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NWFRS · 12-11-2013, 02:27 PM

Just one of those freak things.

I was taking my wife to work at 7:00am last Saturday. We were doing about 70mph in the slow lane on I-5 and were passed by a lowered flat-black three-door Honda Civic hatch with an enormous fart cannon exhaust. Of course we both stopped talking to stare because the noise was so distracting. He was doing maybe 75-80mph in the fast lane. About a hundred yards ahead of us, he was suddenly engulfed in a cloud of dark grey smoke. We watched him coast up an offramp, completely full of smoke. It was pretty sad.
Not being a Honda guy, I couldn't say what year range the car was, just that it was all flat black and lowered, with a dark tail lamp and window tint. I felt real bad for the guy, whoever he was, but I had to giggle just a little. I'm a bad man. :-(
Hopefully he was OK. It was SO cold that morning, and so close to Christmas. No one deserves that.
Pretty random story, I know, but it was the first time I'd ever witnessed something like that NOT at a racetrack.

12-11-2013, 02:27 PM	#1
NWFRS Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Drives: ‘13 FRS Location: USA Posts: 1,298 Thanks: 3,946 Thanked 1,503 Times in 635 Posts Mentioned: 17 Post(s) Tagged: 1 Thread(s)	Watched a Civic blow a motor on the freeway Just one of those freak things. I was taking my wife to work at 7:00am last Saturday. We were doing about 70mph in the slow lane on I-5 and were passed by a lowered flat-black three-door Honda Civic hatch with an enormous fart cannon exhaust. Of course we both stopped talking to stare because the noise was so distracting. He was doing maybe 75-80mph in the fast lane. About a hundred yards ahead of us, he was suddenly engulfed in a cloud of dark grey smoke. We watched him coast up an offramp, completely full of smoke. It was pretty sad. Not being a Honda guy, I couldn't say what year range the car was, just that it was all flat black and lowered, with a dark tail lamp and window tint. I felt real bad for the guy, whoever he was, but I had to giggle just a little. I'm a bad man. :-( Hopefully he was OK. It was SO cold that morning, and so close to Christmas. No one deserves that. Pretty random story, I know, but it was the first time I'd ever witnessed something like that NOT at a racetrack.