Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
I'm sitting at a Shell station at SR36 and US41 in Rockville, IN this evening waiting on a truck to meet me there. I was picking up a skid of AR-AFFF 3% fire foam concentrate for our fire department and that was the in-between meeting place for us.
Light is red for east-west traffic. Going east bound, stopped, is a 2nd gen 3500 Dodge 4x4 with "Stroke this Cummins" stickers in the back window and sounding pretty good (I'm biased there).
Going west bound, stopped, is a Chevy 2500 4x4 Crew Cab with twin 5" stacks and a Duramax. I could not hear the Chevy over the Dodge and other traffic... which was kinda heavy.
Light turns green and the Dodge floors it and launches into the intersection with a huge cloud of #2 soot. Chevy does the same and produces an equally large cloud out of both stacks. The Dodge is gone... but not before the Chevy barks the tires in the 1st-2nd shift and goes away just as fast. The cars at the intersection no longer have visibility and traffic is halted even with the green light clear.
Obvious some rivalry going on there locally. They must know each other as they circled back around later but not at the same times as if looking for one another. It was as if I was watching a drag race except telling the winner was a little hard since they were going opposite directions.
Honestly I think the Chevy would have won had it been a "same direction" race. It just looked like it launched much harder and was down the road a further distance in the same amount of time.
Moral for me was do not tangle with automatic trucks as they seem to do well in drag racing. I'd be too busy rowing gears to keep up with all that.
Light is red for east-west traffic. Going east bound, stopped, is a 2nd gen 3500 Dodge 4x4 with "Stroke this Cummins" stickers in the back window and sounding pretty good (I'm biased there).
Going west bound, stopped, is a Chevy 2500 4x4 Crew Cab with twin 5" stacks and a Duramax. I could not hear the Chevy over the Dodge and other traffic... which was kinda heavy.
Light turns green and the Dodge floors it and launches into the intersection with a huge cloud of #2 soot. Chevy does the same and produces an equally large cloud out of both stacks. The Dodge is gone... but not before the Chevy barks the tires in the 1st-2nd shift and goes away just as fast. The cars at the intersection no longer have visibility and traffic is halted even with the green light clear.
Obvious some rivalry going on there locally. They must know each other as they circled back around later but not at the same times as if looking for one another. It was as if I was watching a drag race except telling the winner was a little hard since they were going opposite directions.
Honestly I think the Chevy would have won had it been a "same direction" race. It just looked like it launched much harder and was down the road a further distance in the same amount of time.
Moral for me was do not tangle with automatic trucks as they seem to do well in drag racing. I'd be too busy rowing gears to keep up with all that.
