ProCharged Grandma

[HwyCruiser]

Grandma was down this week to visit and run the kids around while the wife was taking a training class. Great plan except her 2000 Dodge Grand Caravan (224k miles!) decided to dump its fluids on our driveway the night she got in. We put it in the shop, where it sat for the entire week while various pieces and parts came in to get it back on the road again.

Guess what car Grandma drove around for the week? I would have gave her the truck but she can't drive a stick, so the Marauder got assigned school bus duty. :shake: I couldn't justify renting a car for the week for 4 miles a day so I puckered up, handed her the keys, and told her let's go I need you to try driving it first. She's a lead foot in her van, so I had to explain to her not to gun it in a turn or else she'd quickly be facing the wrong direction.

She passed the test drive, so here I was pulling the MM out of the garage each morning and pointing it towards the street for her. I can just imagine the looks she got in the school turnabout but she did all right. Before she left i asked her how she liked the car and she said it was nice, although it was a little loud and I should get the exhaust looked at.

:lol:

[TrainedMonkey]

:eek:
you are a good and very brave man:bows:. i don't let anyone aside form my brother drive my merc.

[ncmm]

now that's special

now check for rubber on the exhaust pipes :eek:

[281cammer]

Wow brave man!! My dad is the only person I'd let drive my Hi-po cars. I'd be worried the whole time, not about the car really, just the other person's safety. I've had my Viper a year, the only other person to drive it has been my dad, and he only moved it like 15 feet. He's more then welcome anytime hed like though

[MarauderTJA]

Word has it she smoked a Mustang GT close to your house:D Did an awesome burnout too:lol:

[Bradley G]

Good man, DJ Share the wealth!
Two times, I was concerned about the Marauder, as it left my sight being sampled by the curious.
Both times were females, neither of them were my mother. :P
The riders of both romps, came back all white and looked like they got tazered ! :flamer:

[hot-rauder]

that is awesome... if my grandmother would get out of her 89 eldorardo to drive my MM i would be shocked... very brave of you but it is better than having her grind the gears and smoke a clutch on a truck lol :burnout:

[TooManyFords]

this Thread Is Worthless Without Pics!!

[03blackvegas]

I saw her out at the track, there was a 12.48 dial in on the window.

[BruteForce]

she said it was nice, although it was a little loud and I should get the exhaust looked at.

:lol:

Too funny! My Aunt said the same thing though she was just a passenger. :P

[HwyCruiser]

The funny part was when I get home the first evening to pull the MM back into the garage, I try to slide in and got wedged in the front seat. The seat is all the way up and forward, the pedals are fully extended, the steering wheel is in my crotch and the rear view mirror is pointed down towards the back seat. It's like WTF, did she let the 8 year old drive it? Man-o-man was I glad when her minivan finally rolled out of the shop.

[ckadiddle]

I really want my dad to drive mine because it's his fault I like big cars with big engines. He refuses to because he is afraid he will have to go and buy one if he test drives mine!

[HwyCruiser]

Wow brave man!! My dad is the only person I'd let drive my Hi-po cars. I'd be worried the whole time, not about the car really, just the other person's safety. I've had my Viper a year, the only other person to drive it has been my dad, and he only moved it like 15 feet. He's more then welcome anytime hed like though

I wasn't worried too much about the car's aggressiveness, just that she didn't curb up a rim or misjudge the width or length of the car pulling into a parking spot. Heck, my F150 doesn't take up as much floorspace as the Marauder. The car itself is a creampuff and gives plenty of warning when you start to get into it. Maybe it's just the nature of a centrifugal blower and the tune. I've actually enjoyed being in the passenger seat the few times someone else was driving it conservatively because it still is a fairly luxurious ride when it's not getting the snot beat out of it.

[Richy04]

Hate to tell ya, but as I passed thru KC, I pulled up next to some older woman with a Henna Rinse and coke bottle glasses and she gave me the finger and said that she would "smoke my ass with my grandsons car biatch".

I was taken aback by those comments but I stomped on it when the light turned green. She loaded the convertor and smoked the car sideways and took me out with my Lidio tune and CAI.

She slowed down to get next to me and I could see her mouthing the words buck foo, I dont know what that means, must be a KC thing..

Did that happen to be your gramma??

[snowbird]

Hate to tell ya, but as I passed thru KC, I pulled up next to some older woman with a Henna Rinse and coke bottle glasses and she gave me the finger and said that she would "smoke my ass with my grandsons car biatch".

I was taken aback by those comments but I stomped on it when the light turned green. She loaded the convertor and smoked the car sideways and took me out with my Lidio tune and CAI.

She slowed down to get next to me and I could see her mouthing the words buck foo, I dont know what that means, must be a KC thing..

Did that happen to be your gramma??

LOL :D JD will be more than happy to hear about the words you put in her Granmas mouth !!!