I have to share this Superbee story as this thread is about Superbees. I was about 15 at the time, and there was this guy who lived up the street named Mike Purkeson or Purgeson (this was in Eugene, OR). He had a Superbee, not sure of the year. He used to terrorize the neighborhood with that car with burnouts, etc. One day, I was walking up the street, and I hear something loud coming up behind me, and it is Mike and his Superbee. He pulled up and asked if I wanted a ride (which had never happened before), so I said "sure"! I got in and he started moving forward.....no seatbelt, we did not do that back then. He went through a couple of gears and it was pretty cool! He got outside our neighborhood by about a block and pulled up by this church and asked if I would like to do a burnout and I said "yes"! He staged her up and then cut loose! I have no problem telling you all that it scared the **** out of me!!! This was the first time I had been exposed to real power. For a while after he was done, I did not have my wits due to sensory overload, like what the **** just happened to me!!! There was noise and smoke, and shaking, and I was pinned back in the seat. When he finally finished the burnout, he said something about going back to his house to put the car in the garage before the police came. That was one of the most violent and exciting experiences in my life, and I remember it clearly 45 years later.
