Well I just have to say all of you called it. 17 year old in a LS1 camaro = ticket. Yea last Friday I pulled up to a red light with 2 girls and a friend in the car, when a little Subaru with a huge spoiler came up next to me revving his engine like mad. I at first successfully ignored him but one of the girls in my car asked if his car was faster than mine cause it looked like it. That, of course, then got my ego involved and I stopped thinking rationaly. I then revd my engine a little and then brought my rpm to about 2100 rpm.
I lunched pretty good but I didnt full throttle it because I had a little sense in me and when I got about 5 over the speed limit I slowed down because I realized how dumb I was being. Unfortently, all of a suddon I hear sirens and I look in my side view mirror to see a cop. I pull over and he gets on his intercom telling me to put my hands on my head, then to take the keys out of the ignition and throw them out the window. I did. He then ripped me out of the car, threw me against it, and handcuffed me. He then told a back up officer that I was tryin to race. Anyways a lot of stuff happened. He searched my car for drugs and threatened to throw my friends and I in jail because he said we seemed like we were on drugs. He then talked with his back up for about 10 minutes and then asked me what happened. I said I wasn't on drugs and didn't want to race the guy next to me but I did give it some gas of the line to show off. He said ok gave me a giant ticket, 57 in a 35, which is bull because I made a point of letting off at about 40.
So now I'm waiting for my ticket in the mail and I can't drive my car for atleast 2 months and I have to pay for the ticket, which I think is fair. I have to say I have learned my lesson and I can see now why my dad, who had a 69 chevelle with a 395, didn't want me to have this car. Please don't flame me too bad, but I thought I would share my experience to further prove why, generally speaking, kids shouldn't have high powered cars.
EDIT: I should note that not all kids shouldn't have high powered cars, but the problem is the car is either too pwerful or fast for a kid to control it, or if a kid driver, has a lapse in judgement, which almost every single kid does eventually, the car is powerful enough to break the law faster than they realize it, which is what happened in my case.