Funniest email ever.

I was emailed this overnight.

I needed to clean my desk off.

From Newstados Unidos

LOL!

When my 8 year old saw my most recent Challenge car, he said, "Dad, it doesn't have any wheels. THAT should be good for DRAG racing!"

LMAO

This new guy is much stranger than most. Think it's a search engine, or just a canoe?

Sooo... if you go over 17 seconds, then you're not racing?

Definitely draggin a canoe!

All 18 of his posts begin "Hello to all..."

93celicaGT2 wrote: Sooo... if you go over 17 seconds, then you're not racing?

My tandem bicycle pass was 42 seconds, and we beat a car! We might not have been racing against Andy, maybe we were just racing our wway to the emergency room, but still...

There were several Challengers this year that didn't break 17 seconds. I'm gonna say they were racing. Kinda slowly, but racing.

93celicaGT2 wrote: Sooo... if you go over 17 seconds, then you're not racing?

Sounds about right, in practice

Wildly off topic, but it is pretty widely acknowledged in the sailing community that anytime two sailboats are traveling in roughly the same direction - they're racing.

Sometimes only at 4 knots, but they're both trying to pull ahead of the other boat.

The crappy civic vs. the Boss Hong race from a few years ago was classic. One car was never more that two feet ahead or behind the other car, both giving it all they've got, and both finishing somewhere in the 20 second neighborhood. Closest race I'd seen in a long time.

bludroptop wrote: Wildly off topic, but it is pretty widely acknowledged in the sailing community that anytime two sailboats are traveling in roughly the same direction - they're racing. Sometimes only at 4 knots, but they're both trying to pull ahead of the other boat.

Reminds me of the totally legal street race I got into the other day. My Samurai vs a Yamaha RX-Z We were both squeezing every ounce of power from our vehicles Of course when the sammy's acceleration started to die off at about 70kph the Yamaha pulled away...

Hmmmm.... they don't "look" like illegals...

If it was illegal then why is the cop just standing there?

Kia_racer wrote: If it was illegal then why is the cop just standing there?

It's not illegal until they start to accelerate.

Kia_racer wrote: If it was illegal then why is the cop just standing there?

I don't think there is enough information in the picture for us to determine if he is on duty or another "participant"

aircooled wrote: Hmmmm.... they don't "look" like illegals...

THAT could be debatable!

a friend of mine was cited for street racing and the cop wrote on the ticket that they were both traveling under the speed limit. The MV code specifically says you don't have to be speeding to be cited for street racing.

So there is no "perfectly legal" street racing.

A friend of mine once picked up a ticket for street racing years ago. He was in his Series Land Rover and he was up against a Beetle. Think of the danger and the reckless speeds!

I tried drag racing in my Mini. 18.6 @73 mph. I don't see what all the excitement is about On my first pass as I rocketed (okay, eased) off the line, I realized nobody had told me how to tell when I got to the end, or where to go after that. See, it had been a while since they'd painted the lines on the strip, and it's awful dark out in the desert. I just watched the 17.8 second Miata running beside me and lifted when he did and followed him back to the pits. I'm probably the only drag racer who's ever needed a map of the course.

HA ha, Canadians are funny.

Kia_racer wrote: If it was illegal then why is the cop just standing there?

He doesn't have his radar gun, and we all know cops don't/can't do crap without a radar gun. No REAL law enforcement happens with uniformed cops, just taxes levied.

they do that regularly in key west.

Keith wrote: A friend of mine once picked up a ticket for street racing years ago. He was in his Series Land Rover and he was up against a Beetle. Think of the danger and the reckless speeds! I tried drag racing in my Mini. 18.6 @73 mph. I don't see what all the excitement is about On my first pass as I rocketed (okay, eased) off the line, I realized nobody had told me how to tell when I got to the end, or where to go after that. See, it had been a while since they'd painted the lines on the strip, and it's awful dark out in the desert. I just watched the 17.8 second Miata running beside me and lifted when he did and followed him back to the pits. I'm probably the only drag racer who's ever needed a map of the course.

Somebody here has a signature that says "I tried drag racing, but I kept missing the apex for turn 1". It kind of fits what you're saying, Keith.

Hello to all

Low-budget drag racing is a competition in which vehicles compete to be the first to cross a set finish line (or to see who can get the closest to finishing before both break down), usually from a standing start, and usually in a squiggley line towards and away from a very hard wall which is placed obscenely close to the racing surface.

Most drag races begin with a standing (WHEELIE) start and are just 1/4 mile long (1320 feet), but for most of us, they are often much, much less depending on the reliability of the particular year of crapbox that some people consider a race car. Races last between 15 and 35 seconds, with finishing speeds ranging from close to 80 miles per hour, all the way up to just a tad over 80 miles per hour... sometimes, much less depending on how fast the tow truck can pull the car down the track.

Much beer is usually consumed after the event. Also, much beer is usually consumed during and before the event.

Thanks, me, for sharing.