Well, it wasn't my first, but was fairly early on..........with my high 12 second car.
Backround: Late 76' early 77' I saw a Mustang II a dozen or so times just regularly cruising the streets. I never did get close to it, but it had some large rear tires, possibly mini tubbed. I asked around many times at the local hangouts, and the only responses I got were, that thing is "bad fast". Rumor I suppose? Nobody really knew anything. A while later I ran across a guy that told me it had a big build 289 and 4.88 gears. His advice was, leave him alone...lol.
A Few months later: There was a fairly fresh 4 lane concrete highway in the area that had a traffic light and a little over a mile stretch of dead straight road without any cross streets. Several groups of us would go there on occasion and park on the shoulder before the light and just jump out and play, using the light as our tree.
One night, a dozen or so of us went there and I was called out by a couple different guys, and made quick work of them. No biggie, we all new what the outcome was gonna be. There was no money involved, just having some fun. Well, after I made the double u turns from the last race and got back in line, I noticed a dark colored Camaro I hadn't seen before. Turned out to be a 396 car and he called me out. I beat him by about 5 cars, but I had to push it a little more then normal. It was a good running car and he gave me a nice thumbs up on the slowdown, cool.
So now a go back after that and what showed up at the back of the line.....You guessed it.....Mustang II. He eyeballed me for about 5 mins. and then came up and said lets go. I tried asking a few questions with no real response, guy had a serious tude! Finally i just said, you're right, lets do it.
So we both jumped out as the light turned red and he tried to do a quick burnout. I thought hummm, what am I in for....lol. So, green light, we left together and by the top of my first I had about a half car on him. By the top of 2nd, it was approaching 3 cars and pretty much stayed there thru out. The funny thing to this long winded story was, I decided I wasn't letting off til he did. I looked down and was at 6600 r's in high gear with my 4.10's, and well past a quarter mile. So I jumped out of it and he went flying by trailing some pretty heavy smoke. I did my U-turn and went back and he just kept going.
When I got back to the other guys, they were LOL. They told me that he was putting out a huge shower of sparks from both mufflers on the top end. I started thinking about it and if I was at 6600, he had to be well over 7k with 4.88's. Pieces of valve, piston tops, who knows.
None of us ever saw that car again though.........