The Ferrari vs the Harley

**usa-vtwin** · 30th July 2009, 06:54

A hip young man goes out and buys a 2001 Ferrari 360 Spider. It is the best convertible sports car, costing about $250,000. He takes it out for a spin and while stopping for a red light, an old man on a Harley, wearing an open face crash helmet (looking about 70 years old) pulls up next to him.

The old man looks over the sleek, shiny red surface of the car and asks, "What kind of car ya' got there, sonny?"

The young man replies, "A 2001 Ferrari 360 Spider. They cost about a quarter of a million dollars!"

"That's a lot of money," says the old man, shocked. "Why does it cost so much?"

"Because this car can do over 200 miles an hour!" states the cool dude proudly.

The Harley rider asks, "Can I take a look inside?"

"Sure," replies the owner.

So the old man pokes his head in the window and looks around. Leaning back on his bike, the old man says, "That's a pretty nice car, all right!"

Just then the light changes so the guy decides to show the old man what his car can do. He floors it, and within 30 seconds the speedometer reads 220 mph. Suddenly, he notices a dot in his rear view mirror. It seems to be getting closer!

He slows down to see what it could be and suddenly, whhhoooossshhh! Something whips by him, going much faster! "What on earth could be going faster than my Ferrari?!" the young man asks himself.

Then, ahead of him, he sees a dot coming toward him. Whoooooosh! It goes by again, heading the opposite direction! And it almost looked like the old man on the Harley!

"Couldn't be," thinks the guy. "How could a Harley outrun a Ferrari?!" Again, he sees a dot in his rear view mirror! Whooooosh Ka-BbblaMMM! The Harley plows into the back of his car, demolishing the rear end. The young man jumps out, and it IS the old man!!! Of course, the bike and the old man are hurting for certain.

He runs up to the old man and says, "You gotta tell me how you got that thing to be faster than my Ferrari !"

The old man looks up and replies, "OK..., but first, unhook my suspenders from your side-view mirror, will ya?"

**crazyhorse** · 30th July 2009, 07:00

Just knew it would be too good to be true

**vifferman** · 30th July 2009, 08:41

I first heard that joke a very long time ago, maybe 20 years, although it was a different (older) kind of car.

Has the world run out of jokes?

That reminds me of a story (by Stanislaw Lem, IIRC) about jokes. The character in the story studied jokes, and worked out that their purpose was to determine human nature and intellect. From that, he deduced that they must be part of an experiment, and if so, the experiment was being run by aliens. OF course, the aliens running the experiment found out what he knew, stopped th experiment, and no-one ever laughed ever again.

**ready4whatever** · 30th July 2009, 10:17

ahaha. how fast does a harley go anyway? i know of one thats 120hp. 120 hp bike vs 500 hp car? its about power to weight i guess

**Finn** · 30th July 2009, 10:23

Originally Posted by ready4whatever

ahaha. how fast does a harley go anyway? i know of one thats 120hp. 120 hp bike vs 500 hp car? its about power to weight i guess

A 360 is only 400hp and on a good day could possibly hit a top speed of about 185mph. Not really that impressive.

**onearmedbandit** · 30th July 2009, 10:24

More to do with air flow drag than weight. Bikes have terrible CoD, even sportsbikes.

**peasea** · 30th July 2009, 18:47

Originally Posted by ready4whatever

ahaha. how fast does a harley go anyway? i know of one thats 120hp. 120 hp bike vs 500 hp car? its about power to weight i guess

If my memory serves me correctly I think this 98ci machine put 140+ onto Wgtn M/C's dyno and ran (again, I'm not 100% sure) 10.5 or thereabouts on the quarter, wheelspinning. Not bad for a heavyweight.