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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and are good to go....beep..
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