People 'racing' you on the highway?

Everyone else seems determined to speed up the already stressfull pace of our lives..I hope we are the kind to try and slow it down a bit (except at the dragstrip)..In a weak moment as I was merging onto the highway, in my 64 Riviera, bored 425 with Kenne-Bell guts, I noticed I had miscalculated the oncoming speed of a big Mercedes behind me so I gassed it..He gassed it too..I stayed on the floor and started to pull away at 130+..don't mess with the big nailheads on the top end!..like you said, the rest of the time everybody is nuts to get around you, I just nod to them at the next stop light, then get the holeshot.....

 

I too think it doesn't even cross people's mind that we're cooler than them...

I think it's definately that they don't want to get 'stuck' behind you...

I get that all the time...

How many of you drive a stick?

Try driving a truck with a low first in a hilly area like the outskirts of Austin/San Antonio... People don't give you an inch to roll-back as you release the clutch and kill themselves to get around you as you go through the gears... Then give you the finger as they go around, like you were intentionally fucking with them.

The other night in fact, some guy I didn't even know was there gave my 6yo daughter the finger because I had to stop to make a left into my neighborhood... She asked "Hey papa, that guy pointed at me like this..."
He was in such a hurry he had to drive around me on the dirt shoulder while I waited for on-coming traffic to make my turn.

If she wasn't in the car I would have done something evil to that dude, but there you go.

People talk about the idiots on the LA freeways, and they're right. But those people don't hold a candle to the shameless, self-righteous, impatient, jack-holes around here... Good thing the surroundings are so beautifull, or I bet there'd be a lot more carnage.

 

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.[/quote]

it is a near constant occurance around the shop. Every busted ass Honda with a wing in town has to come by and fart at us. Our favorite is the beat to shit avalanch that we are all waiting to huck a rod through the block when he passes by at 8000 r.p.m.'s...every time he drives past!

 

HAHAHAHHA!!! This post is great. There are so many dumb asses out there its unbelievable. I had a buddy that drove a POS '65 chev flatbed. Whenever he saw a woman walking down the street he would rev his engine. He thought that they would look at him. I told him he was an ass just like all the other idiots out there.

I have guys now that get pissed when my '88 'burb leaves the stop light before their car, and have to gas it to act like they just "beat" me. It's truly amazing how a set of 4:10's will get that beast moving.


Larry

 

Joecool you said emergency vehicles have the right away. Thats true but they got to do it with due regard for the safety of other. If not they can be held negligence and charged for there actions. All emergency must stop and proceed with caution at all red lights and stop signs. Thats the law. Jumping the median with traffic around is not showing due regard.

I am a emergency services instructor in Pa. and one of the classes I teach is Emergency Vehicle Driver Training Program. Any emergency vehicle that is not showing due regard should be report to there department. The chief is responsible for there actions.

I was a fire fighter for 20 plus years. An its the cowboys that make it look bad of all of us. It make my blood boil when I here stuff like that.

 

Lux,
Yea,I get alot of drive-bys. Especially after I flamed the Merc. I bought car covers so they aren't as noticable from the side streets.
When I was driving my sons Shoebox as a daily driver,I would stop at a light or stop sign and the car next to me would peel out and floor it! It has open side pipes and is pretty loud,so maybe it's intimidating. I'm not one for street racing,so I just let them get their jollies. I'm passed that age.

 

i drive a wrecker and i hate when i'm hauling a crashed car and someone does that.

 

I just always try to turn it into a game.

Like the dumbass chick who used to run up on my back bumper at 70 MPH in a 60 zone. I was going 70, and she walked up on my like I was standing still. Not only that, but she got close enough to me so that I couldn't see the headlights on her latemodel Jeep Wagoneer. Anyway, I did a brake check because of the 'big dog' that I thought I saw running out into the freeway and I wanted to avoid hitting him. Anyway, after her asscheeks let go of the seat, she went around me and gave me the 1 fingered salute. My kids and I just waved at her and grinned. You'd think she'd learn, but no, she's done it 3 more times with me. I just keep trying to introduce her to my bumper. Perhaps when she hits me she'll learn something.

Or the idiots that race up to get along side of me, or pass me so they can cut me off to make their exit. I love these clowns. I'll usually nail it to keep along side of them, or slow down to stay beside them - just enough to block them from taking their exit.

Am I doing right? No. Do I care? No.

 

If you guys and gals hear me rev my motor and want to race, think twice.
I might just be trying to get your attention because my horn isn't hooked up.

 

Happens to me all the time when driving my sedan. Now, that thing ran low 13s at LACR last year so it ain't no slouch, but invariably some asshole kid in a billet drippin' GT Mustang will pull up next to me and start acting real "bad-ass"........I just kinda power brake it a little so he thinks I'm "staged", then when he pulls the trigger... I just motor away nice 'n easy so he looks just like what he really is......a friggin' idiot.

My new daily driver that I have ordered will probably be worse.....I have a new HHR SS being built next week.

 

I have a kid that lives a couple of houses down who bought a busted mid eighties caprice and he took off the exhaust "to sound better" and he constantly revs it next to my house and peels out of his driveway all of the time, I also have a kid a few blocks away that drives a VW Jetta that's all riced out and he does probably 50-60 mph by my house, I live in a pretty condensed neighborhood and there are a lot of little kids around so i don't appreciate either of these two dumbasses I am almost thinking about making a sign that say "I am not Impressed loser" and wait out in front of my yard for one of these dorks to drive by and hold it up for them to see.

 

Try rolling in something new that is a sports/GT anything. I have a 2007 Mustang GT and I cannot think of a time out on the 610 when someone hasn't pulled some half assed stunt. I drive the speed limit and use my turn signals, etc. I guess I am the weirdo.

About two weeks ago some insecure twit in a new GTO and I were turning left from Richmond onto 610N (West Hwy) and he gave it too much gas in the turn and the rear end kicked out and of course the usual inexperienced overcorrection damn near put him into the curb and ultimately into my lane. I laughed at him, too much car for you, eh bud?

 

I've hand just about everything blow past the 48 In attempts to be able to say they blew that Ol hot rod trucks doors off. Pretty easy when it was packing the 250 inliner.
Best or worst case and most dangerous was in 1984, I was doing a dealer trade swap for the dealer I worked for and was driving a new 84 Corvette coupe with about 20 miles out of Portland, or when a clapped out 67 Mustang with double shackles bolted together with the wide bald tires sticking several inches out of the wheels blasted past me doing all it could do and then swerved off and up the next off ramp on his way to tell his buddies how he had just blown the doors off that new black vette.

The ones I hate are the ones who blast past me on the divided highway I drive daily and swerve back into the right lane 3 feet off the left corner of my front bumper.

 

It seems to be much worse when there is a full moon.

 

This is why you keep a horse head on a stick in the passenger seat .So when they pull up next to you and rev it and look over and see you waving a horse head on a stick, their like 'OH FUCKIN SHIT MY CHRIST ! A FUCKIN HORSE HEAD ON A STICK .NOOOOOOOO " and go away.. works for me

 

Friend of mine has an old IH Row Binder with a BIG V8 that will really move it. Truck is elderly but low mileage and the body is kinda ratty looking. People will bust a gut to get around him because anything that old must be going slow.

 

My son had a lightened 930 Porche. It would accelerate. Twin turbo intercooled. Whale tail,short hood,tires,flairs. I drove it San Antonio to Kerrville and everybody wanted to race. They had no idea. Thought I would be wrecked. Never had the problem in the hemi roadster.

 

I had the headers unplugged on my 21 stud flathead powered 32 the other day when this kid in a boom box fart pipe import pulls up beside me at a red light... He starts revving it up and giving me the evil eye... Then he starts purging nitros... trying to scare me I gently bliped the gas a couple of times... The light turned green... He left hard.... then there was a BIG BANG He rolled to a stop in the middle of the intersection in a big cloud of smoke as I drove slowly through the intersection the cops were getting ready to pull him out of his car.... I saw the cops sitting there I nearly pissed myself laughing!!!!!!!!

 

Sitting at a red light in the t-bucket. Dork in a MINI-VAN had to do a one-wheel, front-tire burnout (a very weak one at that) to try to get a holeshot when the light went green. Another WTF moment provided by the clueless masses.

 

I donno-sometimes whenI'm in my DD[some kinda foreign thing],I will speed up if I see a nice older car ahead.Check it out from the back,side,and in the mirror.Works with the nice ridin' women,too. ---bil

 

I just put on my "Hockey Helmet",and act like i've escaped from the "Bunny Bus",that keeps everyone out of my way!!!

 

It happens a lot to me too, I just shine 'em on. But it's not just people in DD's that do it. A couple years ago on my way to the Northern Nats in Kalamazoo I was just crusin' along in the right lane of the X way and I see a genuine roadster Rat Rod slowly gaining on me. once he got close he just hadda pull into the left lane and blow by the shiney street rod. He jumped on it hard, with open pipes and started by me...till the right front bias ply started hopping about 6' off the road, he had to back off till things settled down and then he made another run at me this time nothing started hopping or shaking so he gave me a nice scowl on the way by and motored out of sight.

 

ooohhh...here's another great one. pull up to a stoplight, and the homeless guy does the universal both-hands-in a rotating-motion sign while mouthing ( hell they could be screaming...I can't hear 'em)
"Do a burnout!"

I have taken to yelling back

"Buy me some tires!"

 

My pet peeve is tailgaters
I used to drive a tractor-trailer truck and on the freeways trucks get a lot of tailgaters - so close that I can't see them in my mirrors, I can only see their shadow if the sun is just right. The solution I use is - if the trailer is empty and therefore very light - I mash the gas and at the same time pull down on the trailer brake leaver for 2 seconds. Now imagine you're tailgating 3 feet behind a semi at speed ( not that anyone HERE would do that!) suddenly 6 brake lights are shining at eye level and 8 trailer tires are locked up and smoking! PANIC!! But since I also hit the gas the truck dosn't loose any speed - but my tailgater sure does!

 

This crap reminds me of an article in Road & Track many years ago. the writer was doing a road test in a Lambo Contach. He was on the highway between Vegas and L.A. Well, he was doing a little more than the limit and a guy in a late model Malibu flys up next to him and wants to run him. The writer said he was going to get into it, but didn't. His explanation was very simple. Why prove the obvious? Why risk all the bullshit doing something to prove what BOTH of you already know? The asshat ricers know they can't beat a hot rod. Not even on your bad day. Chances are they are freakin' idiots without a clue. I mean shit, they bolted a wing to a Honda Civic. Kinda proves they're fucked up.

The thing is, if you ask 'em if they want to go to a track to settle it, they won't. Personally, ricers and other idiots trying to prove something on the street, isn't even worth the time.

 

try rolling in an 11 second '69 Vette. everyone wants a piece.
Every little ricer has to chip their tires at every intersection.

Every once in a while I'll give into temptation and show someone how fast they aint.

 

people rev thier engines at me at lights alot, so i usually rev back and jump up to the line.then when the light changes i go real slow. when their stuck at the next light , and it turns green im already goin bout twenty and BBWWWWAAARRPPPP!!!!!! fly pastem they usually catch me within two or three seconds though. 4:11s on a worn 235 = 45-50 tops!

 

Oh god Don't even get me going. How ever I did lay into it a little once when coaxed... By a state trooper. I didnt pass him, I didnt beat him, he shit-canned it from a light, after rubbernecking alot and talking to his partner. so I hung right with him. he let off at @75 in a 55. gave me a thumbs up and drove on his way. figured I was safe if I didnt pass him

 

uhm.. yeah.. this one got me going. I'm driving a 3 ton car... 45 years old (the car not me people), with a trailer, and mustangs and camaros and a few ricers STILL think I wanna race. So... I pass most of em, and if I can't, I know I could rip em to pieces if they cut me off. Makes me feel good anyway. Gotta love powerful old detroit steel.

and on another subject... what's up with corvette drivers lately?

used to be mustang drivers and camaro drivers were typically jerk's with bad attitudes... but Vette drivers, it seemed, had more class, and didn't feel the need to prove themselves.

but in the last month here, as I'm driving my nice lil minivan... I've had three or four Vettes, act like the've got something to prove, vs lil ole me.. in a friggin minivan.

I put the fear into one of em though. Gotta nice LONG turn, goin from the bypass to the main highway. I take it 5 days a week, so I know the curve exactly, bump by bump, groove by groove, I could do it in my sleep ok. Anyway, bypass is 65mph, main highway is 70, and you can guess how fast most people take it. Needless to say, Mr. Corvette owner, decides he's just GOTTA pass me, and cut me off right before the exit. So.. at 80mph... I figure I'll let him in front. The long ramp.... says to slow to 45. Typically, I slow to about 60... but after being cut off, I figure, I'll keep goin at about 80.

Mr. Vette... of course, is still trying to pull away from me anyway, but I'm right there behind him... smiling.

And then.. oh man.. it was so sweet... He lifts off the gas, and must have hit some dirt or gravel, because he ends up in on the skirt, almost to the grass. I of course, pull left, and go right past him, with the same smile, and keep cruising at my 80mph, cruise control it, and keep on goin on down the highway. Few minutes later, Mr. Vette passes me, must be doin about 110 or 120. And.. a few minutes later.. justice is served... The local economy gets a few hundred smackers from a speeding vette.

Ok.. story over, point is.. don't race on public roads, it's not worth it, and if you honestly feel you've got something to prove, you prolly do, and you should find a better way.