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Encounter With A '67 Shelby

So, the other day I was coming home from work, and as I was turning onto the on-ramp for the highway, I passed a ’67 Shelby GT500 “Eleanor” Mustang who was waiting for me to go by since I had the right-of-way. Now, most of you may not know this model by name, but remember that movie “Gone in 60 Seconds” with Nick Cage? This thing is the same car as that mythical Mustang that he had never been able to steal. Yeah, *that* car. I sure noticed him almost immediately, and I was wondering whether he would notice that I had one of the new breed. He must have noticed, because I had moved it along pretty smartly onto the highway and was going about 70 and accelerating nicely, and then the next thing I saw when I looked in my rearview mirror were those distinctive round headlights slamming by me. At *70*, I notice them slam by me like a shot out of a bow. BAM!! I was like, “Holy Christ!!” So I put the hammer down a bit and caught up with him at 105mph…it appears he had got gummed up by some asshole in a black Mustang GT that was driving about 70mph in the fast lane!! Why do people buy fast Mustangs and then proceed to drive like old ladies?? Well, when he saw me roar up behind him, I guess he didn’t like it that I had caught up to him so fast because he gunned it and started cutting through traffic and shifting from lane to lane at about 90-95mph. I let him go. I figured, at that rate of speed and driving like that, if there is *any* cop that sees this, he’ll pick him right up and there is going to be a high-speed pursuit, which I did not want any part of. But you had to see this thing to believe it *salivate* this thing was the original silver color, with the original wheels, and it was *shining*. I mean, just *mint* condition, like he had drove it off the lot *that* day!! I wish I could have caught up to him and asked him, “How did you manage to keep this car so goddamn *nice*???”

Here is an example that is very close to the way the culprit looked:

posted by Darkwand @ 5:42 PM