I posted on FB about the cost of an exhaust for my car and what others have paid in an engine rebuild.

One of my little cousins replies, " oh my gosh, I can build a 10 sec car with that kind of money". AND I know he means a Honda.

I'm not dumping on Honda, I think theyre great, reliable cars. It's just that they're two DIFFERENT types of vehicles! I can make the argument that I can also go 10 seconds on a $6,000 hayabusa!

FYI...he doesn't have a 10 second Honda.

 

LMFAO!

There are so many people out there who think that just because you drive a 911, you must think that you have the fastest car on the road... and strange reactions from unlikely sources. I had a guy in a '98 Ford Expedition acting like he wanted to race me the other day.


No matter what you drive, with few exceptions, there will always be a faster car somewhere on the road. For me it's more about the connection to my car. The visceral driving experience that I have had in only a couple of cars in my life.

 

Agreed. I bought the car because I love the car, and I love drivin it!

Some people....

 

I'd love to see how long a $6k 10 Honda Lasts and what happens after it needs to stop on a dime and handle a series of corners.

 

X2... Hey there are guys on 6speed that think the same way
To each his own.

 

He's kidding himself if he thinks he can make any Honda a 10 second car for $6k. Honda makes some really great cars, but none are anywhere remotely close to that tuneable for that little $.

 

Indeed... I'm no Honda expert, but I would guess that $6k would MAYBE cover a decent turbo and exhaust... and that's not even considering engine internals or beefed up drivetrain!

 

Had almost the same conversation while at the tint shop getting my windows done this weekend. At first the guys were a little stand off ish toward me, but after I showed interest in their "10 second blown civics" we had a fun conversation. Frankly, people just like to feel validated. I told them they would all kill me in a race and that their cars were cool and they seemed pretty proud of that, lol. They then told me I'd beat them in a road course, so at least they had some common sense. Car guys are car guys regardless of budget or taste.

 

SecretAsianMan...got to ask. Is your ID based on that cheesy "Secret agent man" song from the seventies? Every time I hear it, it always sounds like the guy is singing "secret asian man"....

 

Haha yes, it is.

 

That's exactly what I was thinking.

 

Just had to react to SecretAsianMan. Great pun... and one familiar to me.

As a, perhaps, 8-year old kid growing up in Devon, England I used to hear this song often on a BBC Radio 2 weekend-morning program called "Junior Choice."

I used to bounce around the house and the neighborhood belting out "Secret Asian Man" at the top of my lungs. That is until a usually very friendly Chinese fellow down the street whom I'd known since I was a toddler yelled at me: "That's a very rude song and I don't want to hear any more of it."

Of course, he was wrong. But, like so much in this humourless world, things so easily go awry and get lost in translation, no? I have to confess that even now, at 50, when I hear that record on a Rhode Island or Mass. "oldies" station, I sing along with the words, "Secret Asian Man," even when my 997.1 C2 Cab's roof is down. Screw 'em if they can't take a wee joke.

Other 8-year old song lyric screw-ups I am prepared to confess to: The Beatles, "She's got a ticket to Rye;" Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger, He's the man, the man with the mad *** touch" (yeah, creepy that one in retrospect, although at least Goldfinger was the foe of a REAL Secret Agent Man); Dusty Springfield's "You don't have to say you love me just because I'm mad;" and many others. Our primary school choir master always told me I had a terrible ear. He wasn't wrong, I guess.

Thanks for prompting these atonal late-60's/early 70's memories...

Mark
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2005 C2 Cab, 6-speed, 19" w/colour crests, Arctic Silver with blue roof, full blue leather w/crests, Bose, bi-xenons with squirters, 42K: "The Silver Tapir" (the 997 and I share similar nose profiles)