Can't say I've killed anything in a Legacy, but my best kill was in my 92 Accord LX at a little place I like to call Crow Canyon Road.
This was our course! I'm not really a freeway type of driver or even a drag race type of driver. I like going fast in corners and driving low powered vehicles fast. On this particular course, I am notorious for being very precise. In my group I am the only one who can consistently touch the bushes hanging over the inside guardrail at speed.
We went out here frequently to practice late nights/ very early mornings and explore the limits of adhesion and car control. But this encounter was not one of those nights.
I am piloting:
1992 Honda Accord LX 5sp
mods include:
Exhaust leak, warped brake rotors (with fresh autozone pads), 1984 Celica GT wheels on the rear, stock steelies up front (haha staggered setup) PGM-FI for vtec-like acceleration
, negative camber up front with steel belts just starting to show from an accident complete with minor body damage from my mom's accident.
The car is complete crap but I knew it's limits really well. I could drive it like an extension of myself.
So on to the kill. I'm about 1/2 way through the course in the afternoon - downhill, going to my friend's house. It was during the week and just before the time when all the crazy people get off of work to make traffic everywhere. The roads are surprisingly pretty empty. I am pleased at this. I'm driving at a moderate pace, paying most attention to finding better lines to take at night, and the current road conditions.
Silver. Actually - Satin Silver Metallic. That's the color of the 2001 Prelude that I catch up to. I study it briefly. Tastefully modified exhaust. Too small to have a turbo further up there, and the suspension is..... stock from what I can tell. But it's quite a step higher than the oozing rubber things on my car that used to be bushings at one point maybe 160,000 miles ago.
The driver picks me up in his rear view. And decided I should be an easy kill. (I would too if I saw my old car in the rearview.) He speeds up. I follow suit. But I had three things this driver did not have:
The ability to rev-match spot on and heel-toe while threshold braking
A high level of knowledge, precision and comfort for the course - including the series of turns and hairpin ahead
And I was extremely comfortable with my ratty 92 CB7.
That series of turns even with my far inferior car, led to Mr. Prelude driver slowing and moving over to the side, waving me by, turn signal and everything. So he was in my rearview by the end of the course.
I had the biggest grin on my face ever until I got to my friend's house
I've also beat my friends 84 supra P-type in that same CB7 (he had a really horrible timing issue) - he'd kill me in it now it sounds like an angry god and I love that thing.
I was killed by my other friend's 89 Nissan Pickup - Complete with that cabin thing on the back TWICE!
Once in my Geo Metro hahahaha
and Another time in my RA6x Celica GT I just bought. First freeway race, my clutch dies, he flies ahead. Damn that truck and it's KA power!
Anyway, we all moved on to better cars over the years but those were the days and they taught us so much![/i]