that's your privilege mr scott but i've been driving for two years now and i've never had a ticket not even for parking and not one of my fenders has a scratch on it now put your record has been for the past two years not a racist competition and besides i'm not even sure that shot right of yours to pass a safety check shock rod ok you asked for what's the best and i'll even give ya never be necessary tell you what whoever loses takes the rest of us to the movie saturday night and how we get to the show by the time big hearted changes mind i didn't mean to the drive in we can all get out the park side i'm going to see what they're playing anyhow well today is it a bet or is it a dead oh ok but you wait and see  usual and doing anything to make taylor realize he was alive he didn't think it was funny and might with his father's brand new hard top he didn't think it was funny there when they told him the car couldn't be ok because the front wheels were out of lin poor mike having to tell his dad to high school kids who rejected a shiny new cars and say his father took to the notion like a duck to a loaner buckshot next morning school and hardly opened when mike's father was there but it wasn't our work at school maureen for instance went out with the rental providers for a final check on the course and they out and bought a course one hundred miles through city freeways country and this being san francisco of course across the golden gate bridge into marion county it was all so beautiful we prayed it wouldn't rain the day of the run little did we know for innocence now the whole school helped journalism classes wrote and we needed art classes designed the posters and the print shop turned itself inside out during the car placards i even typed dozens of envelopes to the local newspapers and maureen was interviewed on v as jimmy was on radio the last big chore was waiting in the cars that were entered because the weight of the car and the occupant is used in figuring the final score saturday morning that he has a run i was out of the house by six and so were lots of others who jammed the station we were to start from where the observers got their final instructions they asked a lot of questions about how to score penalties for any infraction the free at that and attendance mark the filler pipe so they could be refilled when the run was over to determine the exact amount of gas used and then for the first time i noticed the weather gosh if it rains now how could we complete the course in two hours and drivers and was taking a thrill now it have a chance to show a professional how good he was nine o'clock and maureen the official timer marked off the seconds for the first car to start the weather looked worse but this was it and our chance to prove a lot of things to a lot of people jinnie k g character made a real smooth start maybe because a starter was a well known judge making sure we try star turn indicators we rolled up foundation a highway and i saw the weather was getting even worse but with the traffic and having to watch the speedometer and all the other things i had to do i didn't have much time to worry we had lost so much time when the rain stopped it was a temptation to really try on those gas now that we had been through overcast and rain we ran into our next obstacle and trying to maintain the top legal speed strong good ol fog to make a slow down again but then as it always does around our wonderful town the fog washed away and there under there brilliant fan shine was san francisco it there with a familiar steep hill and before we knew it we were into san francisco's chinatown believe me there was literally mist on a hundred miles to or even the much pictured bay bridge in the background and the embarcadero with its tantalizing smells of spices and distant seas and it's twenty five mile sign to slow us down again just when the weather was better and time getting shorter and shorter how about that glad i was down below and not swing up there on the cable despite the beauty of our renowned golden gate bridge when with the bridge not too crowded this saturday morning we were feeling better now about finishing the rent on time down on the bridge itself our cars rolling along later we heard how deep an impression the scale of the teenage drivers had made on the adult observers who all said the same thing once the run was over never in their lives had they had such legal rides but i'm ahead of myself because the run wasn't over yet thanks to the rain and fog we'd been through time was getting shorter and shorter then as then as we headed back to the bridge approaches there it was again rolling through the golden gate fog once more by now it was almost eleven forty and i knew the first car should be back in town approaching  disqualified it really was more exciting than the start with every driver anxiously watching the pumps to see how little gasoline is being used because even a few ounces could mean the difference between a winner and a loser and then we all made tracks inside to see the huge piece of paper on which everyone's car was written after all the boasting i done about doing better than ted i was popping my buttons till i found out and by hand where was my name