[speeder]

Sorry for the typos. I posted from my blackberry last night right after the ride. He would not let me drive it at night but said that if I come by the studio this week, he'll throw me the keys. Chevy gave it to him for a little while because, as he put it, "they mistakenly think that I'm cool". GM is big on giving free cars to people out here if they think that it will buy them some cheap advertising.

His dd is a 997S and he's a diehard Porsche guy, he's owned every series of 911 since the early '70s. Before that, muscle cars in the '60s. (Baby boomer). He thinks that the ZR-1 is the fastest car he's ever driven, including a Veyron. It's just bananas. If you turn off the traction control, it just goes sideways when you floor it @ 60 mph.

For some reason last night, I saw a lot of muscle cars on the Sunset strip. When he dropped me off, there was a guy in a tubbed '68 Camaro right next to us that sounded like it was burning alcohol. I schit you not. It had a tunnel ram scoop the size of a small doghouse and rear tires about 2 feet wide, tucked-in. He was blipping his throttle behind the ZR-1 at the red light, but then he had to do that just to keep his car running. It was that radical. Neither guy was crazy enough to street race right there, (guaranteed death or prison), but I was thinking that it might be a fair 1/4 mile race if the Camaro was a 10 second car. After that, (or if the road curves), the 'vette would run away and hide.