While out on the shake down ride On a freak 55F day here in NE Pa in January early this my boy came along, it was also line lock test time
Put my old 275 MT ET Streets on with the intent this was going to be their last hurray, a long winter awaited date. This started out what turned later that night FF Clip smoke out across the river bridge (wide river, narrow bridge
literally smoking out to a dead stop tail gater behind me in a I don’t know what and never saw again headlights disappeared in the smoke to just faint dots in fog. Right turn off the bridge 1/2 mile to my test strip return run back across the river. My heart was pounding from the near death third gear spin for a 1/4 mile gently gliding back and forth until redline in third (M6) across the 2 lane bridge met with a red light Tee On the river bank on the opposite side. Now getting on the double wide bridge home, I was going to be a good boy thanking God we both (the cat and I) lived through the events of just minutes prior and was going to take it easy, just run her up in third and fourth, well the cars in front of me didn’t get on the bridge, it was all mine, no cars, clean road, but now about 38F out, bald Mickeys, 275’s but I couldn’t help myself, I’ll take it easy. So on bridge, dead stop, set timer, her we go. First and second a joke, 1/2 throttle at best whacked third they started spinning but WOO-HOO we’re spinning and accelerating fast hit fourth when third redlined and I knew what was coming more spinning and so we did and kept it going until both fourth and myself were both spent. A glance in the rear view looked like a napalm strike. God damn I wish I could have had that 5 minutes or less of 3 miles on video, I think I’d still be watching it over and over, was like the very end of this Dodge commercial but I was alone, the only way I’ll let myself get that close to ??? But a bad outcome scenario haunted my mind that night and for days after, I felt like I was given a break and wise up a bit.
This video the kid took before going home which is just 3-400 yards on the left of these black marks.