MURTAYA!... (2007)

Clunk!…
The front hinged vertical swing door shuts,
Click, click, the five point harness eased on,
Key turned…..Clutch floored,
Induction....Compression, ignition, exhaust…..
Quadruple Hollies suck for all they’re worth,
Transmission “U” bolts take up the slack,
Accelerator depressed and clutch let out,
Black on black……
Low profile Firestones under four wheel drive torque,
Leave hot rubber on tarmac…..
Following “H”, the guided stick,
Faster in changing than automatic,
Roar punctuated by hiss of turbo dump……
Singing on song……
Four cylinders, three hundred and seventy horses……
In one lump!
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Posted: Jul 2010
About this poem:
I built the all fibreglass prototype, Subaru based Murtaya, that though it was running over weight, still even beat Farrari on the day, doing 0-60 in 3.47 seconds, (It had a top speed of only 192 mph, though the trial was for 0-60 speeds). I later built a much lighter version out of carbon fibre for a chap in Canada, and he was putting a 600HP lump in it....obviously he had ambitions of being an astronaut......LOL...(From when I was a fibreglass design engineer in a previous life).

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Redex
Wonderful, now that I would not mind a ride in, will bring suger lumpslaugh Sorry Andrew being a lady dont know much about inside of cars, liked the read, but a ride in that WoWpeace
Ladybee42
murtaya 1 this is hueston...beep..grin we have a visual...beep..you have hollies and turbo dump
and are good to go....beep..grin laugh laugh
i just love space chat..laugh thumbs up bouquet
andrew149
Yhankyou Lady jj, you are very kind.......Andrew......xxx
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