Getting Really Tired Of This!
 

And so it happens…tooling along in my 944 minding my own business - when suddenly out of nowhere in my rearview appears some yahoo in a souped up/tricked out Civic/Neon/WRX/what have you ricer, just itching to engage in “a bit of fun.” Or maybe its some recent American muscle - its front end designed specifically to intimidate…those two inner rounded fog lights glowering like some giant, angry, and deranged insect.

Yesterday morning it happened twice…first time on a long open stretch of about three miles (one of my favorites for getting my car up to about 80 and holding it there) - and, lo and behold in the rearview there appeared a large/ugly dirty red pickup…dual oversized stacks belching and twin flags flapping, passing me like I’m standing still, barely on the edge of control. Second time was in my own neighborhood…purple Neon suddenly hard up against my tail, itching for a fight…then roaring around me right in the middle of some blind twisties. Insane! In my own neighborhood! I’m getting too old for this!

It takes some humility to drive a slow car that other people perceive as fast .
Everybody wants to tell their friends they smoked a Porsche
The rednecks enjoy rolling coal on me in the boxster and 914. Good thing I like the smell of diesel .. I give em the thumbs up and move on about my day .

Try driving an orange R8. Every one wants to race you, escalades,f150s, all BMWs, hondas, etc.

Funny enough no Porsches, Lambos. They just wave or flash lights in approval

They got all that juice and nowhere to use it in real equal competition. They are missing something in life. And then you happened to come along. I've driven Neons at speed and they are not slow. On a track they would not last long though against, say, a 944.

The law of probability will eventually catch up with them. Hopefully it will be a singular property incident.

Strange, I must be oblivious. In over 20 years of driving a 911 I can't ever recall stuff like that happening.

I have driven my El Camino for 32 years and over well over 300,000 miles. It has only happened to me twice that I noticed. I 100% ignore them. I had a pickup right on my tail on the interstate, when I was in my 914 many years ago. The exit I took to get to my neighborhood was favorite corner, and it was decreasing radius to a very tight turn and stop. I never touched my brakes in the turn, and just hung on at the limit of adhesion. It was very satisfying to see the pickup go off into the muddy grass and not stop until the slope of the overpass concrete. The road I take goes right past that overpass and I tapped my horn and waved to him.

It has never happened to me in my 911, or if it did, I was oblivious.

Around here, it's the Mustangs that will roll right up tight and try to pick a race.

The big pick-ups pass everything on the road....they hate to follow cars, no matter how fast the car is going.

You need a Cayenne Turbo S… problem solved.

I'll admit it I had to check this original date of the thread, thinking it popped up because someone resurrected a 10-15 year old one.

A Neon? Really? Yes, I understand that there was a niche community that built them back in the day of the first couple of F&F movies, but a Neon? Heck, I don't even recall the last time I saw one moving down the road under its own power.

In any case, when out in the wild in my not-quite-stock 930, I always took pleasure in ignoring such challenges, versus engaging the other driver in any meaningful way.

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Had it happen yesterday . Driving the Porsche on a 2 lane 45 mph speed limit road . I was going 50 when a Toyota pickup was fast approaching in the rear view mirror .

He was right on my bumper and I stayed at 50 . He eventually passed me on double yellow lines and I gave a friendly wave as he blew past . Idiots are amongst us , just ignore and keep moving forward .

I consideration, these people would be doing all of that anyways.
But the "Porsche in front" is certainly a red cape in front of an angry bull.

In the the old Subaru on Huron River Dr twisties, I has a Miata pull up and we had a nice jot at 70% effort until he passed ahead when it was safe. But he wasn't a d*** about it. Just wanted a little sprint.

People are shocked when I explain to them how "un-fast" my 944 is. I tell them the average soccer mom suv is faster. Hell, my Superduty will leave it in the dust.

If only it was well set up.....:p

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I have this happen relatively frequently around here. I just wave and let them go by. Sometimes I detour onto a twisty road requiring some skill to drive just to see if they follow. Some do, many don't. Often those that follow find out that driving straight is much easier...

Get something like this. It worked for me.

Ask the douche.... Would you race grandpa?



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Surely you meant to use green font for that.

I've had it happen while in my 996. Like others have said, they want to say they smoked a Porsh.

Every morning I take one road to get to I-10 for the trek to my office downtown. That road is 45mph and if you do 45 you will make every light green to the interstate. One particular morning a bunch of folks were doddling around (actually that is every morning). I got myself to the far right lane for a red light. When I took off on green some DB to my left that had been on a Sunday stroll up to that point decided that no way was I passing him. I couldn't be bothered and let him go and got behind him and took my left turn onto I-10. I'm sure he told his buddies at work that he blew away a Porsh this morning. Knucklehead.

I get this all the time in my 2000 Lexus RX300, gotten pretty used to it so I just ignore them. I'd smoke just about anything anyway, it's got a V6 ya know. [emoji6]
Now where's that green font??? [emoji16]

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Funny you should say that. I had it happen in our '86 MR2 and in our '87 924s, but not in the '69 E. In a thread a few years back I related some really dangerous behavior by the driver of an old rusted out Mercury Lynx around the 924. :rolleyes:

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Les

I find when I drive my 996TT it makes people angry. I just smile and wave.
When I drive my red 86 911 it makes people happy, but 20 years ago it made them angry.
Strange world.

I used to get it in my old '88 targa. I even occasionally got it in my miata (which seemed silly since it had 133hp). I don't remember getting it in my boxster. I guess they all assume hairdressers don't race. :D

I always win those contests using the clever strategy of not engaging.

LOL! True, I drove a neon a couple of times back in the day. They were slow, although wasn't there a turbo SRT4 or something for a short while?

I don't think I've seen a neon on the road in years.

Back in the 1990's, my first wife drove a neon, and I had a not well set up 83 944 na

We got to the tollbooths side by side, paid at the same time, the gates went up, and the race was on.
She won, barely. It was a very even race.

Looking up quick stats the 944 had 143 hp and 2601 lbs listed. 18.18 lbs/ per hp The neon had 130 hp and 2343 lbs. 18.02 lbs/ per hp.

I always thought the na 944 had 150, but I surely had lost a couple of horses over the years.

That Neon was so fast the paint started flaking off when the car was only about 3 years old!

That sounds about right. She never let me forget she won!

Irony...often had ricers challenge the 911. But few challenges with my Mustang. The only one I accepted was against a Boxster S driver who tried to outpull me going up the Salem I-5 hill. It was fun watching his expression change from "I got this" to "WTF???"

I think he must have thought the unadorned Bullitt Mustang was a V-6.

You need one of those Bond cars. You know the sort; the ones that fire a machine gun out the back.

If I'm being challenged to a run-off while driving the Prelude...I try to kill some time so that my bottle heater will warm up the nitrous. Much bigger hit when it's extra hot.:)

tailgaters and those other douchbags are the only time when I think the ability to "roll coal" seems reasonable and justified.

Guy I got my 914 from is a Mopar guy. 1972 and older, and an SRT4 Stage 3 factory upgrades, whatever that means. Dealer sold him the parts, but would not install them. Stupid fast

Don't mess with the Neon...
Thank-you.
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Bill I like the Bond car idea...but I'd be choosing to use the oil slick!

If its at a traffice light I give them the rev and nod. Then just let them race.
If its on the freeway, try to get them to follow you around a cloverleaf.

You guys don't remember the neon ACR cars ? I bet they were faster around the cones and the track than most 944's .

I had mentioned in an earlier post that I must be oblivious because I rarely had encounters as many of you describe. Some found that hard to believe.

I think a lot has to do with where you're driving. For several years I was commuting my 993 to Scottsdale (AZ) where I worked. The cars I would occasionally see on the way to work (Ferraris, Lambos, etc) make a Porsche look pretty ordinary.

Kurt I think you have a good point about location.

It is exceedingly rare in my (rural northern Vermont) neck of the woods to see a Porsche...and those that do appear tend to be SUV's and most if not all are just passing through. In fact the only other P-car I know of around here is the 85.5 944 that I'd sold to a local mechanic as a father/son project.

The "dark underbelly" here is more political - with the more extreme/insular/"unfriendly" elements ripe with undercurrents of anger and rage, which I can see on full display in the number of smoke-belching pickups with their twin (and occasionally confederate) flags fluttering angrily, and whose owners might view my Porsche as a symbol of that which seeks to oppress them.

But I cannot hold any of these folks in judgement because many are my neighbors who wouldn't think twice about pulling me out of a ditch were I to slide off the road during an ice storm. Plus they all have their own, and sometimes extreme beyond my imagining... stresses and issues with themselves and their families...with an increasing number of these, unfortunately, being drug related.

Wouldn't that be a Beetle?

Wife gets this all time from young guys in mustangs and camaros. She has a AMG cls63. She just gives it a little bump and they back off.
She just laughs

Back in '96 my wife drove a black Impala SS. Her brother bought one and she thought it was a cool hot rod. After 2 years of being dogged she gave up and bought a 356. Nobody messed with her when she drove that.

For a huge car, the SS handled decent. Just a police car in leather and a fancy grille. I should have painted the doors white then she would have been left alone. :D

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^^^ Or a luggage rack on top.

You don't have a well setup 944.

Back in the days of my youth I had a `67 Chevelle Super Sport - a very fast 1/8 or 1/4 mile car. All kinds of mods to motor, rear gear ratio, carbs and intake, headers...
When someone want to race me, I would ignore them. Before and after the Chevelle, I was young and foolish and would race any time anywhere. In the Chevelle I knew what I had and could blow them away. I think that when you are confident in your car and yourself there is no temptation to prove anything.

When someone starts following too close in the Porsche I very gradually start to slow down. Eventually I am barely doing the speed limit and they get tired of going slow and pass. I got great joy one time when one yahoo blew past me and then just a little farther down the highway he was on the side of the road with an unmarked trooper having a chat with him. I so wanted to beep and wave.

No too much around here but I don't pay much attention to others unless they are hauling azz and I stay away from those who go 90 -100 weaving around the crowded fwy. Most of the time, I am the guy driving faster then most on the road. If they tailgate me, I do one of two things, get on the gas or move over. if they blow by me on the left or right, good. One thing i found about tailgaters, they do it for 10 seconds and they are off to get around the grandpa driver. Around here anyway. When I drive my Porsches, I get no tailgaters what I do get sometime is these punk kids try to block me from passing by going the same speed as the car on the right on a two lane blvd. That pisses me off. When I feel like being a hooligan, I shift and go around them like they are standing still in a safe place or get in the gutter lane at the red. Its drag race with no contest. Hey man, I gotz to go.