Don
09-04-2016, 07:35 AM
Took my dad for a ride yesterday. He wanted to go to Harbor Freight (his favorite store) and it`s a mix of highway & city streets to get there. I started off nice & easy and he said that the Camaro was pretty quiet and smooth for a "sports car." He`s from the ERA where sports/muscle cars had big cubes, loud exhausts and vibration.
Then we got on the highway. Out of respect for him (he was a cop for almost 32 years and is very "drive legal" opinionated), I only took it to 70 (5 over which is cool with him) and I short-shifted at 5-5,500 rpms. 0-70 was over in seconds.
All he kept saying was how nice the car is and repeating "this sure doesn`t feel like a `6`." I told him I hadn`t even come close to running it to its 7k redline, and he said that it was close enough for him (he`s in his 70`s now w/Parkinson`s and has mellowed/lost his taste for an adrenal rush for a while ago).
He said he was impressed and said how nice and pretty the Camaro is. I told him I`m going to try and keep it this way. Then I took him home and he fiddled with my nephew`s Grand Am, which has some serious brake issues. I`m glad to see him when he`s working on his `vette or one of his grandkid`s cars, when he got Parkinson`s, it really hit him hard and took him pretty low. Now after seeing the Dr about it, he`s unable to STOP doing things, tinkering with something, but he still exercises his "old man`s right" to take a nap whenever he feels like it.
Then we got on the highway. Out of respect for him (he was a cop for almost 32 years and is very "drive legal" opinionated), I only took it to 70 (5 over which is cool with him) and I short-shifted at 5-5,500 rpms. 0-70 was over in seconds.
All he kept saying was how nice the car is and repeating "this sure doesn`t feel like a `6`." I told him I hadn`t even come close to running it to its 7k redline, and he said that it was close enough for him (he`s in his 70`s now w/Parkinson`s and has mellowed/lost his taste for an adrenal rush for a while ago).
He said he was impressed and said how nice and pretty the Camaro is. I told him I`m going to try and keep it this way. Then I took him home and he fiddled with my nephew`s Grand Am, which has some serious brake issues. I`m glad to see him when he`s working on his `vette or one of his grandkid`s cars, when he got Parkinson`s, it really hit him hard and took him pretty low. Now after seeing the Dr about it, he`s unable to STOP doing things, tinkering with something, but he still exercises his "old man`s right" to take a nap whenever he feels like it.