A Surgeon friend of mine, I'll call Dr. Doom, has a AMG CL 65 V12. He is pretty proud of the fact that it makes over 600 hp. Anyway he was telling me how fast it was and that there was no way my Shelby could keep up with it. OK what ever I didn't mention that the Shelby wasn't stock. You really can't tell a surgeon anything anyway and I wasn't real sure how fast his car was.:lol1:
Well fast forward a couple of months and I'm leaving the parking lot and who did I see in the rear view mirror but Dr. Doom and his AMG. So I thought its now or never. So I did a burn out using my line lock. There was so much smoke I lost sight of him for a couple of seconds. Now convinced that my tires were warm I rolled to a stop on the Mexican highway service road. There was no traffic not even a Mexican Donkey cart in sight.
He stopped next to me. I told him to honk 3 times and go. Well he honked twice then nailed it and then honked the third time. I thought: "So that is how you play.":lol: It was catchup time for me and he was a 1.5 cars ahead. I feathered the throttle keeping tire spin to a minimum and passed him at the end of 1st then went WOT at about 75. I quickly stuck 3-4 cars on him and shut it down at 130.
I slowed to a stop. And Dr. Doom pulled up next to me with a surprised look on his face. He said : F**K that's fast how many horsepower does that thing have?" Me: " Oh its a little over 700 at the wheels maybe a little over 800 at the crank." Dr. Doom: "Well damn I thought I'd kill you. Next time maybe I should ask before I run my mouth." I chucked a little and headed back to the Texas boarder. The next time I saw Dr. Doom he asked what he could do to his AMG to make it faster. Maybe sometimes surgeons listen after all. :-D
Well fast forward a couple of months and I'm leaving the parking lot and who did I see in the rear view mirror but Dr. Doom and his AMG. So I thought its now or never. So I did a burn out using my line lock. There was so much smoke I lost sight of him for a couple of seconds. Now convinced that my tires were warm I rolled to a stop on the Mexican highway service road. There was no traffic not even a Mexican Donkey cart in sight.
He stopped next to me. I told him to honk 3 times and go. Well he honked twice then nailed it and then honked the third time. I thought: "So that is how you play.":lol: It was catchup time for me and he was a 1.5 cars ahead. I feathered the throttle keeping tire spin to a minimum and passed him at the end of 1st then went WOT at about 75. I quickly stuck 3-4 cars on him and shut it down at 130.
I slowed to a stop. And Dr. Doom pulled up next to me with a surprised look on his face. He said : F**K that's fast how many horsepower does that thing have?" Me: " Oh its a little over 700 at the wheels maybe a little over 800 at the crank." Dr. Doom: "Well damn I thought I'd kill you. Next time maybe I should ask before I run my mouth." I chucked a little and headed back to the Texas boarder. The next time I saw Dr. Doom he asked what he could do to his AMG to make it faster. Maybe sometimes surgeons listen after all. :-D
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