Well, we all got off work tonight in a bit of a tiff (had a stove that was a right PITA right before finishing up), so a couple of us wanted to relieve some frustration.
Cue a 2003 Pontiac Trans Am, a 1995 Dodge Neon, and a 1999 Pontiac Grand Am Supercharged playing "follow/change the leader" on a deserted highway!!
I started out at the back as I'm the only one with a lunchbox, so I took longer to get the car moving.
As soon as we cleared town and had an open view of the plains, I planted the throttle. All 132 horses came alive and I blew past the other two doing about 90 and climbing. Got to 105 as I came past the front of the T/A. Pulled in and slowed it back to 75.
Next came the Grand Am. He did a decent flyby at 110 and pulled in in front of me and backed down to 75.
Then came the young guy in the T/A!!
He was doing in excess of 135 (GPS) when he cleared the Grand Am!!
He then backed it off to a sedate 120 and egged us other two on to keep up.
So we did.
I kept to the back to let the boys with better headlamps light up the road (Neons have notoriously horrible headlamp baskets), so I was eating exhaust for 15 miles at breakneck speeds.
But it was all fun until we saw headlights on the horizon. Cue three sets of brake lights coming on and a little smoke from 12 tyres as speed was cut to a "legal" quantity VERY quickly!!
Meh, we were coming up on another town, so we would have had to slow down anyways. We stopped and compared notes as to who did what/when, etc. Then the guy with the T/A did a rather impressive two-wheeled smoke trail leaving!!
Ah, well. It made for a fun (and quick) drive home.....
Cue a 2003 Pontiac Trans Am, a 1995 Dodge Neon, and a 1999 Pontiac Grand Am Supercharged playing "follow/change the leader" on a deserted highway!!
I started out at the back as I'm the only one with a lunchbox, so I took longer to get the car moving.
As soon as we cleared town and had an open view of the plains, I planted the throttle. All 132 horses came alive and I blew past the other two doing about 90 and climbing. Got to 105 as I came past the front of the T/A. Pulled in and slowed it back to 75.
Next came the Grand Am. He did a decent flyby at 110 and pulled in in front of me and backed down to 75.
Then came the young guy in the T/A!!
He was doing in excess of 135 (GPS) when he cleared the Grand Am!!
He then backed it off to a sedate 120 and egged us other two on to keep up.
So we did.
I kept to the back to let the boys with better headlamps light up the road (Neons have notoriously horrible headlamp baskets), so I was eating exhaust for 15 miles at breakneck speeds.
But it was all fun until we saw headlights on the horizon. Cue three sets of brake lights coming on and a little smoke from 12 tyres as speed was cut to a "legal" quantity VERY quickly!!
Meh, we were coming up on another town, so we would have had to slow down anyways. We stopped and compared notes as to who did what/when, etc. Then the guy with the T/A did a rather impressive two-wheeled smoke trail leaving!!
Ah, well. It made for a fun (and quick) drive home.....
Though it sounds like you were a little underpowered if I'm 100% honest 
