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Originally Posted by kobe8
I have had 2 300c's pull up to lights next to me and try to gun it. In a previous post I stated the sleeper look of the SRT8, I have to come to find out that alot of people that have 300's and 300c's dont even know about the SRT8. Maybe here in Seattle as they have not been readily available for quite some time, but it seems like the masses of 300 owners dont know what the SRT8 is or it's capabilities. I an not knocking them at all, they think it is a Touring model and that they would eat it for lunch with the 5.7 hemi. Both times after I pulled ahead and stopped the looked and asked what is that. The SRT8 does not have any Hemi badging anywhere on the body and people look for that, so even in the 300 community it is a sleeper.
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It is funny you mention sleepers. I went for the sleeper/show look and since I haven't put my new trunk and roof spoilers on yet. My OEM SRT trunk spoiler is also off, only the front and rear lower SRT valance's separate me from looking like any other 300C. Just ask scarbs and vvv90. They even thought it my be a V6 sitting in the lot of the DT hotel, albeit very dirty from long drive from TX. Last night I was driving home, esp dis-engaged, auto-stick in 3, rolling at about 40 getting lot's of stares from passing cars, WTF kind of car is it looks, priceless. I love my dark tint,lol.
I see in my driver mirror a fellow 300 rolling up beside me, so I drop to 2 and give him a friendly hello kooks/Zoomers rumble style. I see the 300 pause, obv. checking out Freebird, SOB guns it on me and fly's by. WTF, I see he has chrome SRT wheels, no SRT trunk badge. At first I thought the 300 was black, but when he rolled under a street light, I saw that he was in a Black Cherry (scarbs/Hemmissey) 300. Well I am in the know and that 300C needed to be warned, about there big brother now rolling the streets, SRT. I really didn't want to do it to a fellow LX owner, but hey he presented the challenge when he shot by FreebirdSRT, when all she wanted to do was say wuz up.
One light later and we are side-by-side, red light. I am in AS 1, left foot on the brake, right foot slowly loading on the rpm. I stage the car at 2,200 rpm. Light turns green, Freebird is flying. The 3C stayed with me for a moment, but only a moment. By the time I clicked up to 3 and just hammered the gas, I saw the front end of the 3C go down, he took his foot off the gas. So I shut down FB, and coasted until he gets beside me. I roll down my window, tell him to take his next left. We pull over to M & G. I get out and he walks up to me and says "I didn't know at first what type of 300 you were, but your loud exhaust told me you had something under the hood, man what are you running"
We should have a new 300 member joining pretty soon,lol. He lives in N.O., Louisianna, but has been in Houston alot, since Katrina. Well after wanting to know everything about Freebird, he also told me his 2 best friends ea. just got a Charger SRT and Magnum SRT. Seems they had ridden in his 3C and fell in love with it. Then when they read that the SRT was coming out, they waited. They just took delivery of them this month. So my new 3C buddy now has all the proper info. (LX forums and Charger forums) to give to his friends. plus of course he will be joining our family here on 3CF. We might just start getting a few locals together for some cruising of H-town after all.
