It always fun to see some unusual looking sports car on the road and give it a run. I had such an experience yesterday. I was driving along on a back road and saw about 150 yards in front of me a black car, very low to the ground, with what looked like 315’s for the back tires. I drove up behind it to see what it was. From the rear, I first I thought it was a kit car because of its unique shape and paint which was not too good. The rear end had a square appearance almost like a vette. The way it rode also showed it had a very stiff suspension. The fenders were flared out over the tires and the low slung spoiler wing from side to side was actually what gave it a square appearance. I’d never seen anything like it. I pulled up closer and saw the word “Porsche” on the back. It sure didn’t look like any Porsche I had ever seen.
The street we were on transitioned into a three lane back country road, with two of the lanes going in our direction. I could see the guy eyeballing me in his rear view mirrors and I thought let see what this funny looking Porsche can do. I pulled up next to him at about 25mph looked over and it was on. Now my car runs 11’s at density altitudes of 5,000 ft during the summer. This being a fall day the temps were in the 50’s and the car runs even stronger. Unfortunately the track closes here when the weather gets cold. Most of the time, the Cobra leaves any other car quite easily but after jumping him, I wasn’t seeing his car in my rear view mirrors as fast as I normally do. But then there he was, falling behind to about 3-4 car lengths when I reached about 120 mph and then he gave up.
After returning home I looked up what it could be and found it was a Porsche 959 which apparently had twin-turbos and produced 450 bhp while weighing 3199 lbs. According to http://www.fast-autos.net/porsche/porsche959.html it ran 11.8’s in the ¼ (probably a sea level time) and apparently this car was not even street legal until a few years ago. I understand it was about $247,000 new. Any way, it was fun to lay a kill on a "supercar" with my humble $30,000 Mustang.
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The street we were on transitioned into a three lane back country road, with two of the lanes going in our direction. I could see the guy eyeballing me in his rear view mirrors and I thought let see what this funny looking Porsche can do. I pulled up next to him at about 25mph looked over and it was on. Now my car runs 11’s at density altitudes of 5,000 ft during the summer. This being a fall day the temps were in the 50’s and the car runs even stronger. Unfortunately the track closes here when the weather gets cold. Most of the time, the Cobra leaves any other car quite easily but after jumping him, I wasn’t seeing his car in my rear view mirrors as fast as I normally do. But then there he was, falling behind to about 3-4 car lengths when I reached about 120 mph and then he gave up.
After returning home I looked up what it could be and found it was a Porsche 959 which apparently had twin-turbos and produced 450 bhp while weighing 3199 lbs. According to http://www.fast-autos.net/porsche/porsche959.html it ran 11.8’s in the ¼ (probably a sea level time) and apparently this car was not even street legal until a few years ago. I understand it was about $247,000 new. Any way, it was fun to lay a kill on a "supercar" with my humble $30,000 Mustang.
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