so i'm out driving the Cutlass on the main drag, and i pull up to the stoplight with this silver Dodge Truck (99-ish? hell if i know...). i notice right away it has a very large pipe going straight up the backside of the cab, and that it has the Cummins Turbo Diesel emblems on the doors. hmmm. then i see "HO 5.9L Cummins" painted on the side of the hood (kind of cheesy but whatever) and figure this guy must have some mods done to his truck. maybe it's quick? anyways i didn't think we were going to race, so i just sat there waiting for the green light to come. meanwhile he is inching up while waiting for the green light, which to me indicated he wanted to race. why he wanted to race an Oldsmobile sedan is beyond me, but of course, i'm game

so the light turns green and i get a fairly decent launch. i can barely step on the gas at all in 1st gear or it's instant tire spin. i put an instant 1/2 car length on him but that was probably because he didn't think i was actually going to race. before the end of the intersection i had already short shifted to 2nd gear and then just hammered it. to my surprise he was keeping right up with me but then again i was spinning a bit in 2nd gear. at the end of my 2nd gear he was actually realing me in and i'm thinking "oh noes this guy is gonna take me". however, after i got into 3rd gear/full boost i started walking away from him. i glanced at my rearview mirror just before letting off and there were huge clouds of black smoke behind his truck. we had to have gotten up close to 100mph with me having about 3 car lengths on him in the end. damn fast truck! - a helluva lot quicker than i thought it would be! i'm sure he thought the same about my my car haha.

he drove by me a few seconds later and he was laughing

fun race

it turns out my friend here in town (sl3196 - he now owns my old T2 '89 Lebaron GTS and a modded '00 Grand Prix GTP) works with the guy that owns the truck. he said his mods were "upgraded injectors, fuel pump, one of them tuner things and exhaust. I think that was it." he also told me "He was so suprised at your cutty he called a friend and had him research it on the net haha. Guess he found w-body or something cause he knew the info. He didn't even know there was ever a TGP hah". sl3196 raced the truck in his GTP and agreed it was pretty damn fast. he took it as well but then again his GTP is pretty well modded (it's a little faster than my Cutlass). i think they only raced from a dig up to ~50mph though.

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Joshua Mitchell
'91 Cutlass Supreme sedan - 3.1 Intercooled Turbo/Getrag HM-282 5-speed - 254whp/360wtq
'98 Regal GS - 3800 Series II Supercharged/HM-4T65E-HD - just stock for now