A Street Racer's Confession

I seem to remember the good old days, out till 3:00apart, so Vern revs his engine, and the cuda revs his
AM every night, and the most important thing of all,engine, and the race was on, we chewed the cuda
was learning about American muscle the fun way, byup and spit it out, but the excitement hadn't even
experiencing it first hand.begun yet, one more totally amazing thing was going
I fell sorry for the kids of today who may neverto happen before we'd get back to our hang out on
understand the thrill of real American muscle; my firstthe side of the road.
learning experience was brought by way of a 1968On the trek back to the hang out, of course we got
L88 corvette, my god what an awesome car.stopped by another traffic light, and Vern being the
My best friend at the time had just bought a usedman he was decided that he needed to really see
one, and it was around 3:00 AM in the morning, I waswhat the car would do, the light turned green, and
standing on the main drag with all my friends, andVern eased off the clutch and the car started to roll,
who pulls up, but Vern in his new L88 corvette, Iand the he dropped the hammer, shoved the pedal
was leaning against my 1969 Z/28 which by all rightsthrough the floor, the car immediately started to do
was a very mean car, but next to the L88 corvette,360's in the middle of the main drag, the first thought
it looked like a dog.through my head, was we're going to die, it's all over.
I got in the corvette to go for a ride, my first ride inIt sent chills through my body, as he shifted through
a corvette ever, and learned very fast what that carthe first three gears before pulling the car out of the
was all about, we pulled out on to the main drag, andmad spin and back to the straight and narrow, and it
right next to us was another friend of mine is his 426saddens me to think that the new generation of hot
Hemi coda, and as unwise as it seemed to me at therodders will never have an experience like that to tell
time Vern decides to have a friendly race against him.their children, yet I still hear all the time how much
We pulled up to a red traffic light, in the small townbetter those new cars are "HUH".
that we lived in, and the lights were exactly 1/4 mile