Originally Posted by tony4380

well guys.... nearly a horror story. late friday night... well technically saturday.. at about 3:35 AM. me and a friend leave Denny's to head to another friends apartment to sleep for the night. on the way there, on the highway, we're minding our own buisness doin about 70mph... speed limit is 55. next thing i know, goin around a curve, a nice lookin 01-02 camaro SS comes out of nowhere and gets beside me, flicks his brights a few times. we hit the end of the curve and theres a good half mile stretch in front of us...

what else do we do? i drop to 3rd gear and stomp it like he does. 4th gear, bam, im a car ahead. 5th gear, bam im roughly 2 cars and change. theres a pickup truck ahead in my lane... i get in the left lane to pass, then change back to the right lane. the back end gets a little loose. i keep control but i let off, simply because the race was over and we were just goin way too fast anyways..... little did i know, the camaro driver must have freaked. next thing i know... i heard tires screamin and bam!!!! he hits me in the driver side door because he lost control and was spinning out. again, his right freont headlight smacks my driver side. this points me towards an overpass concrete pylon. im roughly dpin 130mph at this point and said to ymself "im not gonna die tonight". i cut the wheel back towards the center of the road and hope for the best. i see nothing but the camaro's tire smoke and then we hit again on the driver side. this sends me spinning to the right again but i end up backwards.

we both end up in the grass banking.... my cars nose is rubbing the side of the bank as i slide sideways for the last 300 feet with a few close calls to almost rolling over. as i come to a stop, the left side tires dig in and the car goes up at maybe a 30 degree angle, plops back on the ground. whew.... that was a hell of a ride.

i get out... and my buddy that was following me finally stops behind me. he runs over to me screamin are you ok??? and im so glad your car wasnt the one flipping!!!....

i think to myself ohh **** what have we done. and he says lets go check on the camaro driver. so as we're running over there, the dust is still too thick to see through. his car ended up about 70 yards away from mine. the closer we get, the easier it is to see that his car is upside down and nearly crushed.

oil and coolant is everywhere and we can smell fuel. my friend goes to the passenger side and im running around to the driver side thinkin "im gonna see a body tonight". so the guy luckily had racing seats and a harness. the driver seat was completely bent sideways into where the passenger seat is, so i cant do anything. my friend taps him and he wakes up and starts saying get me out of here theres a 20lb bottle of nitrous armed. as my friends unbuckles him i try to find thenitrous bottle to shut the valve. the nitrous bottle holders had broken and the line was punctured but had frozen over. i still close the valve and the guy finally wiggles out of the car complaining of shoulder pains, and leg pains.

we call 911 and thats the rest of the night. i end up with a speeding ticket 90 in a 55, and the camaro driver is cited for striking a vehicle, striking a road sign, speeding, no state tag, and no insurance.

he goes to the hospital and would have a broken hand at most, and also he was given the breathalizer test and blew a .04 BAL.

the following morning, the reporting officer went back to the scene with the 2 witnesses (my friend, and the pickup truck that we passed)

both witnesses say that camaro lost control to hit me. the driver of the camaro also got to speak with the officer to tell him that i spun and hit him. the officer also advised me to find a good lawyer and to expect a court case because he has nothign to lose by suing me. the officer appears to be on my side because the way he read the skid marks, it only makes sense that hit vehicle struck mine first. he took picures of my car at my house which show first impact and secondary collision.

i will assess all damages to my car tuesday, besides the fact that i need body work to the rear quarter, a new door skin, new left and right fender, and front bumper. the car was flatbedded to my house, which i then drove into the garage. i am very lucky to only have that damage.

the camaro was in pieces. it took about 15 people "me included" around 3 hours to help cleanup.

this is another one of those keep it on the track deals. it was a poor decision we both made and that we will both learn from the hard way.

Originally Posted by familycar

by the way this guy driving the civic is full of it. he says he was beating a ss camaro on a straight away that had nitrous. that is funny!! LOL

Originally Posted by familycar

hate to tell you guys but SS's are low 13 high 12 sec cars stock.. with any mods its definately a 12 sec car and on nitrous at least a low 12 high 11 sec car. i have a few friends with them and i love LS1's. the SS is basically a poor mas vette. even a swapped k20a would get its *** handed to it in stock form against even a stock SS. if that guy had seats and all he wasnt stock. and even if a 13.11 was his best time a SS will run that consistantly stock. let alone modded in any way. i still call BS

Originally Posted by EMK20a2

My bad man for some reason I was thinking of an LT1 SS . Yeah I am betting that he was not on the bottle at the time of the race. I have ran into a couple of the LT1s and they are not to big of a problem for me as long as they are stock