You know you have too much horsepower when: 1. The emissions test guy starts laughing as soon as you pull onto the rollers. 2. You can't drive your car in the rain. 3. Your 'significant other' is afraid to drive your car. 4. You are afraid to drive your car. 5. You spend more on tires than on food. 6. You spend more on car insurance than on house payments. 7. You look in a state police car and see a picture of your car taped to the dash. 8. You throw your underwear in the garbage rather than the hamper. 9. You have to go to the track to buy gas. 10. Your mechanic names the new wing of his shop after you. 11. Jacques Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher wave you by. 12. You can make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. 13. You're tempted to wear your fire suit just to drive to the office. 14. Red signal lights shift to green as you're approaching then shift back to red as you're receding. 15. You arrive somewhere before you left. 16. You get pulled over for doing 155 in a 35 but the cops will let you go if "they can look under the hood." 17. You remove the $2000 stereo system to save 6 lb. of weight. 18. You are not allowed to run in the Silver State Challenge. 19. You get an anonymous phone call asking if you are interested in being in the Cannonball Run. 20. Your face looks like you are riding a NASA centrifuge when you drive the car. 22. You need parachute braking. 23. 'significant other' won't even ride in the car. 24 There is no possible way to "sneak out" of your neighborhood at 6 am. 25. Your pets scramble for their hiding spots as soon as the garage door is opened. (Pets, and all the neighbors...) 26. Family photos throughout the house are replaced with life-sized posters of your car. 27. Fuel is delivered to your home: in 55 gallon drums! 28. You carry earplugs in your car.(doesn't everybody???) 29. The only spot on the car which receives any regular cleaning is the windshield. (what else is there to clean???)
I had a short box 2006 Ram 1500 HEMI for a short while. Needed to use 4 wheel drive in the rain. It was one of the scariest vehicles I ever drove because it was uncontrollable in the rain. Got rid of it very quickly. Funny thing is my daughter who is now 16 has never let me live it down, she loved it. At the time I had it I remember going through $175 in gas in 4 days one time.
The night before I got rid of it I let my son who was 16 at the time drive it. I figured that I owed it to him to drive a HEMI , I mean that has to be as good as sex at 16. I sat in the passenger seat when we went out at 12:30 am. At this point he only had the "learners permit" and his curfew was midnight, oh well. I tell him to hold onto the wheel very very tightly with both hands then plant it and the rear end wags while the smoke is just pour off the big meats, his arms are flailing back and forth to keep it straight, I was LMAO! He appreciated the opportunity to drive it.
The following quote has been attributed to Mark Donohue: "If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough horsepower."
Rick
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