[W126 Coupe] strike one up for SEC

[Willardtredway at aol.com]

Everyone:
 
At the risk of appearing to support racing on our hallowed public  
thoroughfares, I share this anecdote which also involved a Mustang...
 
     
I was driving my '94 E500 from   Phoenix back to Houston across the west 
Texas desert. I spent  Saturday night in the town of Marfa and drove north early 
the next morning  to intersect I-10 at Ft. Stockton. As I was entering the 
eastbound on-ramp  I noticed headlights in my rear mirror but since the sun was 
just coming  up and there was no other traffic, I decided to enter the freeway 
in front  of the other car. I put the accelerator to the floor and the car  
literally leapt from 60 to 120 mph as I exited the frontage road and  entered the 
ramp. Looking at my rear view mirror again before I moved left  to the fast 
lane I saw that the headlights belonged to a late model  Mustang GT that was 
hanging off my left rear corner. We were both  accelerating and it seemed 
obvious the other driver was making a race out  of my totally innocent attempts to 
reach cruising speed. At about 145mph  the Mustang looked as if it were 
attached to a rubber band that had  reached the stretch limit and heading into the 
rising sun my mirror I  could watch the Mustang headlights quickly recede into 
the darkness. I  decided that driver was now sadder but possibly wiser.

The car is  Black Pearl and is completely stock. I call it the Granny Car 
because it  looks for all the world like the other thousands of 300Es on the road 
 except for the bulging fenders, the "squat" and the tires.

Willard  Tredway
1979 6.9, 1981 500SLC, 1986 190E 2.3-16, 1989 560SL, 1991  560SEC, 1994 E500, 
2007 Jeep Commander...The Hound Hauler 
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