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Jims5543 · 08-23-2005, 04:08 PM

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.

Steeve · 08-23-2005, 04:47 PM

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

widebody911 · widebody911's Garage

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.

djmcmath · 08-23-2005, 04:55 PM

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)

legion · 08-23-2005, 05:24 PM

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...

Drago · Drago's Garage

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.

yellowline · 08-23-2005, 06:12 PM

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.

bryanthompson · bryanthompson's Garage

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.

AspireGuy88 · 08-23-2005, 08:28 PM

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.

jfw834 · jfw834's Garage

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???

Moses · 08-24-2005, 06:17 AM

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.

djmcmath · 08-24-2005, 06:21 AM

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Originally posted by Moses
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.

Moses · 08-24-2005, 06:23 AM

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

True.

yellowline · 08-24-2005, 06:56 AM

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Originally posted by bryanthompson
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.

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.

badcar · badcar's Garage

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.

David · David's Garage

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.

vash · vash's Garage

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...

ronin · 08-24-2005, 08:23 AM

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

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

Jims5543 · 08-24-2005, 08:35 AM

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Originally posted by vash
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.

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.

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.

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.