From: cmraman@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Focused on Infinity)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Tora, Tora, Tora!!!
Date: 19 Nov 1992 07:19:34 GMT
Organization: Merry Pranksters of Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu
Summary: yeeeeeeeeeee ha! car wars!


In article <1992Nov18.194938.3728@muddcs.claremont.edu> kaydin@jarthur.claremont.edu (puck) writes:
=
=   A while back, I had in my possesion a 1984 white Mitsubishi Colt,
=a small Japanese vehicle with reasonable maneuvering power.  At the
=time, my girlfriend had in her possesion a slightly larger grey dodge
=of a more obscure make and model, which I forget.
About this point, I thought I'd figured it out. I presume
this Dodge of your girlfriend's was an American-built model?
=   SO:
=    A few months before getting a new car, I took the Colt out, and
=had it painted.  First, two-shades greyish-green, light-battleship
=grey (top and bottom), and then---a large red "meatball" (Japanese
=Rising Sun) on either side.  Along with this, I mounted for a hood
=ornament a target sight, and stenciled several shadows of automobiles
=along the sides, just by the door...
=
=   MEANWHILE:
=    My girlfriend was taking her dodge, and making appropriate 
=American markings on the side...
That's what I thought. yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahoo! rah! rah! rah!
My friends and I did the very same concept when in high school.
My Datsun truck became an imitation Zero (with magnetic stick-on decals of
the "meat ball" and silhouettes of (natch) Mustangs. :) Another friend had
a VW Rabbit with a Maltese Cross (we figured the swastika ws a bit too
much) and similar magnetic cutouts (Mustangs again :). Finally, our
friend with the Mustang had a USAAF emblem and cutouts of litle Rabbits and
pickup trucks on the side. :)
=   It all came to a head on the freeways.  We'd put on pilot caps
=and goggles, and our nice leather flight jackets...Imagine the faces
=of the other motorists, as a nice, wheeled, Japanese Zero comes racing
=down the fast lane, followed closely by an American persuer...I would
=dodge into another lane, slow down, and let her pass, then pick up
=on her tail...when we borrowed a CB radio, we would call ahead threats
=and let truckers ahead wonder about it, then zoom past.
No CBs for us, but I have a flight helmet, and we all had goggles (safety
glasses from chem class). Plus, the advantages of knowing pidgin German and
Japanese. Imagine this nut pulling up beside you with a meatball on his 
door, rolling down the window and shouting something to the effect of
"Yamamoto honda kyoto aiwa matsushita, desu ka?" 
=   One cop laughed so hard, he threw away the ticket.
miraculously enough, none of us got zapped by the minions of the law.
=   One time, after zooming around a clump of cars for a while, we
=zoomed ahead at high speed.  She kept going, and I pulled to the side
=of the road, putting on a backpack and tying a *large* sheet to my
=back.
=
=   The last thing the puzzled motorists saw was a downed Japanese
=Zero on the side of the road, and a poor pilot trailing a parachute
=trudging dejectedly to the call box.
Ah yes, the crowning touch. :) Wish I'd thought of it.
=.kerim.
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Marc Reeve
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"Dragon with matches loose on the town
Takes a whole pail of water just to cool him down."

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