Quote from: BDT 739 on July 18, 2024, 07:12:58 PMYears ago, I took a young person visiting the United States from Austria on a eventful ride and he was almost speechless saying it was like a ride at six flags.I have a similar story. Our company's Quality VP was visiting our off-site and needed a ride back to our main plant. I was heading that way and offered to take him. He'd immigrated from India about 15 years prior and in all that time had never experience a performance car.
We climbed into my '65 Mustang Fastback with a modified engine and soon got caught at a red light. We were waiting for a left turn in at this lightly traveled intersection. He noted the rumble from the Mustang's engine and asked, "What motor do you have in this?"
I replied, "It's a 289 V-8."
"289? What is that in liters?"
"About 5 liters"
His eyes widened. He said, "My car only has 1.6 liters! Is it fast?"
"Would you like me to show you?"
"Sure!"
The light turned green. I launched into a smokey power-drift around the corner, let it hook up and continued up to about 50 MPH. He was hanging on with a huge grin on his face. "That was like a carnival ride!"
2 months later, instead of a Toyota, he was driving a BMW M3 to work. I like to think I brought another one into the fold.