Paul_in_DC

There were a couple boneheads driving SUVs up Interstate 95 not far from here. In morning rush hour, they decide to challenge each other and get obnoxious. IIRC, the one guy rolled his macho machine and killed two of his own children in the back in the process! Stupid bast*rd...

Gord96BRG

I had a similar satisfactory drive in December. It was evening, and it had just started to snow. The roads were just barely snow-covered, but slick. I was driving my Audi allroad, quattro AWD and equipped with winter tires - a pretty good winter machine! Heading west on Glenmore Trail, turned on to Crowchild Trail North. I moved into the left lane doing about 80 km/h (the speed limit) to pass a couple of cars in the middle lane, and see this car fly up behind me and sit just off my bumper. When I was past the middle lane cars, I moved over to the middle lane, and this early 90s Civic with a body kit and alloy wheels buzzes past me. I felt that 80 was the fastest I was comfortable doing in the slick conditions, and I was thinking that he had all-season tires at best, and that he was going more than a bit fast for the conditions... he must have thought the same, because after he pulled ahead about 8 car lengths or so he slowed down to maintain his distance ahead. After all, he couldn't look bad by slowing down more than the car he just flew past, could he?

We got to the point where Crowchild curves right towards the 17th Ave exits, him still in the left lane, me 8 lengths back in the middle lane, him still not wanting to look bad by slowing down. He goes out of sight around the curve for just an instant, and then I see headlights spinning. Next, I see the Civic spinning against the middle concrete barrier, smacking the front, then the side, then the back bumper against the barrier, and coming to a rest sideways across the outside lane with the back bumper against the barrier. I slowed down to a crawl, saw the driver was OK, then saluted smartly as I went by. :D He restarted his engine, and the car dragged the dangling bumpers and bits over to the curb lane. Yep, he sure showed me how cool his car was and what a great driver he was!

Karma, a great thing. :D

Regards,
Gordon

StewC625

This goes WAY back to 1985. I had an RX-7 - brand new - my gift to myself for college graduation and landing a good job.

I'm at a stoplight and some goober (precursor to a mullet-head back then) pulls alongside in a early 70's Chevelle and puts the rev on. This thing sounds like it has SERIOUS horsepower under the hood, and it probably did. It's got an auto trans and I can hear him brake torquing it (holding the gas down while holding the car in place with the brakes) and the engine giving a seroius wail of "let me go, let me go!"

Well no way in hell was I going to race this guy - first, I don't street race - didn't then, don't now, but secondly, this guy for sure was going to hand my *** to me. I'm trying to wave him off when there's suddenly two horrific sounds from his car - the first noise is the rear U-Joint breaking on his driveshaft - the one at the end of the driveshaft just before the rear end, and the other noise is this momentary crescendo of engine noise, followed by a HUGE metallic bang as simultaneously the driveshaft bounces off the pavement and into the bottom of the car, and his engine overrevs and blows four rods out of the pan. I was so stunned by the noise and cloud of smoke that I jumped out of my car as he did his. I helped him push his car out of the street and stood and talked with him. Nice guy. The car was gorgeous too.

I asked him why he wanted to race me and he said he just was havin' fun.

Ouch! That's some expensive fun.

flip

LOL.. gottal love it.. chicago EVO drivers.. Don't you just love everyone who bashes on our NA renesis w/ their FI cars? Obviously, if your car is FI.. it better go fast. Now wait till i get my FI.. then let's dance

AvatarQAZ

I just experienced my first idiot encounter in my 8 yesterday. I was coming off post (barely out the gate) when I heard this VERY loud car coming up behind me. I veer into the turning lane to prepare myself to enter the highway, and this Trans-am (looked like a WS-6) comes beside me and starts looking at my car. I glance over because I can not believe the noise this car was making. I tend to listen to my music loud (between 13-15 on my radio) and he was drowning out my music. Suddenly, I hear the engine cut down... and then boom. The guy downshifts about 250 feet outside a military installation and proceeds to accelerate to nearly (guess) 80 mph. and then follows the speed limit. I set my cruise control at 68 mph and slowly gain on him.

As I get closer, he starts to pull away and then begins to follow the limit again. We finally come to a stop light when this guy decides that his car severely outclasses my car. So, he decides to make a left turn on a fresh red light (about 3-4 seconds fresh). He does not cause an accident... but I was hoping he would.

The stupidity of some people. PUBLIC ROADS ARE NOT MEANT FOR RACING!!! THEY MAKE TRACKS FOR THAT!

grapes

Mitsubishi will probably fold within the next 2 years anyway. Pieces of **** if you ask me.

Snowdog

I think that "Mommy liked your ride..."

Hornet

Yeah, that guy was an idiot! I've driven from the southernmost part of the turnpike all the way up to the GW bridge and I usually see more cops in that stretch than there are up and down I-95 between DC and the southernmost part of South Carolina!

draco067

Sounds like me and my rx-8!

rx8wannahave

SO TRUE....the EVO is fast as heck, but JUST AS UGLY!!!! LOL

I have not seen it JUST YET, but I have seen some dummies looking at the car while driving next too me with that "Gee jolly sir, do you want to race?" NOPE!

People like that are just foolish to say the least!

But, let's all admit that in the back of our EGO...we all would love to have more HP, but that's just my 27 year old mind at work....sorry, you did the right thing!

Iwannarex8

way back in 89 or 90 I was on the highway doing about 65-70 late for work so I pass this guy and get in front and keep my same speed........I guess he thought I was racing him because he speeds up and gets back in front of me he is slowly pulling away and changing lanes he cuts over to the right lane which is empty so I do the same as im trying to get to work, well still maintaining speed I come up on him again becuse theres a car infront of him and a 18 wheeler in front of that.......well the idiot decides hes going to take the emergency median and pass the car and the truck ...........he cuts over to the median and begins to accelerate past the car then gets to about the second set of axles from the back of the truck when the median ends abruptly...... he went over the small curb, there was a big puff of as his tires hit the dirt and his car flew into the air about a foot and then he disappeared down a 20-30 foot slope with a large grassy area at the bottom.........I caught a glimps of his car spinning in the grass as I continued to work

my heart was beating though as I had an urge to follow him for just an instant but said forget it it looked way to dangerous.

NgoRX8

iTrader: (1)

StewC625,

You were saving up your gas. Good job. HAHA
That EVO wasted it thinking of a race.

Aznxkaiser

Everyone seemed more tolerant towards street racing back then.

CarAndDriver

Some losers just can't take "no." Glad he didn't cause an accident.

RX927

iTrader: (1)

Holy Thread Resurrection!!!

StealthTL

iTrader: (1)

Street racing stories, Closed.