Some guy 1:Whats that a chevy?
Me: No, its a dodge dakota R/T
Some guy 2: Man, what kinda exhaust you got on that
Me: Stock
Some guy 3: Man your truck is bad *** wanna race (in 1995 mustang GT)
Me: Sure
Girl 1: OMG can I drive your truck
Me: You gotta return the favor
Girl 2: Can I have sex with your truck
Me: Sure
-I'm sure you guys will love this one
Guy 4: Hey! Can that thing beat a Lightning!
Me: (When I was stock) Uh no..
Lghtning owner: Hey, wanna race?
Me: Ok!!
Lightning owner: Do you know what kinda truck this is?
Me: Yes I do
Lightning owner: I eat R/Ts for breakfast
Me: We'll see
As we hit it from a roll of 20, we stay neck in neck till about 80 when i start slightly pullin on him.
Lightning owner: Man that things got *****, what do you have done?
And I give him the list. No blower.
He was stock and I run 13.8

 

"Man that's the sharpest Extreme I've ever seen. It doesn't even sound like a V6. What kind of exhaust is that anyway?"

 

Punk ricer at gas station : "Is that the new Chevy"

Me : "hell no it isn't a Chevy!!!, if it was I wouldn't own it"


Yet another punk ricer in an Integra : pulls up beside me at a light at 2AM, rev's engine, "wanna get that piece of sh*t stomped by a 4 banger"

Me : tears running down face in laughter, big smile on my face "sure"

same punk Interga after being totally smoked and having ego crushed in front of his girlfriend, "hey dude, sweet truck"

 

In my neck of the woods, the consensus of most truck owners are, you buy a truck to haul, gravel, dirt, sand, wood, sticks, brick, cow sh*t, pig sh*t, cows to the market, pigs to the market, goats and goat cheese. Anything less and you're not worthy of owning a truck.

 

Just tell them you bought to haul a$$.

 

Its a 5000lb truck with a bad vac. line leak.... Wana Race?


Alot of people dont know what it is... Thats where the tag comes in handy.... LOL

 

"That thing got a supercharger?"

Yep

"got anything done to it?"

Yep

"can you pop the hood?"

sure.....(open hood)

"so wheres the supercharger?"


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Another 00 LIGHTNING owner at the track (believe it or not)
"So what you got done to it?"

Chip, filter, Throttle body, muffler

"what kind of muffler and chip?"

Magnaflow, JDM (no Lightning owner I've talked to yet here knows any of the big three)

"Well I got a shop that tunes Lightnings, and I'm gonna have the fastest Lightning in Houston after I'm done. I dont have a chip, I programmed my computer myself and I've got a Bassani exhaust on it. Weve done all sorts of tests on exhausts and JUST the BAssani cat-back gives 18 horsepower. I've got other things in there that I've tuned, and I got a Pro-M filter kit too - those are the best. I'm gonna upgrade my gears soon too. Stock all Lightnings come with 2:08 gears, I'm gonna upgrade to the 3:55 - you got the stock gears?"

Yep, 3:73 - I thought 99/00's had 3:55's

"Nope, they got 2:08"

You dont say.............

(We race - His 13.9 to my 13.1)

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Yet ANOTHER 99 Lightning owner claims he runs 10.2 with a chip, heads/cams and a 150 shot and his "intake mod" (cutting out the sheet metal over by the filter, and BFG radials. He opens his hood and there isn't even the slightest indication that there has ever been any mods done to it. Just a dirty stock engine comp. with not finger prints anywhere.
me : "Well, thats the fastest Gen.2 I've ever heard of" (with slight sarcasm)

 

After walkin away from a mid to high 12 sec. cobra...
Guy in a ricer:"That ain't no TRUCK"!!!!
Me:"Sure it is, I haul cattle w/it during the week"!!!
Guy's girlfriend(The one w/ the Cobra):"That Truck isn't stock we beat those ALL THE TIME (she was mad about it too)!!!
Me: "All it's got is an K&N air filter and MT/ET-streets!!!"HEHEHEHEHEHE

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Black '01
Born on 5-3-01
#3603 of 6381
K&N Box Filter
Sean Hyland UPulley
JDM Boost Bypass
Panhadle Performance Chip
380 RWHP@ Normal Temp.
476 RWTQ@ Normal Temp.
MickeyThompson ET-Streets
JDM Full Exhaust (In process)
JDM Fan Kit (In process)
Tranny Mods (Next Month)
JDM 4# Pulley (Next Month)

 

i pull up at the local hang out...

teenybopers: can we drive your truck?!!!
me: sure thing! (arms alarm and puts keys in pocket..)

still at hangout: (with hood up)
them: is that stock?
me: yeah (yawn)
them: is that the turbo?
me: no (grrrrr)

old redneck: boy, those conversion van/truck places are making some nice trucks now..
me: it's NOT a conversion truck, you ***..
redneck: i like how you did the exhaust.
me: i said its STOCK!

them: how fast will it go?
me: top end or quarter mile?
them: *confused look*

them: wanna race?
me: okay, but you gotta give me $20 up front for the gas i'm gonna waste..

them: will it do a burnout?
me: duh
them: do one!!!
me: it looks the same as every other burnout you've ever seen before..

 

them: thats a nice truck, for a ford.. (expecting for me to give them a compliment on their truck)
me: thanks, ***. (drives off)

cute girl: thats a good looking truck you got.
me: thanks, you aren't too bad yourself. (ducks punch)

MRBBQMAN knows how these southern girls are.. well, at least the nothern-southern girls wont pull a gun on you..
maybe a knife, or spit on you..

ricer crowd: hey man, put your tailgate down so we can have a place to sit.
me: no way jose!

 

I have had this happen more than a couple times at the gas station:

Some guy walks up and says: Hey is that one of them lightnings?

Me: (looks 2 feet away at the large 'lightning' badge on the fender for a couple seconds then looks back at some guy) uhhh yeah.

Some guy: Is it fast?

Me: (looks again at the 'lightning' badge then back at some guy) uhhh yeah.

I am sure you have heard where the rest of this conversation goes...

I guess I just dont like the easy questions or something

Sam

 

"Nice truck man! Are you gonna put a six inch lift on it or something?"

Jeremy Withrow
2001 Lightning
North Pole, Alaska
Farthest North SVT in the world
"Exploring the last frontier at 140MPH!"

 

Pulled up in front of a club and heard some guy in line tell his friend that it was a harley davidson. Same club, I parked @ the front door and was about to walk in when some smart ***, with a little too much liquid courage, came out and instantly began telling his girls how much of a p.o.s. it was and how much faster his mustang was. Thats fine if he thought so and wanted to say it, just not while I was around. Needless to say things escalated very quickly. Countless times people have come up to me in a parking lot or drive through and wanted to know what it was. One guy didn't even know that it was a Ford.

 

I pulled up next to 2 of "them" in a civic that had as much money in mods as the base car cost.Both young "gentlemen"were staring my truck down and laughing and talking smack about my truck to each other.We both had our windows down,so they were doing this for my benefit.I stuck my head towards the driver and asked is that your sisters car.He says ,what?I repeat the question.He says no,it's mine.I say oh really?Well..I guess it's a cute car for a boy too.They both proceed to yell obscenities and conduct sign language.The light turns green and he grinds out first gear while trying to see over the dash because he was laying in a prone position in his seat.I roll off the light like Amos Bluegum going to work.I'm sure he is still telling his buddies how he sucked the metal flake out of my paint as he pulled a vacuum between us.

 

Idiot :Is that your boyfriends truck?
I just laugh and shake my head

This question is only acceptable if it is followed by, "I was just asking because I wanted to know if you had a boyfriend

CA