Yesterday, I was going to lunch with some co-workers.
Up ahead was a red, 1965 Corvette. very very nice. Of course, the other people in our car asked me the year, they can't tell. Then the guy in the back seat starts declaring his knowledge of performance cars.
He tells everyone, those Corvettes couldn't handle. They could only go in straight lines. Just drag cars. The Civic we were in can out-handle that old Corvette.
This guy's experience with performance driving and performance cars extends to doing 100 mph in a Hybrid, on a trip down to Florida.
I asked him if he thought that race cars existed in 1965 that could race on a curvy road track. "Sure". I asked him what cars he thought might have raced on those tracks. "Race cars". Then I asked him if he thought the car we were in would beat any of the cars. "No, this isn't a race car".
Then I asked him if he had heard of the GT350, or the z/28. He said 'sure'. It was news to him that those cars especially the first GT350s, were actually race cars that drove on the street. It was also news that they used to race them against...Corvettes. It was further news to him that 289 Cobras raced small block Corvettes, and that Corvettes weren't light cars, and a '69 Camaro was a lighter race car than a '69 'vette. "But they are fibreglass!"
He started asking me what percentage "faster" a RWD car is than a FWD car. I eventually just told him "8.76%".
Damn. The dude is 43 years old.