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Played with a Dakota R/T this morning.

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Old 01-04-2004, 12:00 PM
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I was heading home after getting some donuts for breakfast this morning and played with a white Dakota R/T ext cab while getting on the freeway. I was sitting at a light waiting to get on the on ramp, it's two lanes that go accross a large intersection, then the two lanes go into three as it turns into an on ramp for the freeway. I was in the right lane and had a car in front of me and there was one in the left lane also, then Dakota pulled up next to me. I didn't look over but could see it was a Dakota but didn't know it was an R/T. We get the green and the car in front of me leaves normally while the car in front of him is crawling. I'm going doing about 20 mph when I hear him punch it to get around the snail that's in front of him so I figured I would go too just to see how I would fare. I know he wasn't racing me at first but he was when he realized I was on it too. He hit it first so he had the momentum and pulled to my front fender but that's as far as he got. By 70 mph I was pulling on him and by 80 mph, I had a truck length on him. I backed off becuase I caught the car that was in front of me and the on ramp lanes start to merge and reduce back to two. The guy in the Dakota went flying by me and whipped across all three freeway lanes and kept going. The guy was an idiot, not sure if he looked or not, that's when I realized it was an R/T. He had exhaust but not sure what else (obviously). It was fun!
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When I first got my truck I raced a R/T at the track and it was CLOSE, like in the hundredths, I think I got a tenth on him once... He had a programer, intake, headers, true duals, and some sticky tires.
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Nice kill..... There aren't too many of those here.
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He wasn't expecting a 14.sec. excab. Jim
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