Rice bashing on Craigs List
 

He has a point.

Get that all the time in my Dodge Truck. It has a couple related decals on it in regards to the car that is usually on the trailer behind it.

When I am driving the truck around town sans trailer I get ricers stepping up all the time. The decals are the flame the and Hondas are moths.

Its funny, when I am in my RX-7 this never happens. But, when I had my MINI it did all the time. They figured the MINI was an easy win like my truck is an easy win. Its no fun loosing all the time.

The funny part is both the truck and MINI could and did, on occasion, whip their asses.

I wonder if Honda will decide to include "craptastic" in their next ad campaign?? I love that word!

On the rare occasions I drive my 911 on the street, every Ricer in a 2-mile radius zeros in on me. When I added the bannana wing, it had an effect similar to slathering my naked body with caramel syrup and rolling around on an ant hill: most people would be repulsed (and rightly so) but the ants seemed to love it.

Thom, I think you've just stumbled on a new diet plan. Not only did I just lose my appetite, I'm about to lose my lunch, too. (blech)

When I drove a Grand Am...I had every ricer in town trying to race me. I get it sometimes in my (V6) F150, but I don't even bother looking over at them to laugh...they take it as a sign that I intend to race.

I never get challenged in my 951. Kinda funny, it's not all that fast. Still, I don't like to spin the tires...

I get challenged here all the time. I usually just toy with them until about 4500 rpm, then the hammer comes down until ~10 mph over the limit. Back off, let them pass in a blaze of fart-can glory...thinking they've won, but knowing they didn't.

It's a funny thing, I don't get challenged in my car either. They give me thumbs up, turn around more than 90 degrees to get a good look, "west side" signs, ask me if I want to sell, etc. Never a bad word to say about it.

yellowline, that happens when you're in your 944?? I've had ricers across the street, at the opposite stoplight rev their engines at me and try to race... or something. I don't know how they could think they were racing, since they were going the opposite way, I still don't get that one.

yeah my friend just put a b-16a motor in his 93 honda civic hatch and he races everything in sight. i mean come on the kid raced a little girl on her razor scooter and he was like hardcore about it too, OH WOW YOU BEAT A SCOOTER IN FIRST GEAR.. BADASSSS. i think not my stupid friend your car sucks. go race a 69 camaro or something honda boy, i think there extra valves and racing fuel might make them lose.

hehe...thanks that was a good laugh.....i've got a couple jacka$$es living right across the street from me in LA. they each have a stupid civic and their idea of fun seems to be spray-painting their wheels/calipers different colors. do they really want to call attn. to their 8" rotors???

People look at my car all the time at lights. Usually I get a smile or a thumbs up. Even the boys in the Supras with the body kits usually smile. Nobody challenges me to race. Maybe they just think it's a cute old car.

My car definitely draws more looks than the new 911's, just like the old Vettes get more stares than the new ones.

That's because it's at least a little miraculous that a car that old still runs.

True. :D

Maybe red=horsepower to them, I don't know.

I was challenged once last year by a carful of young guys in an Aurora. I think I said "nah, that's OK." Other than that, no challenges.

I was challenged all the time when I had my Boxster. But since I have had the 964, the less than 500 miles I have driven it, I only get looks from the fart can contingency.

I've challenged other car's in my truck, like a new vette several months ago, but I had no illusions of winning, I just wanted to see a car I like be driven fast. I do let off about 10mph over the speed limit.

Many years ago a ZX-11 pulled next to me at a stop light. I was in my old car with the local roadracing sticker on the back window. I told him I wanted to see him get on it. He said why you know what it'll do. To which I replied that's exactly why I wanted to see it. He capitulated with a hard launch carrying the front wheel a foot off the ground for 50 ft or so. It's not about racing, it's about the sights and sounds of a high performance vehicle giving you goose bumps. Why would we bother driving high performance vehicles if we don't like to see them be driven.

happens all the time! but not at lights for me. always while i am droning down a freeway. i see the car speed next to me, slow to pace me and then the reving starts.....if that schit happened on a twisty road, i might just do my own thing at my own pace and see if the fool can hang.

WHAT KILLS ME THO, is the huge percentage of HOT girls in the passenger seat. i mean the dude is wearing a cap with the brim ironed flat, and the hat is sitting skewed on the dudes head! God is such the jokster...

oh, how times change. in the 90s I used to get challenged all the time. and I never played into their hands. well, maybe...

That exact thing happened to me on the Interstate, a kid in a Honda Del-Sol pulled along side and gave a couple of braps from his fart pipe. I was in my MINI at the time.

I was approaching my exit and it is one you look foward to taking in a nice handling car. It sweeps to the right then a decreasing radius to the left and another decreasing radius to the right again. I can take it comfortably in my MINI at 70 MPH and if I want the tires to bark in protest 90-100. Posted speed is 35. :D

I was about 0.5 miles from the get-em-off ramp and gave the ricer a taste of 3rd gear and supercharger whine. He gave chase onto the ramp. My the time I was on the other road and done with the ramp he was no where to be seen. I was afraid he wrecked. Then he popped up in my rear view about 30-40 cars back. He stayed there too. :D

I am pushing 40 and carry on like a 15 year old sometimes. I am ashamed of myself but just cannot turn it off. I am a diseased man.

you juvenile delinquent, you :D

Don't get me wrong. I've had ricers pull up next to me, they just keep looking the other way. Any Porsche is pretty rare here, so I've just thought that they assumed it was fast because it is a Porsche.

The weird thing is that a lot of these ricers don't know how to drive their cars. Even if they have a WRX or 350z, whatever. The point is that my car is 20 years older than theirs and I either still womp em or put up a good enough fight up to the point when I think enough is enough. Oh and my car is stock, theirs isnt. This goes to show that most of the race is based on the driver's skills, not how loud their stupid exhaust can be.

I don't do much in town driving(living in the Va countryside) So I don't get chalanged to the drags much. I do get great joy out of some punk with the instant rice mobile trying to push me down the secondary highways and back roads. Havn't found one yet with a set as big as my 40yr. old ones. It's funny I get tried more in the BMW than in the Porsche.

i get it in the bmw almost all the time as well, like the other day on my way home and on the interstate. some young kid, with a couple of girls, in a camero (newer convertable, w/ a aftermarket can)pulled up next to me and reved it a few times. then he made like a prom dress. next thing i know, my fiance is telling me to just catch them and fly past them, so, as this grin accross my face is reminding me why i love her, i put the pedal down and within 8-9 seconds and 130mph we sail right past the kids.

and the guy actually followed me to the video store and asked me questions as to what kind a work i had "up in thur". and to say if he wouldnt of had the girls with him he would have really gotten on it (but im thinking his 115 with a V6 is prolly getting on it)

haha my town is trashy

Yeah my friend who has his honda civic cx with the motor swap came up to me today and was like "Dude today on the highway I topped out my car!" so i was interested, so i asked how fast man?! 125 and the fuel shut off and the check engine light went off... 125! wtf my grandma's mini van goes faster. man he hauls ass.

I read that on "the best of craigslist" about a month back and It is so true. For those who havent read the best of craigslist you should really go check it out.

Hiedi

"However, I suppose the near-verticle air dam which is my windshield isn't neccesarily discouraging to someone who puts a god-damn wing on the back of a front wheel drive car. More downforce for the rear wheels then, eh? That way you can accelerate faster, right? Great work, dip*****."

Brilliant :) Sounds a lot like Maddux, doesn't it?


When I first got my 944, I had a craptastic Civic hatchback rev his engine at me when i was in THE LEFT TURN LANE, WITH MY BLINKER ON.

lmao. believe it or not, I actually had the same happen to me, only difference is that they were in the left-turn lane. now how stupid is that?

Well, it finally happened to me last night. I was coming home from taking my 8yo son out for dinner before school starts. At a light in town, I pulled up next to a Subi WRX STI. I was looking at his car (I had thought of buying one) and he looked back at me. Then he started adjusting his hands and fingers on the wheel while looking between me and the light. When the light turned green, he waited for me to start then finally took off. When he saw I wasn't with him, he backed off. When I caught up with him, be took off again.

BTW, the car I was driving - '96 VW Passat TDI. Yup, a whole 90hp of tire burning power and huge 14" rims.

My favorite anti-rice bumper sticker is "only milk and juice come in 2 liters." I'd have one made, except my car's a whole 2.5 liters. I think it's made for a 5+ liter American car. (or a 928 :D)

I have a confession. When i first got the roach i found a Civic on the freeway with an exhaust you could stick your head into and initiated a race with him. Alf bad.

Yes, of course, bad Alf, but you did kick his butt right?

Those souped up Hondas seem to have problems going 60-100mph. Must be that big wing in the back causing a bunch of drag :)

alf

you know the only reason why they rev there engines when your going the other way or not even going straight is because they know you can get out of your car kick it and make it explode.