Good one. I read the other comments made on that forum..silly. Until I read where a few members admit a stock 350Z would not beat an SRT6. AT least some of them have some intelligence.
Oh well f**k um. Who cares what they think.

 

If he raced an SRT6 in November 2004, it would have been one of the first ones out. I dont know when they first hit the street.

 

Would like to hear more about this story... please don't take this the wrong way, but several things don't add up. One, there is no "slk65 blk" - SLK's (assuming we're talking AMGs) came in 32 and 55 variants.

So, the SLK is out... but maybe it was a typo and SL65 is what we can presume you meant? This seems the most likely, since they're $200k (+/-) MSRP. That said, you're comparing some arbitrary used value for the SRT-6 (was probably mid-50's new, and today is worth high teens, so maybe the $25 is what it was a year or two ago?) vs. the MSRP of the SL. Fact is, you can pick up a nice SL65 these days for $70k or less - a lot of dough to be sure, but not $225k.

Now, there's a new SL65 Black Series as well - to the trained observer, it looks a LOT different from a "run-of-the-mill" SL65. Check 'em both out on autotrader and you'll see what I mean. Huge fender flares, vented hood, fixed roof, etc etc. Really built to be a road-course car that's street legal. But, it's a $300k+ car, and they're extremely limited production (and even fewer taken delivery at this point). So, I kinda doubt you raced one - especially with nitrous and slicks already added (no offense).

11.7 is completely plausible for a "regular" SL65, the SL65's are routinely mid-11's cars, and the fastest one is comfortably in the 10's. Once you get down to these times in the 1/4, "wasn't even a full second" sounds kind of funny; a second quicker is a HUGE difference when you're talking 11.5 vs 12.5 (or 10.5), IMHO. And frankly, even a "regular" SL65 is a pretty exotic car to see at the strip...

Just all "my two cents' worth" - take it or leave it.

 

GlockHit's my hero. I think he also writes bedtime childrens books for McDonna. Squirrel Crusher

 

Ive read this post agesssssss ago. This guy throws up kill stories all the time, he has a bunch of groupies praising his over the top stories.. Im sure a TT Z would chop a stock srt6 no doubt. who cares? i dont?

 

lol, i wonder what rebuiild number he is on now?

 

 

Every time I hear that story I feel really bad about that sad 1967 Impala. Not its fault that it was owned by an idiot!

Did anyone check out how poor the spelling was on the Z forum? One more reason I'm glad I bought a XF! You must be functionally literate to own a XF - that guy didn't qualify!

 

I was born and raised in Arizona. This story about the Impala and the rocket motor is completely fabricated and a total urban legend. The AZ highway patrol has no records of any such incident. Oh, by the way, the Mythbusters proved that a rocket car could not fly into the side of a mountain, but that you could strap some rockets to the top of an old, heavy sled of a car and it would speed across the desert just fine!

 

Hey, NEWS FLASH!! GlockHit did not write the story, he found it and posted it for us. He's a forum member! Geez people, pay attention!

 

Thank god .... classic car saved! I know its not the most popular classic car, but a '67 Impala 4 door is one of my favorite cars EVER!!

 

I personally believe the Crossfire backed off, silly to race to the next redlight what does that truly show, some cars are faster on the take off, some have the high end speed... just depends... the driver, the car, how it's geared, the variables are enormous!!

I think, from reading the story the man is just over compensating for what HE lacks and his referenced to sex proves it. He is more than like trying to relive his glory days!!!! LOL

My previous Crossfire owner, bought a 350Z, says he wishes he had the Crossfire back!!! Sometime it's not about the speed it's about the ride.

 

No it was not written by Glochhit, it was written by a man called Going Deep on the 350Z site.

 

I have a really good friend in upstate NY that is currently restoring a 74 Baracuda, you should go and check out his site and take a gander at that ride, man is she pretty!!!! Anyone ever need a restoration, he is your man if you live up that way... Cicero, NY near Syracuse!

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wow , what do u think the Z cost or what he has in it....$350.000zzzzzzzzzzzz.

can i brag about outrunning a Ford Probe ...NOTT

 

so you didn't outrun the probe?

 

So I'm driving home from the gym in my boy Vinny's sweet five leetuh.. And my boy Joey in the back seat is like "yo Vinny, toast this 350z.". Vinny was like vroom vroom vrooooom.. and the chump in the tt 350z is like all, "dude... vroom vroom vroom" and we ****** did stomped him out. crazy bro.

 

justa throwback , just making post never raced ..

 

Sorry, Kim, I didn't mean to alarm; I posted the excerpt for yucks, and the link to the rest of the story:

This Darwin Award is the most popular of all time. Considered true for years, it was later debunked as an Urban Legend by the Arizona Department of Public Safety. The story fooled the judges in 1995, and JATO has been grandfathered in as a Darwin Award Winner. Officer Bob Stein of the Arizona Department of Public Safety receives "inquiries several times a day about accidents, drug busts, investigations we are conducting. Two years ago, I picked up the phone and researched the answer to what has become an Arizona myth. Even after all this time, I still receive about five calls a month from people wanting to know, did it really happen?"

Wikipedia on the JATO Rocket Car Urban Legend; That Great "The Real Rocket Car" Story!; Wired on the JATO story.; ; ; Ron Patrick, a mechanical engineer from Stanford, affixed a jet engine to his VW Bug. He says, "The response... has been fantastic. This car attracts crowds better than any '32 Ford." Myth Busters recreated the incident, but were not able to get their vehicle airborne. The author of the JATO legend would enjoy a cult notoriety were his identity known today. Several claim ownership of the idea of strapping a jet engine onto a vehicle. Read this entertaining 25,000-word mini-novel, Railroad Cart, a well-loved description of what NOT to do if your father owns a scrapyard.
Edson C. Hendricks says, "Baffles me why anyone would believe the JATO story, because it's physically implausible. Attaching a modern JATO to an automobile so that it will not tear free on firing would be a remarkable engineering feat. Anyone smart enough to accomplish that, would also be smart enough to be nowhere near when the JATO is fired! Leaving that aside, as long as the car stays on the ground, the wheels would have sufficient friction to keep the motion straight, although they would probably lack the traction to maintain stability. Once the contraption became airborne, there would be NOTHING to stabilize the flight. Those doodads on airplanes like wings and tail assemblies are not only for style, but to keep the aircraft level. An airborne automobile propelled by an attached JATO would slam nose down into the ground in very short order." (JATO Unit Photo: Courtesy of Jean and NASA.)
Orphiucus says: "This reminds me of a colleague's reminiscence, which may be the basis of the JATO story. He was a military pilot In the 50's in Guam, when two men strapped not one but two JATO engines to the back of a military Jeep. They took it to Guam's 3-mile airstrip and ignited the engines, which hurled them 200 yards down the runway before the Jeep, now travelling at more than 300 mph, disintegrated. The men were shredded to bits, and the engines broke free from the remains of the jeep and darted wildly around the base before burning out. A film of this incident exists, in a military archive or maybe in a shoebox in someone's attic. "

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Scott McClave says: "Andy Granitelli ran the legendary STP Indy car racing teams of the 60's and 70's. This tale is from his book, They Call Me Mister 500. Granitelli had experimented with strapping a JATO rocket to a car back in the late 40's. They first tried just one JATO rocket attached to an open-wheel hot rod, with little success. (Later they discovered that the first rocket was a dud.) Thinking they needed more power, they tied multiple JATO rockets to a single start button. Fortunately for Granetelli, only one rocket fired, which still propelled the car well over 150 mph. That was enough to convince him to stop experimenting with JATO rockets. Why did Grantelli survive to tell the story? Because the JATO of the 40's was first-generation, designed to lift a single-engine Navy bomber off the deck of an aircraft carrier. The JATO rocket of today has significantly more thrust, and is typically used to lift a large four-engine C-130 transport off a short, primitive runway. A car just can't keep the modern rocket on the ground."

 

how convenient