This all took place at a company event out of town, and I'm still stuck at the conference. Gossip amongst my coworkers has turned into outright ridicule, so I ended up hiding away back in the hotel room to post these. I'm already embarrassed as hell, and kicking myself for such a newbie error as letting it fishtail in just the lower half of first gear.
Sorry for your misfortune and sorry your co-workers have to be such dumb basses. Probably none of them have had the chance to drive a car with any torque higher than that of a Honda Accord or any other average car out there today. So they have absolutely no clue what it is like to drive a car with 500+ foot pounds of torque. I was very careful when I first got my Viper, but things can happen. About a year after I had my Viper I came out of a hairpin turn too fast and the car fishtailed all over and I though I was going to hit the curb. Luckily I recovered. Another time I was turning left from a stoplight and maybe hit the gas a little too hard or I hit a patch of oil, but it fishtailed all over the place and I'm lucky I didn't hit the curb on that one too. Those are my only 2 near misses.
You may get a lot of playa haters saying smart asp comments to you when you drive your Viper unfortunately. For instance, my car bucks a little bit before it gets warmed up completely and it may appear to a bystander that I don't know how to drive a stick shift.
Which isn't the case, but I drove by my neighbors house while the car was bucking a little and he yelled at me, "learn how to drive a stick shift...." Yeah, OK buddy.
Another time I parked my car in my driveway and opened the hood up to cool it down and avoid heat soak after I got back from some spirited driving. These young kids in my neighborhood drove their bikes by and thought my car brokedown in the driveway since my hood was up and for the next few months the dumbasps yelled at me something to the effect "ha ha your car broke down in your own driveway." Ok lil' playa haters.
Needless to say my neigbors don't like me too much because I have a lot of nice toys. But, I am about the nicest guy in the World, so F' 'em.
Oh, then another time I drove through this parking lot where a lot of people park their nice cars and watch people cruising by off the famous Woodward Avenue. I must have been riding my clutch a little when I shifted from a stop at one point and it must have burned a little cause as I drove by this guy in a Firebird yells "way to burn up your clutch dumb asp."
You get the picture, there are a lot of people out there who will never own a car like a Viper and they have to try and put you in your place to try and make themselves feel a little better. I just laugh at them.
