Now there are no MOPARS involved so I apologize if I am breaking any rules. It was 1983 and I had managed to ruin a 67 326 H.O. Firebird and a 2+2 428 H.O. Catalina to come up with a pretty fast 67 Firebird! I had my music turned WAY up to hear it over that 428 running only thrush mufflers straight off the headers, if I had been able to hear anything this story probably wouldn't have happened! I was sitting a stoplight when a 60's VW bug pulls up next to me. The driver catches my attention and gives me a hand signal to race him, I laugh and think what the hell to myself. The light goes green and that little red round car leaves me like I never let the clutch up! To make it worse he has made a big aluminum butterfly key (like what they used for very old wind up toys) that has a little electric motor making it slowly turn as he leaves me in his dust!
I had to see what was powering this car! He pulled into a gas station and I followed him in and he showed me that I had just been embarrassed by a bug sitting on a chopped Chevy II frame with a well a well running 327.
Note to self ! Don't over estimate any car!
I had to share this story as it still makes me laugh when I think about it!
