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Did you not read? I was there when they came out. I had multiple friends who had them. Fear? Yeah - driving them in the rain would inspire fear. They were fast for the time they came out and what they were - but they weren't unbeatable or as fast as you remember.
"Other performance cars found a reason to get off the street when you showed up."
I literally LOL'd at that. I guess we had different upbringings. Anything close to stock and off the lot was never feared. I had a 10 second '67 Chevelle that I built pay check by pay check in high school - and that was when a 10 second car you could drive on the street was actually kinda rare. Hell now you can buy a new Vette, and listen to tunes while running 10's with the dealer tags still on it.
True like the an RX7 and on and on... But whatever. I did know two guys who had Grand Nationals. One guy replaced his tranny with an Art Carr transmission and but took it or the strip. The other guy babied it but his wife drove it like a maniac and was always breaking the rear axle...
BTW: Location means something. Even the way we named stuff seems to vary but we never knew as that was pre-internet and everyone was on their own...
Oh yah - I totaled my first 5.0 in the rain. I blame the Goodyear Gatorbacks. Second 5.0 had them immediately removed and replaced with Pirelli snow tires till I got my mojo back and I drove that baby for 18 years.
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