Who woulda thought

So I was driving along to Harbor Freight to pick a pig tail and I see this Mercury Cougar (late 80's early 90's) driving all crazy in my rear view mirror. He catches up while tail gating the car in front of him and next to me (my left). I'm cruising along at about 3 over (my norm). Well, he obviously want's to run and a 2011 Chevy Diesel fly's up on my ass, ugh. I drop it to 2nd and take off.

I make way to an open spot in flowing traffic and resume cruising at my normal speed. The truck blows past me and then the Merc. Alrighty then.

A little ways down the road traffic becomes to thick for them to be crazy any more and I catch back up. Turns out the Merc is taking the same turn as me. We stop at the left turn together (double left turn lane), but we are not at the front. He rolls his window down as do I. He's got side mounted exhaust and a nice little (little) lop at idle. He asks if I have the 305... really?! Gen 4 buddy. I tell him no, LT1. Light turns green and we proceed with traffic. About a half mile own the road we find our selves at the front of a red light together, side by side. We get to talking some more. His mom had a 5.0 IROC and would get walked on by the LT1's all the time. He took his 5.0 (302) and bored it to 351 and it's "got a lot in mods". So I point at the light and he nods to a race. He was probably about 21 or so.

So the light turns green and I ride it out (manual) from about 3500 rpm's. I squeal a little but go pretty good. I heard his car over mine as he revved and got going. I look over when I flat foot it to 2nd and I don't see him. I look in the rear view and he's is at least 2 car lengths back. Wow! By the time I hit 3rd it was an annihilation, not even close. He obviously didn't have the mods he claimed. But modded he certainly was.

I'm proud of my little LT1 powered Zelda (my car's name).