Got the car back from the paint shop two days late. Turns out that they had to paint and re-paint the hood 4 times because they messed up and it bubbled on them. Anyway, the hood and front facia look almost factory and cost me $50 less than they originally said.
So while I was prepping to leave one of the mechanics at the service center invited me to a street race for his local car club of Korean ricers. I asked our Korean Liaison Officer to come along to translate and a couple of the young Marines caught a cab to the event.
I showed up at this old unused strip of pavement in the middle of nowhere with few houses anywhere near, not knowing that I was going to be the competition for their best driver/fastest car. It was a Korean something-or-another, front wheel drive and a TON of hardware under the hood. It was even painted up with sponser stickers on it. Reportedly, it had been set up to do some official drag racing and was pushing 500hp at the wheels.
I took him in the first race and he got me in the next two. Not bad considering that I had no idea where the finish line was! I got him off the line and had at least 2 car leangths on him until 4th gear in all 3 races. He pretty much sat there and spun out on ever launch (I did in the second race, but still had him). When I hit fourth gear, he flew passed me like a bat out of hell. I thought he had nitro or something. Turns out, he has some sort of two-stage turbo. They kept calling it high boost and said he has to hit a button for it to kick in. Never heard of that one.
Anyway, one of the onlookers had a scanner and said the police were coming so we all took off before they got there. We headed to a different meeting place where I hung out for a while before having to head back to base before the vehicle gate was locked down for the night... Fun times!
