I had a run in with a Corvette driver in 1989 when I was coming back from Florida. Its 3:30 am, driving north on Illinois Interstate 57. Speed limit was 65 mph. I'm driving my 1978 Olds 88 2 door........
I'm the only car on the road. Cruise Control is set at 72 mph. Lo and behold I catch up to a car and pass it. Its a white Corvette doing 55 mph. I can't see who is driving it.
15 minutes later the Corvette comes flying past me at 90
10-15 minutes later pass and the same thing happens. I catch up to the Corvette who is back to 55 mph. I pass it again on cruise and its out of sight again.
10-15 minutes go by and zooooooom!!! there goes the Corvette on my left side and he /she is of sight in the blink of an eye.
This game goes on for close to two hours. Around Champaign, IL. I even stopped off at a gas station hoping to put more distance between me and the Corvette. Back on 57, I'm the lone car on the road again.
Headlights appear as dots in my rearview mirror........they are getting closer and closer....is it ? could it be? Noooo, It's not the Corvette.......its a new 1990 Mustang GT 5.0 litre.
As it pulls out to pass me, there is a car right on its rear bumper. As it gets closer the silhouette is undeniably familiar - and those pop up headlights!! The Corvette has returned. Both cars roar passed doing 100
Suddenly, I'm alone again on this lonesome road.
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North of Kankakee, IL about an hour later I see red dots on the horizon. As I get close these dots become more clearer to the eye and more familiar as the round tail light housings seen on GM's Chevrolet Corvette.
As I get closer I see its a a white Corvette...Its doing 55 mph again. I move over to pass it - still cruising at 72 mph. As I get along side of it, I began to ponder the situation. I wonder what is running through the mind of this driver. My Olds 88 has a 350 - 4 barrel V8 under the hood. I may have had the air cleaner cover turned upside down like many young men did back in the day to allow more air to be sucked into the carb, and to give that throaty sound when accelerating away from a light.
As the motor was even with the Corvette's driverside window. I thrust my right foot down on the gas pedal, The four barrel opened up to a tremendous roar........and that children is all the Corvette needed to hear.
IT'S GO TIME!! Both cars roared to life! The speedometer on my car rapidly closed in on 85 mph mark (I think the speedometer only went up to 85 on this car), but it went faster than that. In just under 10 seconds the Corvette had gone from 55 mph to who know's what. In the blink of an eye it was gone - out of sight - and out of my life forever. The 2 1/2 hours I had to drive yet were uneventful.
I never saw the Corvette again.
harryface
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