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Originally Posted by Marvb549
I think that there is much more to this story than anyone on this board will ever know. I have an idea in my head that I just have to share. New Camaro owner gets on the street with his new toy and just has to prove its worth. Dusting a Challenger, driving 176  , and who know what else  . My story continues with new Camaro owner running across a car of young teenagers and they also decide to race  . New 2010 Camaro SS is way more car and he blows by and pulls in front with ease, but runs out of road or decides to slow it down. Big Brembo brakes slow camaro down in a really big hurry, to 25 MPH, but Ford in back does not have big Brembo brakes coupled with inexperienced driver and does not even stand a chance. The brake for the Ford is the tail end of a shiny new Camaro.
There are just too many things not adding up. I also find it hard, if not impossible to believe that this guy will get a second Camaro to trash and wreck before most even get their first. I also want to check my meter on that one.
Maybe my story is a fairy tale, but my guess is that if the truth be known, this is probably pretty close to what went down. I am almost positive Camaro driver did not realize the stopping power of the brakes in his machine and closed a gap too fast for any other car to respond to.
Please keep that in mind when driving and someone is on your tail. I assure you, you can stop much faster than they can. |
WOW .... I think this pretty much sums it up. I have to say that anyone who just gets his/her brand new Camaro and goes out and does *cough* *cough* 176 mph
should be shot any way. I would like to give you the benifit of the doubt and think you were on the track at the time, but somehow I doubt it. I stopped on this thread because I felt sorry for someone who hald lost their baby already, now I'm just pissed because I feel that someone was being careless and blameing a teenager ( who shouldn't have been on the road in the first place ! ).
Unfortunately we don't have the whole story, and most likely never will.
I drive for a living, have about a million and a half miles under my belt. That's nothing. I wouldn't think for a minute to take my new Camaro out and race it on the street. I can't wait to take it to the track though... we have two great tracks out here to race on, one you might have heard of , Infinion Raceway. Most of us have some sort of race track within a reasonable drive, there is no excuse to endanger the lives of inocent people out there!
As to getting another car in days ? That had better be
, my wife and I have been waiting since Oct. 13th for our car and it doesn't go into production until this week ! How in the heck can you get a car, wreck it, and get a replacement already ??????? Good grief !!
I have to chime in on the teen driving thing as well, although I am on the fence a bit... I was a careful teen driver, and my first car ( that I bought ) was a 1967 Firebird 400. I did a few stupid things, but 99% of the time I was very careful, drive the speed limit, never raced on the street, and took a lot of teasing for not giving into peer pressure. But, I think I was like a lot of the teens that are posting on this forum, the exception to the rule. I am of the age now that my friends are now having children who are now coming of driving age. The first two have already had accedents, that's 2/2 , one was just a fender bender, the other has totaled two cars already ( and hit a pedestrian !!!!! ). So, It's not impossible for a teenager to drive repsonsibly, just unlikely... maybe the ones on the forum are more likely to doing some research, and a little more responsable....maybe. I hope so. My dad made me learn to drive in his F150, then his dump truck, so anything after that would be easy, before he would let me drive my moms '63 fairlane. I guess if you learn to parallel park a dumptruck a fairlane IS a piece of cake, lol.
The flip side of the teen driver thing for me is that after driving the Firechicken for about seven years while working on it ( I bough it when I was 17, a butt ugly primered p.o.s. ) I has just finished it, frame up hot rod project, had done all the work myself, including the paint, it was a real learning experience, and I learned from a lot of real craftsmen. Two days after completing the car I drove it to work because I had an appointment with an appraiser right after work. While I was at work it got stolen by a teen who thought it looked cool... who promtly rolled it while being chased by the police... it burst into flames and burnt to the ground....
When we went to court the kid had the nerve to flip me off !!! That was quite a few years ago, and I never saw a dime, even had to pay the towing and storage ... so I got screwed by this teen driver for his joy ride, no insurance, deadbeat unmployed parents.....
Sorry for the long rant ...