Tell us about any of your street races

[SolReaver]

The closes I've ever been to a street race was passing the garbage truck. If you got any we would like to hear about it.

[4 MAX FUN]

OK. I'll start. This was about 20 years ago. The car was my mom's 3 year old (but new to her) Mercedes 240. I was dicing up moderate to heavy traffic on a three lane, flowing about 30 in a 35 MPH zone (my new friend/combatant and I were doing 55 or so). I zig to the right hand lane as my partner in street crime goes for the passing lane to avoid slow traffic in the center lane. I'm looking over my shoulder to see if I can move back to center yet. Oh, I should mention there is a fourth lane of parked cars on the right.

Well, I look up and realize that the truck ahead of me that had started to slow a bit has, while I was scoping the next lane out, come to a COMPLETE STOP. I also realize that I'll need roughly 8 car lengthes to stop, but only 5 or so are available. I contemplate the massive destruction to my mom's 3 year old MB that's about to occur.

At that moment I spy that coming up on the right is the only parking zone area for blocks around that hasthree spaces in a row, all empty. Youthful reflexes and the gentle hand of God conspire to help me jam brakes for 5 car lengths, release just long enough to gain steering control, snatch the Benz RIGHT-LEFT-RIGHT into the curb lane, and complete the process of bringing this hurtling hunk of metal to a complete stop down from 55mph or so. The car was perfectly parked. God only knows what the crowded sidewalk full of pedestrians thought I was doing.

I STILL shudder when I think of the major metal bending I miraculously avoided that day.

It is for that reason (plus one or two other, only slightly less frightening episodes) that I sign off with...

"TRACK RACING VERY GOOD...STREET RACING VERY BAD"

- 4 MAX FUN

[blatch]

erm, my friend and i raced on my private drive near my house. it was me in a 1987 accord lx vs him in a 1993 Chrystler Minivan... I smoked him like a cigar in fidel castro's mouth.

[b-b00gie]

well in Newark NJ we have street races all the time. It's pretty crazy, much like the new movie coming soon "the fast and the furious". basically about 50-100 cars (depends on the night) gather at one of two specified spots which are pretty much deserted streets amist factories and such. everyone pulls over and gets out of their cars to watch people race. the cops come ALL the time and when they do its crazy... people run to their cars.. take off... 4 cars side by side flying down these roads to get away from the police, you look in your mirrors and all you see is hiper white lights coming at you. sometimes the cops block off the streets at both ends and everyone is trapped, which has happened to me a few times... i usually got tickets for stupid stuff like no front plate, wrong color bulbs, no seatbelt, etc...

i have seen some pretty crazy things there though... seen cars go outta control into the crowds and kill people... seen cars go outta control and crash into each other while racing and kill each other.... you never know who's drunk or high on something and then decides to go to the races. i've seen people get robbed at gun point.. for money and their cars! i've even had the police draw a gun at me, just because they were out numbered compared to the racers.

there was also one night when just me and my friends were at a party (drinking of course) and these two kids get in a little arguement about who'd win in a race... the one kid's turbo charged eagle talon (the eclipse clone) or the other guys mom's nissan maxima. so they make a little bet... whoever loses has to drive home naked and get pictures taken... so the six of us leave the party and head out.. grab a camera... the one friend goes home and sneaks out his mom's maxima and we go line them up... of course the turbo talon spanked him... took him by about 2 car lengths right off the line and then by 5 at the end of the run... so they turn around and head back... talon slowly approaching... and here comes our other friend in the maxima speeding up... (did i mention they're both drunk?) well he swirves around the talon to get in front of him. he's doing about 80 and all of a sudden spins outta control... jumps the curb and slams into a wall!!!

the maxima was totalled!! whole driver's side done.. all the windows smashed.. axles broken... we knew he'd be fucked especially since he snuck the car out.. we couldnt call the cops cause we were all drunk in the middle of no where, and they'd know what we were up to... so we took a tire iron and smashed out the ignition to make the car look stolen and then we all got the hell outta there... no one slept that night... luckily he wasnt caught and everything went ok with the car insurace... but i'll never forget that night and i'm not too proud of what i was a part of.

[primera man]

LOL....Would have loved to be a fly on the wall to see that one

Hope his Ma or Pa dont vist AutomotiveForums !!! after you have just spilled the beans.

[primera man]

Remember one of our street racers.

Waiting for the green light at the intersection in our mates Ford Cortina, another one pulled up for the big skid down to the next set of lights.

Lights go green and we are off...flat out to the next set of lights doing about 130km in a 50km zone....but what happens...the cops are coming the other way and he gets cut off by the other dickhead we are racing and the cops ride up on the footpath taking a few signs etc with them.
So all being a little pissed, we do the big runner.

Anyway....the cops start to chase the pair of us, and we know its us or them that will get caught.
Luckly for us we take off the opposite way to our other petrol head racers and the cops go after them ......but the driver of our car,shitting himself still, decides its still better to get home as fast as we can and park up as if nothing has happened.
Along the way he takes a short cut though the local park, which has trees everywhere.
What does he do next ????....turns his f*** lights off(this is about 2am in the morning) and goes flat out though this park and its pitch F**** black...cant see a bloodly thing.
Tell you what....how the hell we missed all these trees i'll never know. I WAS PISSING MYSELF !!!!!
Leaving the "woods" he's still going like a bat out of hell, and we are all trying to get him to cool it.
We finally get to his street.
He then drives up the gutter,blowing both front tyres out and stuffing his whole front end.
The next day it was in the papers.
The other person the cops chased, crashed into the front window of McDonalds .
He thought he had out run the cops and would park in the drive in so he wouldn't get seen........but he F**** up real bad

[SolReaver]

Man I feel sorry of the poor fool that ran into the McDonalds and the dude who crashed his parents Maxima.

[Azzkikr]

This race happened about 4 months ago. I was playing with some CRX along a two lane road. We were both revving our engines and having a good time. We probably weren't going above 80. We start to pull off the express way and onto another expressway. As we are on the off ramp (well into VTEC) we see a cops parked in the middle of the road with the radar gun out on the tripod. Now we weren't going all that fast because we were on the off ramp but our engines were screaming. Well anyway we slow down to the speed limit and gently pass by the cop. After we get about 200 yards away I see the cops jump into his patrol car and start to come after us. He didn't have his lights on or anything because I think he was trying to sneak up on us and catch us racing. Well I wasn't going to wait for him to catch up to us. So I took my first right and headed up a hill pulling through redline in 3rd gear. After cresting the hill I took a hard left and almost slammed into a curb. I then turned hard into a parking lot and hide my car for a few minutes. Never saw the cop. I can only guess he wen after the other car.

[DVSNCYNIKL]

I was driving home the other night. I have a 93 Accord EX, stock. Anyway, I was driving down the Bronx River Pkwy with traffic just moving along. Along comes this a$$hole in a Teg. Now from the way it sounded, he had the car modded with i/h/e. So naturally I was like, I can still beat him. Yeah right! Anyway, he pulls up along side me and revs, mind you we're doing like 60mph already. So before he could turn around, I take off. Now I am not gonna lie, if it was clear, he would have blown the hell out of me. The only reason I was able to beat him was because of timing. I weaved into the holes before he could. Probably cuz of that head start I got on him. I'm pretty sure he could have taken me out but I still look at it as a victory for me.

On a more depressing note, I had my ass handed to me a while back, about 3 months ago, by a friggin' Neon. He was modded too with the usual stuff. But, I caught up at least in the end.

[ales]

Originally posted by SolReaver
Man I feel sorry of the poor fool that ran into the McDonalds and the dude who crashed his parents Maxima.

So what does this tell you? Do not race on the streets!!! I've heard many stories where both the drivers and innocent bystanders get killed. Take it to the drag strip.

I don't race on the streets now. But I used to. The most enjoyable one was a time where I got to play with a MR2 (mkII) in my Primera. tell you this - that car is light. It was very much fun - we raced from traffic light to traffic light, and sometimes he got in front, sometimes I did. As I don't go more than 25 km/h over the speed limit, it was not the top-speed competition, just acceleration and correct lane-choice. We ended this with me in front (I drive that road every day, so know very well when to change lanes to get faster from A to B) and I flashed brake lights on him ("ok, man, it's over for now") and he pulls up, looks across and gives me thumbs up. Now *that* was nice, quite unlike those BMW ar Merc drivers. Then again, how could this have been differently, when the race started with the MR2 guy letting me into his lane and me raising my hand to say "thank you"

But I don't race now. CU

[PFCfutrell]

A few years back while driving my old car ('91 'lude SI) I was headed up a 35mph road in a nasty mood. A soccer-mom in front of me stopped to turn left and I swerved into the shoulder at 55+mph only to see a parked car! My only options were to A)hit the parked car dead on B)go into the ditch/tree/house C)hit the soccer mom D)pray to god while swerving through the gap between the soccer mom and the parked car. I chose the god route and could have sworn that I hit one of them, I was so convinced that i'd hit someone I pulled over a few miles later and checked my poor car. Turns out I didn't hit either car :flash: which improved my mood greatly. That's one of my many close calls, I used to do a lot of STUPID shit, i'm just glad I lived through that stage of my life.

PS- If you want to hear any more of the stupid shit I used to do (really stupid but mildly entertaining) just let me know.

[blatch]

yeah! do tell! i like stupiditiy!

[TouringAccord]

I own a 96 Accord EX 4 cylinder, all stock except for spark plugs. Anyway, at our High school there is a racing team,"Team Adrenaline", they all have civic's, eclipse's, and integra's... well, it just so happen's the other night, i was driving along and one of the Team Adrenaline Eclipse's is behind me on a 1 lane neigborhood road. We stop at the stop light, waiting to turn left onto the Long 2 lane busy road, when the light turns green, i pull out left into the right hand lane, and just as i had suspected, the eclipse pulls out into the left hand lane and starts trying to make a pass. He pulls up along side me, and sorta stays with me, so i look over and im like alright lets go, so we both hit the gas, going around 30 mph.( This eclipse is a 2.0 4 banger, i/e). So anyway i decided not to downshift, i dunno why, but i started at like 3,000 RPM's, so were dead even, neck to neck going at it, and were just sitting side by side increasing speed no faster than the other, then, comes time to shift into 4th gear, SLOW shift on my part, reaaaaaaly slow, so he got a bit of an edge on me from my mistake, then the turn is coming up and were going 95-100 mph, so we both slow down, and go about our normal driving.... the race was over, he won, but only becuase of my stupidity... Anyway we talked the next day at school and talked about it, and in the end it was alll good, Hopefully after i install my new Intake, i will have a bit of an edge on him.

[PFCfutrell]

So back in the day of my old 'lude we were all hanging around at my friend "Jasons" house when we decide to go to Blockbusters. "Brian" and myself hop in my '91 Prelude SI while "George" jumps in his '92 318is. We're racing through traffic for several miles trading position 'till finally "George" gets stuck behind a soccer mom and I sailed past him not noticing how close I was to the left turn I needed to make. Neither of us noticed that while at "Jasons" house it had been raining a little, just enough to slick down the roads and help to almost total my ride. I slammed on the brakes and started fishtailing down the left turn lane trying to stop for the now yellow left turn signal. I of course did not stop and proceeded into the intersection facing the wrong way and still sliding towards the oncoming row of cars waiting for a green light. Seeing headlights in my rearview mirror I slammed the tranny into first gear and pulled the car out of it's slide and made the right turn towards Blockbusters (remember I did a 180) shaking all the while. "George" didn't make the light and called me soon after to tell me I was a crazy SOB which I thought was funny (you'd have to know "George" to find the humor) all the while "Brian" is telling me how i'm the best driver he's ever seen and that was the coolest thing ever. I am absolutely not claiming to be the best driver in the world, my friend must not have sensed the fear of iminent death as I did and only saw what I'll admit must've been a pretty impressive show of recklessly slinging a car into a turn at too high a speed for conditions. I was shaking for several minutes after that near accident, it was cool afterward, terrifying at the time. I've got way more true stories much like this one, if not even more stupid and reckless so if you wanna here them just reply and i'll do my best to dig into my memory banks.

[StageOneGalant]

With alot of other Goodies**** let's jus say i can keep up with the best of them... Running about 260 hp..and climbing.. don't really have the time to list all my MODS.. But read below that should be enuff to tickle u're curiousity..:smoker2: