i always wondered how our cars would do in a chase

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i always wondered how our cars would do in a chase

October 31, 2011, 04:08:38 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29mYZsewgVc

i always wondered how our cars would do in a chase

Reply #1 – October 31, 2011, 06:25:48 AM

Looked like a pretty nice Cougar.

i always wondered how our cars would do in a chase

Reply #2 – October 31, 2011, 06:59:40 AM

Mine would've done better.....if they didn't have radios to call for help.

i always wondered how our cars would do in a chase

Reply #3 – October 31, 2011, 07:46:29 PM

Not with me behind the wheel...actually I wasn't even in the car. But the red car can claim the "honor" of running from the police. So to speak anyway. Two falls ago, before I started tearing it down, I was at a houseparty with people that were friends of my friend, didn't know anyone else there. He and I met at the local car show scene, we performed a lot of vehicular lunacy (Well...he did. I now realize daddy knew every cop in town and a lot of troopers so he felt the world was his playground). He and this other kid took my car to go on a beer run. Two patrol cars were at the grocery store parking lot and followed them out. He booked it, and ended up doubling back off a side road that circled back, and got away. There was a little bid of mud in a couple spots on the lower part of the car I noticed the next day and shook my head laughing, figured he cut through someone's yard or something equally asinine and surely unnecessary lol. But the reason I enjoyed the whole event was upon returning and him telling me what happened, the other guy saw him give me the keys back and exclaimed "Dude that's your car!?" ("Yeah man") "WOW that thing's almost scary!!!!"

The kid definitely didn't know what he was talking about, the "what" being a 15 second car haha. Though, a 3000-rpm converter and 3.73's probably made the wild impression.

......Oh....almost forgot...had 2 gallons on my way there being a cheap-ass as usual...didn't know what was to come...was to come, and when I got there it said E.

And apparently it didn't buck, sputter, or do anything other than scream the whole time. Guess it had the rare stage 5 VTEC fuel baffle we all lust after installed.

i always wondered how our cars would do in a chase

Reply #4 – October 31, 2011, 08:18:38 PM

Perfect song for that video. haha. A couple of years ago I out ran the police in my bird only to be spotted 4 hours later by the same police car in the same spot on my way back through and chased again. Of course I out ran them again. I can only imagine how pissed they must have been.

i always wondered how our cars would do in a chase

Reply #5 – October 31, 2011, 09:10:17 PM

http://www.streetfire.net/video/Stolen-Thunderbird-Turbo_639584.htm

i always wondered how our cars would do in a chase

Reply #6 – October 31, 2011, 10:37:18 PM

220hp on the turbo coupe?

i always wondered how our cars would do in a chase

Reply #7 – October 31, 2011, 10:58:51 PM

Yeah, they make up numbers all the time. There was one in ogden, with a miata that they said was a high performance machine. Other then being a miata, there was nothing special about it.

i always wondered how our cars would do in a chase

Reply #8 – October 31, 2011, 11:19:39 PM

I drove a 1st gen miata once to deliver it to a customer after installing a roll bar. I stepped on the gas to see what it could do.... nothing happened.

i always wondered how our cars would do in a chase

Reply #9 – October 31, 2011, 11:27:33 PM

I went to test drive one for a friend at the dealership, but I couldn't get into it, and he could drive a stick, so I talked him out of it.

In my dumber years, I could have done better then the first car. My stupid phone keeps dropping connection on the streetfire link, so I gave up on it till I can get to a computer.

i always wondered how our cars would do in a chase

Reply #10 – October 31, 2011, 11:35:45 PM

Neither one did very well. Running in traffic is a guaranteed fail anyway, plus dangerous to other people.

i always wondered how our cars would do in a chase

Reply #11 – November 01, 2011, 11:56:31 AM

long time ago when i was young and stupid...is the true.
i and my 88 merkur turbo coupe we are escape 2 or 3 times from police.

now i feel very irresponsible

i always wondered how our cars would do in a chase

Reply #12 – November 01, 2011, 01:25:08 PM

Once upon a time when my car was still stock, I was coming home at about 2 in the morning (no drinking involved) and a truck pulled out behind me. I was going kinda fast and he flew up on my butt with his lights just killing me (shining right over trunk into mirror). This continued for about 4 miles till the turn came up for the road I live on. I live 4.6 miles from the turn and everything between is sharp turns and hills, all locals drive like their nuts on it, I'm a local :D. So I nailed the gas and shot through the curves going no slower than 80 and never saw the truck until this huge straightway by a cow farm. When I was at the end of the straight he topped the hill at the other end with lights on, turns out it was a highway patrol crash vehicle.... I pulled over, got REAMED. I kinda fired back at him about tailgating and his lights eating me up, and that I thought he was a drunk. I got chewed for a half hour but no ticket. He thought I was a drunk and I thought he was a drunk, go figure lol.

i always wondered how our cars would do in a chase

Reply #13 – November 02, 2011, 12:57:49 PM

I was cruising around in the town I work in, about 5 miles away in my white Tbird...this would've been in early 2005, right after I bought it. Anyway, the cops had this house surrounded. I was sitting in front of a friends house just down the block. I went to leave, and to head to the road out of town I would've either had to turn around and drive thru all of downtown to get to the 4 lane....or drive past the cops and the commotion to head for the gravel. I chose gravel.

Apparently I made the fuzz question my motive, because one immediately sprinted to his cruiser and followed me without lights/siren to the 4 way stop, where Brookfield city limits end. To show my annoyance, I rolled thru the stop sign at about 5 mph (it was well after dark, had a good line of sight both ways, no oncoming traffic, etc). The cop sits there, doesn't give chase, but I know I wasn't getting off that easy. I was on a gravel road at that point, so I nailed it (as much as a worn out 3.8 'Bird can be nailed heh) and hauled ass to the blacktop that connects to the gravel road I lived on. Once I was on the blacktop, and well over 85 (again, no other traffic, as it was rather late) I met a deputy who was also head the other way at a high rate. He flipped a u turn, and I took that as my cue to get my ass home NOW.

Once I got to my gravel road, I left a trail of dust so thick there was no way in hell he was gonna catch me, until I stopped.

I got home, parked the Bird in a tractor shed and was letting my dog out when the deputy drove up, put his spotlight on me and yelled "Beau, slow the f*ck down!"

I was dumb, and had I been in a truly fast car, or there'd been traffic (or a deer) well.....

Running from cops is ignorant. Running stop signs is ignorant.
Learn from ignorant people. Especially when they didn't even do anything wrong. (Up till i rolled through the stop..)

That's the moral of my story. :-/

i always wondered how our cars would do in a chase

Reply #14 – November 03, 2011, 01:52:44 AM

Quote from: gumby;371637

http://www.streetfire.net/video/Stolen-Thunderbird-Turbo_639584.htm

Of course the 'stang caught up, he had a cop motor, cop tires, cop suspensions, and cop shocks :dunno: