Heh, reminds me of back home in england when we first started driving. Used to drive down to the nearest rival town in a mini clubman looking for trouble, usualy hard lads to race and hopefully not get caught and have to fight.
One time it was really crazy, driving through narrow streets about 11.30pm when the pubs and nightclub had just closed, wrong way around mini roundabouts avoiding pedestrians doing about 60mph in narrow streets some cobbled. On this occasion, being chased by 3 guys in a v6 capri armed with baseball bats. 2.3 liter capri v's 1.275L clubman, at least we had modded cams, twin webber carbs, stage 3 head, racing manifold and modified suspension. Still, the Capri caught us easily on the straight and actually threatened to ram us when they pulled alongside.
Slammed on the brakes and chucked the car into a built up housing estate. Barely enough room for 2 cars to scrape by. Hand brake turns aroudn corners doing 50 - 60 mph the capri had its back out and was sqealing like crazy barely missing the cars on the side of the road. Once we got into the housing estate, we got away thanks to superior handling. When they were out of site we took a wrong turn into a dead end culdiesack and they weren't far behind.
Ended up turning out the lights and flying into someones open garage. Waited about 10 minutes watching in the rear view mirror. Did see the guys in the capri go past the turning for our road.
Don't know if the owners of the house knew we were in their garage, the Mini was pretty loud with all those mods. But anyway that was one of several amazing real life car chase moments I had as a 17-19 year old in and around Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire :D
Can't wait to get an old mini again here in CA :), quite a novelty here and cost almost $10k for on in decent condition.
You know, it's funny. No one plays baseball in England, but there were still quite a few bats around, mostly used for fighting.
One time it was really crazy, driving through narrow streets about 11.30pm when the pubs and nightclub had just closed, wrong way around mini roundabouts avoiding pedestrians doing about 60mph in narrow streets some cobbled. On this occasion, being chased by 3 guys in a v6 capri armed with baseball bats. 2.3 liter capri v's 1.275L clubman, at least we had modded cams, twin webber carbs, stage 3 head, racing manifold and modified suspension. Still, the Capri caught us easily on the straight and actually threatened to ram us when they pulled alongside.
Slammed on the brakes and chucked the car into a built up housing estate. Barely enough room for 2 cars to scrape by. Hand brake turns aroudn corners doing 50 - 60 mph the capri had its back out and was sqealing like crazy barely missing the cars on the side of the road. Once we got into the housing estate, we got away thanks to superior handling. When they were out of site we took a wrong turn into a dead end culdiesack and they weren't far behind.
Ended up turning out the lights and flying into someones open garage. Waited about 10 minutes watching in the rear view mirror. Did see the guys in the capri go past the turning for our road.
Don't know if the owners of the house knew we were in their garage, the Mini was pretty loud with all those mods. But anyway that was one of several amazing real life car chase moments I had as a 17-19 year old in and around Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire :D
Can't wait to get an old mini again here in CA :), quite a novelty here and cost almost $10k for on in decent condition.
You know, it's funny. No one plays baseball in England, but there were still quite a few bats around, mostly used for fighting.