Pulled up at a set of lights nice and gently and proceeded to wait. I wasn't in an hurry and I was driving my 11 year old Escory 1400.
Another Escort arrived next to me. This thing is Max Powered to the hilt, body lowered and enough LEDs to ligh up my christmas tree.
He proceeded to rev the knackers off what passed for a vehicle, obviously riding the clutch a bit since it kept jumping forwards a couple of inches.
As the lights changed, I pulled away fairly gently wanting to not be anywhere near the speed demon if he got anything wrong ahead of me.
..and speed machine revved like a demon and floored it hard. In the rain.
Once I got to 50mph (the limit on that stretch). I stopped accelerating gently. 15 seconds later he passed me at about 80.
As he went past, I noticed that, the side of the car was emblazoned with a list of power-ups you can fit, the tops of the wheels rims were obscured by the body it was so low, that the exhaust was bigger than a pint glass and that the Cosworth sticker was crooked.
The registration was V. something.
Ok, so he lost a lot of time by not knowing how to drive and making his wheels go round quickly instead of making the car go fast, but how much does it cost to make a car go slower than a 6 year older version of same car by *that* much. I haven't a clue what model he had, but you can't get much lower than mine.
As he went through the roundabout ahead of us, I was glad he wasn't alongside me. He floored it through and had stupid amounts of understeer at a slow enough speed that I almost caught up with him. It isn't a particularly fast roundabout so I slowed to 40mph and *did* catch him up.
How do you ruin a car *that* badly and still get it through the MOT?