of headlights eating up interstate? Do those choppers just patrol around?

:smirk:

Of course not.....

They have to be called in by..... what? A GROUND patrol car :rolleyes:

You know.... the vehicle I walked away from and put about 10 turns on before it even had a chance to make contact with a helicopter....

Tell me how he's going to alert a helicopter to the position of a vehicle he can no longer see, or hear? I don't think the smell of race fuel still lingering in the air is a valid tracking method....

When I was playing ball, we had a couple State Troopers that always escorted us to every game. I usually ended up eating dinner at the same table as them, and we had numerous conversations about this sort of thing. They are men, just like you and I. And they told me of the times they had no chance of catching someone, and why.

It's not rocket science. I'm not advocating evading an officer either. Merely pointing out how it could be done if one was well disciplined and kept a well focused plan in place.
 
#21 ·
A white mach 1(mustang) pulled up to me at a light and revved on me. It was starting to get dark so I figured I would take advantage of his rolled down window being 3 feet away from my exhaust tip. After a couple revs and him taunting me I finally built up some boost and at the green light, did my thing. What I failed to do is realize that the darkness makes it hard to see cops right behind me through my dark tinted windows. Anyways, you can see the result; the mustang got a good show and I got the red and blue lights. The only thing the cop said to me was "WHAT KIND OF PROGRAMMER DO YOU HAVE ON THAT THING!?" and "have a good night!" Good Ol' Indiana State Police! LOL :doh:
 
#23 ·
Merely pointing out how it could be done if one was well disciplined and kept a well focused plan in place.
If someone puts as much thought into this as you have, I would hope like hell you could get away. Sure if you pre-meditate your plan and have it rock solid, it would be fun. But why? What makes it so different than going to the track and laying down some power? The thrill of the chase.:gethim: There's many other exhilarating things to do that won't land you in the clink and should give you the same rush.

Someone who commits a pre-meditated murder can and has gotten away with them but, then there are the ones who get busted 25 years later because they weren't obvioulsly pre-meditated enough. I don't care how much you think it through, there is always the chace of getting nabbed. You've already made the first mistake of posting your thoughts of "Operation Top Secret Mustang" on the net.
 
#30 ·
you knwo what buddy? its people like YOU that really make this forum suck ass. people that only use this forum to talk #### to everyone else. . . if you wanna waste your time doing that go to www.whattoexpect.com and use that forum all you want. My wife gets on there all the time and always talks about the drama on there so youd fit in nicely. Grow up and have fun on that forum cause Im sick of people like you making PSN suck!
 
#31 ·
you know what buddy? its people like YOU that really make this forum suck ass. people that only use this forum to talk ####t to everyone else. . . if you wanna waste your time doing that go to www.whattoexpect.com and use that forum all you want. My wife gets on there all the time and always talks about the drama on there so youd fit in nicely. Grow up and have fun on that forum cause Im sick of people like you making PSN suck!
 
#33 ·
Your car or truck may be able to out run a police car or the helicopter for the matter but you can't outrun the radios.
 
#35 ·
Very true but if you think about it how can a cop give an accurate POS REP of you when they cant see you or hear you?
 
#36 ·
If you can get away and put some distance between you and the cop right of the bat, I can see how that would make it hard to find you but even if they see you for a half a second, an all black on black on black mustang is not going to be very discreet so you know there going to bulliten that description and then next time you go out youre gonna be called in by some "good towns folk people" and before you know it your getting snuck upon by an unmarked.

Also I appreciate the speed of a 1000hp car but sorry it cant out run a chopper. If that chopper ever locates you, you'd have to have some pretty slick moves, like bat caves, and car swaps, or instant color changing paint or sumtin cuz im pretty sure choppers have a cruizing speed of 120 or so and thats on the low end. Not to mention they dont have to adhere to the twists and turns of the road. And even if you could flat out take off from a chopper how long could you do that speed for. wouldn't you run outa gass in like a few miles and plus 140 especially with twin chargers?

PS im not trying to kill the buzz, just makin conversation lol
 
#37 ·
Helos dont go as fast as everyone thinks. in that movie gone in 60 seconds where he is running from that chopper, that is very very easy to make happen. They are not that fast. The fastest helicopter ever flew 249 MPH. It is also said that if your planning on outrunning a helicopter you need to be able to go over 150 MPH because that is the point at which you will start to outrun it.
 
#38 ·
Fwiw, a buddy of mine used to DD a 1000rwhp car every day.

He had GPS max speeds exceeding 200mph on interstates surrounding Atlanta. That was not in an effort to produce maximum speed either. Just a quick burst to outrun a street bikes.

1000rwhp will hit over 160 in ONE QUARTER OF A MILE starting from ZERO.....

Do that with a chopper......

lol

But the MAIN thing is..... where is this chopper going to come from? Thin air? They have to be called in by people that can't even remotely keep up, or ever even know you existed.


As to getting "snuck up on".

In the scenario I was mentioning.... you would come right out of the gate at full speed. Cutting and carving every turn on your pre-determined run. There would be no "sneaking up" unless the unmarked was an F1 car.

lol.
 
#39 ·
Haha, back to the main idea here. I remember hearing the stories that my uncle would tell us about running from the law, and sometimes getting away, sometimes not. But back then ( 25 years ago) the cops around here didnt care that much. Now, its a whole different story. All you have to do is rev your truck up around here and your azz is getting a ticket.
 
#40 ·
The guys I was an Electrician with about 5 years ago were always telling me about when they were growing up in the city of Chicago and the street races that would go on. I am talking 10 and 11 second cadillacs with 500 CI motors. All sorts of crazy stuff
 
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