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I have to admit I street raced my 8V in and around LA a lot years ago=20
almost every weekend (many, many years ago), It is a rush. That's part of=20
the reason we are no longer together.. Thank god I grew up and realized I=20
was mortal... I survived but the stress cracks in the front end made the=20
car undrivable and unrepairable. No accidents, no wrecks, no tickets, lots=
=20
of broken parts. I was lucky.

I don't think this will ever stop. Sad but true.

-Raffi

Some day I'll try racing again but on a track... I sorta miss it. My=20
current 16V is not even close to what was in the 8V but who knows what the=
=20
future holds  ;-)


At 05:15 PM 8/9/02 -0400, you wrote:
>   A couple of weeks ago, a kid tore himself apart in Laval (north of
>Montreal) in an Accura (no detail given in the news item). He lost
>control, missed a curve, mowed a utility pole, and the pieces ended up
>in a Lumina sitting next to a Scirocco in a driveway. Two of his three
>buddies (all under 20) went with him.
>
>   At the time they did not know for sure how fast he was going,
>estimates are between 60 and 100 mph, in a residential area.
>
>   He had also been spotted earlier that night in bar.
>
>         Jean-Claude
>
>Scirokn InVirginia a =E9crit :
> >
> > Last night, channel surfing MTV's true life was, "I'm a street racer".
> > Kid had 50k in his Acura Itegra, it was a 2.0 liter Vtec puttin out=
 200hp
> > pre bottle and 320 with the NOS. Took him 3 runs to win his cash back=
 but
> > blew his motor doing it. Another kid in a 4-door Accord was smokin=20
> everybody
> > and running about 110 mph at the end of his 1/4 blast, through LA
> > neighborhoods.......NUTS!
>
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