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Breakfast on the house

During the week I normally eat breakfast at home before I head into the office, but today I decided to splurge and get something on the way in.

I drive right past a CFA, so it’s on the way, and they make a pretty good egg, sausage, cheese bowl-thing – so that’s where I stopped.

It was a quarter to seven in the morning, so the place wasn’t busy and at the drive through window the manager meets me to talk cars for a few minutes.

He looks over the Hellcat, nods, and asks the usual questions:

  • Hellcat?
  • Yep.
  • Supercharged?
  • Yep.
  • How much horsepower?
  • About 800.
  • How fast is it?
  • I’ve done a quarter mile in 11.7 at 127mph, and 0-60 is about three and a half seconds…

After the usual questions he shows me a photo of his 2020 Shelby GT500 mustang. It looks pretty nice and he says it runs about the same in the quarter on a modded upper pulley and an E85 tune.

Anyway, this goes on until the next car pulls up behind me and he hands me my food and drink – and tells me it’s on the house and to have a nice day.

So, there ya go – if you’re looking for an excuse to buy a $70,000 race car, you can occasionally get free breakfast with it.


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