By Geoff Hoad: (Photo: Geoff Hoad)
In Reply to: Wide vs Narrow...Good vs Evil...the showdown approacheth by Quentin on August 21, 2002
quite different.....
Quentin, who portrays himself as a quiet, noble character, is as the photo shows, a speed fiend! Yes, gentle readers, a quiet unnasuming man turns into a raving out of control monster behind the wheel of a car.
And what a car it is!
Playing the underdog is not a good idea because the facts speak for themselves. My tiny M50 2.5 litre is up against that known giant killer M30 THREE POINT FIVE Litre engine. A full litre difference, no less. But there's more. This is no ordinary M30. It has the legendary Jim C chip and a ported, polished head. It does 0 to 60 mph faster than a Ferrari. Nearly every drop of Red Line synthetic lubricant imported into Australia is in that car! It has this specialist suspension and I am sure, if you took all the decals off Justin RedFive's racing car, and sat it next to Quentin's, they would be just about identical.
Poor me, I have a tiny engine in a big, heavy car. No chip. No fancy head job, no racing slicks. No American diplomatic friends to commit acts of sabotage. (Besides, we are Allies, he can't do nasty things to me, can he?). My slow changing automatic against his slick manual gearbox. Not fair at all, is it?
If anyone doubts the truth in all of this perhaps they can ask Quentin what happened the last time he visited Wakefield Park and the name of the nice Policeman who stopped him at the roadblock they had to set up because he was too fast for their pursuit cars!!!!
Whereas, I never speed. No never. My car doesn't go fast enough!
So this will be a classic David and Goliath confrontation. Just because my car is Black and I have a proper Narrow Grille, I am being singled out and persecuted.
So all you Narrow Grille stalwarts, rush to the defence of one who has got a proper grille, and support me in my struggle against those who seek to change the proper order of things!
The Narrow Grille Champion,
Geoff