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I was driving one of the streets on my neighborhood when I saw this Mitsu drop top pull up next to me. It didn't appear to have anything special done to it, but I noticed the driver was of the "fast and furious" variety (young buck). I didn't think he was going to run me but seeing as I was on the road for about 2 hours, had only slept a total of 3 hours the prior night and was ready to get home, I did a typical Jack-Rabbit start. I'm guessing he thought I was running him because I saw him try his best to stay with me out of the corner of my eye. Initially we were side by side, but when I saw that he was trying to run I gunned it and slowly started pulling on him in 3rd gear going about 45 (the zone is marked 35 for whatever reason). We pull up to the next light. He had to change lanes and get behind me to avoid a car ahead of us, so I did the "gentlemanly" thing and pull over to the next lane to allow him to pull up next to me at the next light. At this point I am well aware of his intentions. The light turns green, and I hear his tires squeal in his attempt to get the jump on me which fails, we I'm 1/4 a car ahead of him through 1st gear, and quickly shift to 2nd gear. I pull 1 car ahead of him in 2nd gear and take it up to 50 MPH in 3rd which at this point I'm a good 2 car lengths ahead of him. A good 4 car lengths ahead is another car in his lane so he has to pull in behind me. At this point I begin to slow down (this part of town always has a cop lying in wait for just such an occassion) and watch him get behind me. I downshift to 3rd gear while he's behind me again and pull on him like nothing. As I am watching in my rear-view mirror I see him give me what appears to be a grin of disgust as he notes that a Saturn just handed him his lunch twice. Ahhh I love shaking up the automotive Status-Quo 