FordPlay

Ouch, how much $ worth of damage? I hope everything turns out Ok, and how is she going to thank you for smashing the L?

There are not to many people I would let drive the L when(if)I get it. I guess I have to let my friend drive it, after all he let me drive his 500HP 69 442, wow was that fun.I guess my dad can drive it, he let me take his 67 vette to my senior prom, just wish he still had it. About the only other person who will ever drive it is Keith who sets me up with great Nascar tickets every year. Besides that no one will ever drive the L unless they have something better to trade if they smack it up.

 

Billy What can I say...ya know. You had collateral

Kristi,
Amen to that.
I would sooner let the few girls I hang out with drive the Lightning because I know they wouldn't be out to prove something then I would the guys...and NEVER...EVER would I say the word GET ON IT with somebody else behind the wheel of my baby

CA

 

Hi folks, my wife can drive my L just fine. She even smoked the tires a couple of times (on purpose!). You have to know when to let off when it starts getting loose.

 

CA, why yes, I do have some comments for this one

Maybe I just don't understand the situation thoroughly since I don't have that particular body part to think with...

It took me a LONG time before I would even consider letting someone I loved (past tense) drive my baby. And it was running low 11s@119 at the time. But again, I'm lacking for those thinking body parts

A woman brave enough to stand on the gas in someone else's Lightning should have been equipped enough to handle spinnage. I wonder if she's blonde?

That's all for now..
Trace

 

Heavens to mergatroid hehe I knew that was coming, saw it a mile and a half off
CA

 

Please........I wouldnt even let my mother drive my L.............much less some girl that i didnt even know..............anyways sorry about your bump up dude......hope it isnt red......if it is....sorry about your two tone...................

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red 1994 lightning....oh my god i never expected this thing to keep running this long......130,000 miles and still running strong.........

00 white L...JL filter kit and more mods on the way....

 

Hummm...much more civil response from CA than i was expecting.
BTW,there are a few women i'd let drive my L. Especially since one of them let me drive HERS.

Billy

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90 LX coupe 393ci
93 LX hatch 357ci
99 Red Lightning #389

 

FordPlay needs to learn a cheaper kind of FOREPLAY.

 

Yes, it certainly is stupid to let someone drive your 'Bolt who isn't used to light-azzed RWD vehicles with grossly excessive horsepower. But it sure is fun to watch their reaction when they mash it to the floor.

I've only let two other people take the wheel. The wife has never had a turn, although I've let her idle it out of the garage when I had "soiled hands or shoes". No throttle allowed, though. Just brake and idle.

I let my brother-in-law take a pass at the 'strip. His comments were something like "...yeah, it's OK, not quite as fast as my (modded '93) Cobra...", which he proceeded to prove on the next side-by-side pass. Not too much fun, certainly not worth letting somebody defile my baby.

The only other person to ever take the wheel was my favorite cousin Torsten from Denmark. The Danes' idea of a hot rod is something like a Pugeot 205 with an extra hamster or two on the treadmill. I can honestly say that he'd never been behind the wheel of ANYTHING with 100 flywheel horsepower, except maybe his dad's giant turbodiesel tractor. Anyway, he didn't seem to think I was serious on the offer, but eventually took the wheel and GINGERLY pulled out and lugged the thing down the road at about 1/16 throttle and 45 mph. Boost gauge on the peg (not the "good peg", either). Anyway, we kept up this farce for a mile or two, before I ORDERED him to stand hard on the accelerator with both feet. Stupid, and an invitation to a fiery wreck, but well worth it in retrospect. Rapid counterclockwise rotation of the boost gauge, howling from under the hood, flattening of eyeballs, and accompanying rapid clockwise rotation of speedometer needle. His comments (for several months afterward) were a hoot, to say the least.

It's all about the "risk-to-benefit ratio", I guess. Select wisely when you offer someone the wheel.

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Silver Y2K Lightning
Bone Stock w/ Duraliner, Ford Hitch Cover

Best 60-foot: 2.063
Best 1/8: 8.876
Best 1/4: 13.789
Best MPH: 99.67

Silver (matching) Y2K ML320 Benz
Burl (ML430) Shift ****
G-Tech 16.4 @ 88

1992 Grand Prix SE
Commuter Mule, G-Tech 17.3 @ 81

 

Sorry guys/gals for not replying over the weekend, I was at the Auto-Show here in Detroit looking at the 2001 Lightning. When she hit the gas 35mph, the truck went sideways, she froze, we jumped the curb, I grabbed the wheel aimed it back onto the road but unfortunately as the ***-end was sliding sideways it caught a tree in the median. Only grabbed the bumper and twisted it all around! LUCKY! did do a little fiberglass damage right where the rear bumper wrapes around the corner. And "YES" the truck is red!!
And "YES" she is going to dinner w/me to make up for it. Dinner and some ? HE HE!!

 

There is a fine line between courage and stupidity.
There is also an awful lot of ignorance out there as to just how powerful these trucks are and how dangerous they can be with an ignorant and/or stupid person behind the wheel.
I had a female friend ask to take my L down the 1/4 mi a few weeks ago. I said no because while she was "brave" enough to want to try it, she was also ignorant of how to deal with wheelspin and of what to do if the truck got squirrely. I'd rather have a temporarily insulted friend than a wrecked vehicle. Perhaps I'm a bit more paranoid than the average L owner, but I once let a guy I raced with make a pass in my wagon and even after I told him, "No matter how high it picks the wheels up, do NOT lift," this "brave" AND experienced guy panicked when the front wheels were 3 feet in the air and lifted. The car slammed down and bent up the oil pan.
These are people I know very well. It would be a cold day in hell before I let anyone I JUST met (at a bar, no less) drive anything I owned. But like Trace, I fortunately lack that second, thinking body part so I can't completely relate.

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~Black '00 Lightning
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13.28@102.5 1.94 60ft
~1966 Chevy II Wagon
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~2000 Mitsubishi Galant GTZ
~1999 GMC Sierra
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I guess i'm a little more "open" than most people. I let "HER" drive my truck. She definately wasn't a tom-boy type that likes racing around. I told her to hit it because she wasn't doing anything but driving! My bad!
If I were to hand the keys to some guy in the bar, I can gaurantee that within the first 1/4 mile of road the gas pedal would have been mashed. There is a difference!!!

 

Um, you have to be a tomboy to like racing?
I guess I didn't get THAT memo!
Do any of you other ladies want to deal with that comment?

 

First, being tomboyish isn't a slam!
Second, I should have worded it different so I didn't affend anyone.
Third, the person I let drive my truck was not ignorant nor stupid as stated in your last reply.
"and how dangerous they can be with an ignorant and/or stupid person behind the wheel."

I guess I didn't get THAT memo!

 

The tomboy thing got ya but this didn't bother you at all?