someguy2800
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They were - just high school kids who didn’t know anything except what looked fast. Hit a 60mph rolling start and that van could hold its own in a 2 mile top speed run against the milquetoast stock sports models the kids had. Remember, the 80’s and early 90’s sports cars weren’t what we would really consider as impressive - so the competition wasn’t so stiff if I picked my marks wisely. Even the 5.0 mustang of that era was so detuned for emissions, the top end was nearly gutless.
Oh I remember high school main street drag racing well. We had a hierarchy of who had the fastest junk but a 2018 Toyota Camry V6 would have cleaned all our clocks lol.