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Originally Posted by SkyGunner
I am sorta in a state of shock. I have a 2012 ZL1 and within a week two 2012 Shelby's have tried to blow me off what they thought were their highway. First one sorta stayed close off the line in first, lost some ground in second and was blown away when I hit third.
Next victim, umph, harrumph , I mean Shelby was coming up behind me on a major hwy. I watched him going lane to lane, resembling a lion stalking a Gazalle. He finally got beside me at approx. sixty and like a rainstorm clearing, this multiple lane hwy. cleared in front of us for about five miles( Thank You, Lord). We had our windows down and he looked at me with a vicious/pitying smile on his face as he prepared to add a ZL1 scalp to his tailpipes. I gave him the jump and he pulled ahead about two thirds of a car length. I could have sworn I heard the most evil laugh coming from his ****pit. That's when I tried to put a hole through my firewall ( because at that time I thought I was soup, even though I had beaten one Shelby already), nearly broke neck from the torque my small block put out. That was his one second of glory, I passed him and was pulling away, hit my next gear and started pulling away even quicker, hit fourth and he seemed as if he accidentally hit his brakes. Game over.
I have owned " hot rods " all my life, I thought. This beast is tremendous, powerful and OWNS the hwy's. Never has a production car, I've driven, been this mindbending FAST! I LOVE it!
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WAY off-topic, but dang... every time I hear the word "Gazelle," I can't help but laugh. There was that episode of Man vs. Wild, with Bear Grylls, when he took Will Ferrell out into the wilderness for a couple of days. At one point, Will had climbed a tree to look for distant landmarks across the plain, Bear looked up and said, "Hey, Will... you are a pretty good tree climber!"To which Will responded, "Yeah... I'm a gazelle!"That one still kills me...