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Old 03-03-2004, 06:46 PM
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I'm gonna get kicked off of here for this but you asked for the last race I had. This past Monday morning I was in a good mood what with the sun showing up. I was in my Peterbilt (550hp cat/18 spd trans) just picked up 24 tons of asphalt. I came up to a red light where a pretty yellow Kenworth that left the asphalt plant just before me had been stopped. I saw him glance over at me & heard him start to spool up the turbos..as did I, the light dropped & I popped the clutch at 2100rpm(redline) I got him by a nose for 4 gears and then he went by me like I was in reverse. I kept my foot thru the grille hoping he would miss a gear but no such luck. After 10 hair-raising powershifts to 50mph we stopped at the next light where the driver informed me he was running a 600hp cat motor that he paid the dealer to turn up - I think he said to 2700ft/lbs of torque AND he had an autoshift transmission- so much for him missing a gear. I think this will be the slowest race anyone will post here. If not, it was definetly the heaviest- two vehicles weighing in at 75,000+lbs apiece and we never even broke the speed limit.
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