Does your Jalopy get respect or are you tailgated and cut off?

If you think about it, it doesn't matter where you live, what type of road you're on, what the speed limit is, what time of day ,or what you're driving, some idiot is going to go around, under, over or through you to get past !!!! Some people just don't know the meaning of respect.Just my opinion...Mike

 

Always getting tailgated by assholes when out in the '51....always...

 

i never had much problem, i have flamethrowers, i like hunting down tailgaters just to get in front of them. tailgaters are a blast!

 

Exactly what I was thinking. Well put PunkAssGearhead88. And my tagline says it all as to what I think of "drivers" out there.-Weeks

 

hahaha just woke up the dog, I'm about the same way on my 56 pan mechanical drums and suburbanite soccer moms with explorers and suburbans with 20inch rims and dark window tint makes for an interesting commute

 

I like this one! I think my new A interior accessory is going to be a bag of marshmellows. A fellow A buddy is building his 31 to as original as possible specs. After discussing this respect issue he says he is going to install a dumbie exhaust pipe, run it up in the cab, put a funnel on it in the cab and feed it ball bearings for the tailgators

 

Welp..I grew up in Chi..riding my old XLCH to and from..near north side. Grand/Harlem area. You learn..or die..

 

Hahaha, i love my old leaky flathead in my 42' 2-1/2 ton flatbed! 236 mopar with straight pipes and 70k origional motor. Valve seals leak, so when i rev it up to drop it down a gear, it blows white oil smoke out the pipe, and people leave me alone. Also, i had a buddy call me who was following me, and say that he couldnt breath behinde me. I said welcome to the world of no cats, and hung up.

35mph, and its so freekin intimidating that nobody messes with it.

 

I agree Rich.hahaha. Just remember you did, or I should say "The Joker" caused that old man to hit that car in front of him at the light. He was to busy listening to his wife pointing out your car..and then BAM. Good thing no one was hurt. Thats all that counted.

 

My second car was a 50 Pontiac straight eight. I ran a vacuum line into the passenger compartment, plugged with a pencil. I kept a small can of oil handy. When needed, or usually just because we were out raising hell, I would uncap the line and stick it into the can of oil. You'd see some real smoke screens then.

Experimented with all types of oils, even brake fluid. Each gave a different type of smoke. That crude low-compression motor never missed a tick.

 

I used to have a window washer nozzle mounted on the rear bumper of my old 76 Suburban for rude people. I had it rigged to a seperate jug. If someone made me mad, they got a shot of cool aide. Real sticky stuff.

 

"Nothing says Obey Me like a bloody head on a fence post." <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com" /><o></o>

 

Before I fixed my brakelights on the '64, when someone tailgated me, I would hit the brakes, seen some wide white eyes in my mirror. Now, I don't watch my mirror. If they hit me, I'll deal with it. Objects in the mirror don't matter.

 

In '64 my '47 Plymouth Bus. Cpe. had a SMOG CONTROL DEVICE ,a steel brakeline from the glovebox to the top of the aircleaner, connected to a pump oilcan. Those assholes would turn on their wipers and lights and backoff!!

 

I carry a pocket full of rocks or nuts and bolts, people learn fast not to follow to close when I'm on my bike.

 

I think all these rude ass drivers need to spend some time behind the wheel of an old vehicle. When they figure out what kind of attention and planning it takes to drive one of these beasts maybe they would show a little courtesy. Manual steering and a three on the tree leave little time for anything else.

 

People generally drive respectful when I drive any hot rod I've had. Sometimes its a pain when they hang out driving on the quarter panel - but such is life.

Driving in my wife's new Corvette is another story. Everyone drives aggressive around that car. What a pain.

 

wanna bet?

the bigger the vehicle, the less they seem to "think" about the consequences of their actions.

i drive a truck for a living, all 75,000-80,000 pounds of it. i have logged over 2 million miles and have seen all KINDS of horseshit moves made out there.. i have also heard some of the most insane, dangerous and downright retardedly uninformed statements as well. "the bigger the vehicle, the faster they can stop" i shit you not, i have heard a person driving a car SAY THAT, and mean it.


PS... so long as we're on the subject here, since when do they teach that a highway onramp has a speed limit LESS than that of the highway you are merging onto? i dont know how many idiots i see that putt putt up the ramp, then as SOON as all 4 tires are off the ramp and onto the highway, they floor it

 

I drive a bright yellow 2005 GTO and I get tailgated and cut off all the time too. Well unless I'm driving hyper aggressive in a sort of "flip off the world" mode. It's not just older cars that get it.

 

I usually don't have any tailgaiters. If you are just rolling along at the speed limit (even on back roads), people see an old car and think that is gonna hold them up. Some kid in a newer Mustang thought that I was in his way the other day. He was gonna fall out and teach me a lesson... Didn't work out to good for him. The old shop truck just LOOKS old. When he finally caught back up, a few miles down the interstate... It was all thumbs up, smiles and total surprise.

Kevin

 

Hell mine is almost 20 feet long, so it usually scares the shit out of most people and they get out of my way. For the most part people are respectful and let me out/merge without too many problems. For tailgaters, I usually lift the back of the car up a little (got hydros on the rear for "speedbump clearance") and when they start getting too close I drop the back! That is always worth a ton of laughs, the people usually think something is broken and they tend to stay 3-4 car lengths back aftere that.

 

Depends on what I'm driving. The truck they stay away. It's loud and ugly (little menacing). The 42, nice paint, clean. Can't resist driving up my ass. It'll move quick but I don't always like to drive like an a-hole.

It's just a big race to sit at the next stoplight anyway.... where I pull up to them and give them the finger :]

 

bad idea.... we hada buddy get convicted of roadrage for that cause when the cops stopped him he had a bunch of nuts in his vest pocket,now EVERYBODY has extra pennies laying around if ya get my drift!