People 'racing' you on the highway?

Is it just me or does it seem like people start hauling ass when they see you on the road?
This seems to occur on my ride out to San Marcos from Austin for school. Back before I had a V8, I could understand people passing me when I was struggling to get to 70, but lately, I noticed people killing themselves to get around me.
So just for shits and giggles, on the open stretch between Neiderwald and San Marcos, I f#ckin peg it...and people are stilling trying to pass me! My speedo is off by about 5-10 mph, but I know I was doing almost (if not) a 100-120mph.
I usually just hang back now and pace someone that is doing a 'normal' speed, but it sucks when I'm trying to get around someone and they act like it's Talledega.

 

happens alot to me too..but up here in michigan almost everyone drives at 80+..but i do get the occational crazy bastard that just has to get up along side of me..just to than fall off in speed..and fuck me all up trying to get over or off the e-way..fuckin rubberneckers..

 

I pull alongside

and they notice Im running

BALMUDO style wheels with spikes on em

they back off

I would say get you some spike hub wheels

 

Heh, just smile and be cool. Wink, if she's cute!

 

It's a subconscious penis envy scenario. Regardless of sex, but almost exclusively perpetrated by males, they notice that you are propogating the lifestyle they only wish they had the dedication to uphold. Seeing you in your hotrod only trips the switch and they are compelled to prove that their modern mechanical economical shitbox can not only keep up with your machine but pass you, thereby proving that they are driving the superior automobile and therefore swinging a bigger dick. Or at least that's how my grandmother explained it.

 

This is common everywhere,People can make payments on a new car but can't figure out how to run the cruise-control. I set my truck on 75 and pull up along side someone and they accelerate to match my speed. If I slow down and get behind them they will slow down to 65 or 60 and I pull out and we do the same thing again. The only people who let me around are the ones text messageing or putting on eyeshawdow.
But there is worse. Last week I was hauling a car on my trailer on a devided Hy-way with about an 80 foot wide median. A emergency vehicle approched on the opposite side and a lady in front of me slammed on her brakes, I guess figureing they were going to slow down and come thru that median and she needed to give them room. Now I know emergency vehicles have the right away but when they have to jump a median to share your roadway it is not required.

 

I had that happen when I had my white 69 dodge polara it looked like an old cop car. People would start revving the engine floor it at lights. most of the time I would beat them. It would really piss them off sometimes. One time a girl in a camaro with a 6 chased me for a few miles after I flew pased her.

 

Must be an Iowa-Illinois thing, happens to me 15 times a day going to and from work and that's in my bent up '96 Regal. I'd think people would want to stay as far away from it as possible.

 

I agree with Gigantor, it's called SMALL PENIS COMPLEX!!!! They only wish they were half as cool, or had half the balls, or half the REAL Hand Build Rides we have.. Although sometimes they just want a better look. I find myself at times pulling up or slowing down on someone who has a bitchen ride or bike, and giving a big thumbs up , but then getting on outta the way. I can't stand people who block the hammer lane on a free-way they should be shot on site. hahahaha anyhow Just smile and keep on trucking they will either get tired of hauling ass or going slow!!!

 

That's some funny shit right there... and probably true.

 

And these are probably the same people who bitch about the price of gas.

 

This happens to me even when I am driving my truck and trailer and have some shitbox on the trailer, people just have to drive up alongside my trailer and inspect my find, I even had a guy once that spent to much time starring at my find at not enough time starring at the road and he rammed into my trailer at 70mph, luckily his car was heavily damaged and my trailer only suffered a ding.

 

I drive fast everywhere...but I have a 3000 r.p.m. converter, so it's kind of neccecary. any less than 3k ('bount 70 ish) and it gets back into the stall...which means it slows down.

so 3800 it is. 80-85. fun!

 

Some people just have to be first. They're great at clearing deer from the roadway!

 

I drive a 60 Caddy so automatically everyone thinks that I am going to go slow so I get cut off all the time just so they can get in front of me. I think that first they are pissed becasue I will usually pass them and then they are surprised not to see a blue top driving the car (i'm only 35).

 

you could print this out on a large piece of paper and hold it up in your window

 

Shit, Its even worse here. All the wannabe mouth breathers with backwards hats floor it when they go by my shop.
They must think its a way of communicating to me that "I'm a badass rodder" I've seen some incredible pieces of shit trying to smoke their bald tires. I guess its a form of testosterone poisoning. Sometimes we just laugh our asses off.

 

Hell it happens to me in my DD. I drive a STOCK 2000 Honda Civic Hatch because it high mpg rating and my 40 mile commute one way to work. I get "revved on" by other imports all the time. I just look at them like they're idiots.

 

I get that here too,I live on the corner of a T, the local punks rev their rice box and screech their tires trying to make the corner. One kid almost went into the neighbors yard, I do get a few others that give the rev too, but at least it's V-8 muscle. It's like they are calling you out....lol

 

I let 'em pass now. A year or so ago, a guy in a Z06 punched it when he came-up on my '64 Chevy II. It's a full chassis race car with a 540 and a lot of nitrous (I know, not traditional, but it flys). Anyways, the motor alone killed the guy and I stayed on it until around 130 (just a guess based on where the tach was). Then I hit a slight dip in the road and it got pretty loose. I'm sticking with the dragstrip from now on.

 

DAYUM! They haven't even made it up to mouth breather yet?


Happens all the time here with the Anglia. Some moron has just got to pass the little red car. Or try and block the passing lane when you finally get to one, and go slow, like they have been, for the last 15 or 20 miles of double yellow.

 

i live on a nice straight stretch of scenic road and my shop and farm field sits right against the road. if im working on something or the doors open to the shop most people just have to get a head start and do a fly by in there ricer. i just laugh knowing i have more power in one dirtbike then they have in there p.o.s. there is a guy that gets on it in a big block camaro and thats always nice to hear. as for on the road my daily is a f250 diesel and if somoene wants to slow down in front of me i just fly up on there bumper and then stab the brakes. it scares the shit out of them and usually they get out of the way. i just hope my brakes never fail!!!

 

Hey Kevin, I-35 between here & San Antone has been like that for a loooong time. As bad as 35 is, that seems to be one of the worst parts.

 

Hell...every year, the stretch between San Antone and Waco kills more people than Cancer....

 

People drive like shit in the ATX/San Antonio area... I see people pull stuff repeatedly everyday that would get them shot in LA...

There does seem to be a marked compettitiveness on the roadway around here.

 

If you are driving anything thru the 60s then you have a target painted on the back! Best to just let 'em go because in a race who would get a ticket first... a 33 Willys or a 88 Honda? Save it for the strip. I have been asked to race. Ask them if they ever run at the strip...no is the usual reply. Ask them if they don't because their dick isn't big enough?

 

Depends on which car I'm driving. My DD is a Toyota. People pass and I don't care. I usually stay in the slow lane anyway. If I'm in my rod, people either try to catch me to look at the car, or slow down for the same reason. The only thing I worry about is some idiot, looking at my car, sideswipes me.

 

Exactly it.

Then, they also hope you gas it so they can see if they can keep up or pass you, if you make that mistake that really makes them feel good when you don't leave them like they were chained to a post. "Hey I beat this really fast hot rod today".

What I really hate is when they box you in by riding right along side but 1/2 a length back, right in your blind spot, so they can gawk without you seeing them. They run you right up into the car in front of you, then they realize they're stupid & jacking you up so they floor it to show you how badass their Mazda is.




I've got another question, does anybody else have every jerk in town driving by their house revving it up just because they know you're into hot rods ? There's always cars & projects visible around the shop, so everyone with their full race old cop car or fartcan honda has to rev it up or try to fly by making as much noise as possible.

 

I've seen the theory that everyone else is jealous when they see H.A.M.B. cars on the road on here before, and I'm not buying it. I think most people couldn't care less and probably don't even notice. It does seem like some people try to get around the Comet because they think they're gonna get stuck behind the "old POS". I think it's just the modern mentality of "hurry up", instant gratification, me-me-me, etc.

Thanks,
Kurt

 

Right on, brother. Don't get many challenges in my 59 Fury or 47 Ford truck but for some reason my DD 70 Dart Swinger attracts Hondas with fart Pipes. Go figure? Maybe I should stay off the road when the little text messengers are going to/ coming from school.