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  • Wow.

  • Me and my dad built her.

  • Nine hundred horses of Detroit muscle.

  • lt's a beast. Know what she ran in Palmdale?

  • No. What did she run?

  • Nine seconds flat.

  • - God. - Mydad was driving.

  • So much torque, the chassis twisted coming offthe line.

  • - [ Chuckles ] - Barely kept heron the track.

  • So, what's your best time?

  • - l've never driven her. - Why not?

  • lt scares the shit out ofme.

  • That's my dad.

  • He was comin' up in the pro stock car circuit.

  • Last race ofthe season.

  • Ah, a guy named Kenny Linder came up from inside...

  • in the final turn.

  • He clipped his bumper and put him into the wall at 1 20.

  • Um...

  • l watched my dad burn to death.

  • l remembered hearing him scream.

  • But the people that were there said that he had died before the tanks blew.

  • They said it was me who was screaming.

  • l saw Linder about a week later.

  • l had a wrench...

  • and l hit him.

  • And l didn't intend to keep hitting him...

  • but by the time l was done, l couldn't lift my arm.

  • He's ajanitor at a high school.

  • Has to take the bus to work evey day.

  • And they banned me from the tracks for life.

  • l live my life a quarter mile at a time.

  • Nothing else matters.

  • Not the mortgage, not the store...

  • not my team and all their bullshit.

  • for those ten seconds or less...

  • l'm free.

Wow.

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