BoostedE21

I was driving home from a crappy movie, when I saw some HIDs coming up fast and low behind me. They slowed down right in front of me (Ka band went off) and I snapped this picture:



I know the picture quality sucks, so let me explain: Those are two of Hennessey Performance Engineering's cars - I live just down the road from them. A Ford GT, and a Lamborghini Murciélago. I think the Murc is near stock, but the GT is a 1000+ hp car. The turbo spooling sound was absolutely unbelievable. I've never seen a vehicle accelerate that fast!

Here's that exact car: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZmFGmIteXI

You can tell by the boost gage on the left that he's not giving it full throttle for a while, because I would imagine it's very hard to get all that power to the ground.

And here are those two exact cars again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gYcvGpG2hg

EJC

Funny, it must be my age.

I couldn't make out the lines of the Lambo, but I said to myself can the other really be a Ford GT, wich obviously you have now confirmed.

The GT40, I'm old enough to remember it, was arguably one of the most beautiful cars ever built.

Slooooooow

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BoostedE21, are you in DFW by chance?
We've a white/blue striped GT that makes several of the meets in the Plano area. It's unbelievably quick.

mcelligott

Wow, we sure don't see much of that in Ohio

BoostedE21

I got to see an original GT40 a few months ago at a track day at MSR in south Houston - truly a sight to be seen (let me know if the pictures dont work):







The RISI COMPETIZIONE 430 GT cars that are currently racing in ALMS are based from that track, and I got to see a few of their cars in the garage:



I'm in Houston - but it's possible that this GT travels around - I have a friend who has seen these same two cars going at it in the DFW area.