The Joys of Driving an Old Truck.

[toddtheodd]

Originally Posted by '72customdeluxe

They have this one emissions tester on an onramp on I-10 near my house. I floor it just above the kickdown speed into first so that it has to pull all the way from the bottow to the top of second (little rich smelling down low at wot) Driving an old polluter is sooo much fun. I like to stomp on it near hybrids as well.

Picture this (like seriously... pop some popcorn and put on your 3D glasses so you can fully enjoy this)
It's 1am when I finally finish putting the hooker long tube headers on my truck, so I obviously couldn't go put the next mufflers and stuff on it until the next day.
Well... I leave for work around 4:30 in the morning... Yeah... Didn't realize open headers were that loud.
At work, a buddy that has fixed up a couple muscle cars tells me that I have to get on the highway WOT with open headers at least one time in my life.
So... I'm SCREAMING up the on ramp WOT pushing about 75 mph into rush hourish traffic, and it was like Moses parting the Red Sea. I had a pocket about 4 car lengths front and back that was open because my truck scared everybody out of the way.
Then... I end up in the bumper to bumper part of the traffic trying to get to the exit where my muffler shop was, and I was on the highway next to a little convertible something or other... about civic size, and they had the top down.
So there they were... in stop and go traffic... stuck next to the LOUDEST thing they have ever heard... with no escape.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!