People 'racing' you on the highway?

It drives me nuts when I am out on the freeway w/ CC on, and I move into the left lane to pass someone... and they speed up! Then I move back to the right lane, and they slow down!

Fuck! And it's not like they are deliberatley trying to block me off, I may be going 73 to their 70, but because they can'd hold a constant speed, they seem to hold a relative speed to the cars in their field of view...

So as soon as I come up next to them, they start creeping up in speed. If I dump the CC and jump up 10 mph or so, I go right by them, but that shit just pisses me off.

I don't understand why it's so hard for people to drive consistantly. Like people who pass me, and then 5 minutes later I pass them... me with the CC solid @ 75 the whole time... this shit can go on for MILES

 

Cruise?!! You mean someone aside from me uses that funny little button on the new cars?

I hear ya!

 

I pretty much behave on the public roads and do the "SPEED" thing at the track.

However this past summer while driving the the Public roads... I've experienced some unique drive-bys... I had a group off girls flash me... couple of women had propositioned me... I've had tuner total out his car showing off to his friends while driving past my parked car... and I've been video'd by many people on their cell phones while weaving through traffic...!

So far I've been able to avoid their recklessness!

 

I have to hurry up and pass the traffic so I can pass more traffic.... and I hate getting stuck behind a fatass SUV without a clear view of what's down the road.

I will say that I do like seeing an old car blow by me at a high rate of speed. Old cars always look cool hauling ass....

 

Tell me (lie to me) that you immediately pulled over and took advantage of this rare opportunity.

 

You wouldn't believe me if I told you...!!!!! Hahaha...!

 

Naw,no one wants to race me....be rolling along in my 37 Chevy PU half ass hot rod and they smile,give the thumbs up,that kinda shit.Pretty women smile at me ,but I know they are looking at my truck and not at my ugly mug.

 

A couple of years ago I was on my way to the GG show at around 6:00 in the morning. I had some damn yuppie in H2 tailgating my 50 buick. I finally got tired of it and applied some of the go peddle. I guess the guy was not expecting a 428 pontiac under my hood. When I look in the rear view mirror he is quite a ways back and my speedo is reading 108. Damn that car was smooth riding.

 

Well, reading these posts it appears there are dorks everywhere.

I really miss my old '92 VW diesel when someone pisses me off. I put in a European gearbox, so it used to have a good top end and cruised all day 80+mph, but even so guys would still tailgate even if there was a car in front of me and I had no place to go. No problem. I would just floor the car until I couldn't see them due to the diesel smoke. They'd back off pretty quickly.

One day I'm minding my own business when this asshole in a Corvette convertible cuts me off trying to impress his blonde eyecandy sitting next to him. At the next light, I managed to get in front of him. After we take off from the light, I put it a gear too high so it would bog, then floored it. She smoked like crazy, so bad that I couldn't see anything behind me. The guy finally gets around me, he's hacking and coughing, giving me the finger. I just laughed, gave him a nice wave and put her in the right gear. Asshats.

 

That's happens to me all the time... I'll have to start wearing a ski mask... perhaps that will stop the problem

 

On the flip side... I like it when somebody in a worn out, crappy old car acts like it's fast and gets on it and it pours smoke and I turn on my windshield wipers and act like I can't see... or if I'm racing somebody from the light and they get the jump on me really good, I'll put my blinker on and act like I was turning anyways.

 

I drive a 90' Mustang LX 5.0; originally bought new for my wife . Now it's mine, even though I'm a CHEVROLET GUY! It's completely stock, and in good condition. I drive about 25 miles to work and occasionally I get "challenged" by some ricer/tuner type. Now ,I just take the radar detector and hold it like I'm talking to someone; then I pull out an old wallet that has a kids toy cop badge in it, and "flash" it to the the annoyance. So far it's worked every time; they back right off. The Washington State Patrol uses completely unmarked "sleeper cars" in some areas of the state. They even have regular plates and no spotlights. Last one I saw in action was a brand new Chevrolet Impala; black with blacked out windows. Had stealth persuit lights everywhere; even the side marker lights flashed strobe-like. He had a DUI suspect pulled over in a gas station parking lot, and in the backseat of the patrol car. I could barely see who he had arrested, even from the back glass; that's how dark the windows were. It's just not safe, or wise, to take chances by letting some tweaker in a ricer/tuner egg you into proving something. Just not worth it.

 

If people screw with me in the caddy they get an eye full of my spot.

 

I usually pull up along side,stick a cigarette in my ass,hang it out the window and ask for a light

 

Street racing is unsafe and gives a black eye to hot rodders. It's all fun and games untill somebody gets hurt. That being said.......... Game on

 

My DD Suburban has a 2.73 gear and a 700R4. So I don't jump on it too hard getting on the highway or whatever.. not that I crawl, I just accelerate reasonably. When it tops out at around 15 MPG I do what I can to save gas.

But it's amazing the number of pricks who jump around me and cut me off to get up to speed, then as I get up to around 75 in the sweet spot where it gets about the best MPG with those gears, I go right on by them. Every time.


You can't win on the highway here though. Do the speed limit you get passed left and right and about every 5 minutes have to pass some idiot who can't even manage 65. Do 75, you get passed less, but have to pass other people more. Or they pass you and slow down. The worst is coming into construction sites, these assholes zoom up in the open lane then jam in at the end. I wish they'd put tire spikes in or something to stop that shit. Or make it legal to just shoot at them.

So I get so I avoid the highway coming home from where the cars are stashed.. but you can't win there sometimes either. Every now and then I have to pass someone on the two lane who doesn't understand it's a 55 zone. And the one road by the casino two weeks in a row some asshat pulls out in front of me and crawls up to the light at the end of the road. The second one pulls out and does 20 in a 40, so I passed the clown.. what does he do, pull into the gas station maybe 100 yards from where he just turned out of... you couldn't fucking wait another 30 seconds for me to go by, you stupid piece of shit? I wanted to say something, but I let it go, it was some old fart who probably barely knew what day it was. As it was, they used the full service lane when they pulled in.

 

two words! "gun rack"! works wonders ..

 

here,it's not so much the ricers ( beware of mitsubishi EVo's and Godzillas,no amount of bullshit will beat those) but it's young girls in Hyundais and fools in 4x4's who think they just have to race you.
I have a couple of cars for daily driving,a merc 450SEL 6.9 ( 0-60 in 7 seconds ,1976!!) and a rough and rusty toyota hilux van.With 4AGE turbo. 'suck on that, dick head' is a thought that comes to mind most days.


and Cyclists on public roads...i hate the cnuts!!!

 

The worst times to drive is around the highschools when all the kids are coming and leaving school...leaving school is horrible ill be walking down the side of the parking lot and i see the same kid in a 6cyl. nonposi camaro do a one wheel peel around every corner...he thinks hes got something i guess...most of the kids at my school drive trucks though and one day im walking out into the parking lot and all the 4x4's and lifted trucks are having a demolision derby....literally...it was fun to watch but who would do that to there truck...i would kill someone if they hit my truck or my 65

 

Had some girls do this my buddy in the passenger seat lifted his shirt in a signal for a swap. I didn't see no titties so they didn't see no tire smoke.
I usually get the late model Mustangs jumping on my Comet, I've been tempted a few times.


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!"[/QUOTE]