Do you have a Moron on your tail?

Gunter · Gunter's Garage

Whenever I go on a tour, I find one, or more idiots who come up close behind me to either prove that they can keep up with a Porsche or else try to get into a race. Depending on how I feel that day, I just let them pass. But sometimes the devil makes me do this: I wait for a nice, long uphill-curve and go with a down-shift afterburner which usually makes the young driver look foolish in front of his girl friend.
Or, I pass a few cars on a double line to put some distance between myself and the Andretty-wanna-be. How do you deel with these Morons who put their headlights right over your rear bumper? Especially Pick-up Truck-Rambos?

poorb0yw · 12-03-2002, 11:11 AM

I slow down to about 35 mph so they pull up beside me and wave them by. Probably gives them an ego boost and I really don't need to prove myself to them.

sammyg2 · 12-03-2002, 11:30 AM

Isn't that what windshield washers are for? Every time someone tailgates me in my pickemup my windshield suddenly gets all dirty :-)
Most of the time they back off as the excess water hits their window.

Bill Douglas · 12-03-2002, 12:14 PM

Are you allowed handguns in your state...

targa911S · 12-03-2002, 12:20 PM

Yeah it's like being a gunfighter in the old west. I get Toyotas with plastics bags for windows that want "beat the Porsche"

I just slow down and let em pass...f*** em. I got nothing to prove to those guys. Vipers are another story...i tangled with one on a Sunday blast...won't do it again...I thought my car stalled! Jesus!

Superman · 12-03-2002, 12:30 PM

I defeat them by not taking the bait. We both know which car is cooler/faster. Racing them would be like putting after your partner says "that's a gimme."

I'll play at times, if the other car is worthy. I don't race Vipers, but the reason for that is different from the reason I don't race pickup trucks.

nhurto · 12-03-2002, 12:38 PM

Most of the time I don't take the bait. Learned my lesson with an $800 speeding ticket. Sometimes I can't resist the urge and have to spank them.

More often, when I'm driving my Jeep I have the urge to really F with people in expensive sports cars that can't drive them. This weekend I outdrove a guy in an S4 on an exit ramp. As soon as we hit the straight he put the pedal to the floor. Thanks to PCA DE events, I had already proven my point in the turns.

tshih · tshih's Garage

I also slow down and let them pass. It's easier on everyone and the 911 if you don't invoke an accident by slamming on your brakes and make them pay for being 100% wrong.

Times like that I wish I was driving a Hummer or Abrams Tank and then I'd definitely slam on my brakes for no apparent reason except to see that moron splattered on my rear bumper!

rattlsnak · rattlsnak's Garage

If people are coming up behind you, you are driving to slow in the fast lane. Funny thing is, the only time people move out of the way when I come up behind them is when Im in the Porsche. They always move over quiclky. When in my Neon, or any other car,.. not the case!!

Overpaid Slacker · 12-03-2002, 01:26 PM

I don't "race" many cars on public roads -- even Ferraris or Vipers -- but occasionally, I'll just let rip with a healthy dose of boost for a few hundred feet of separation and slow back down.

I saw this piece once on Discovery, about how lions, when approached, will yawn (baring fangs) and maybe stretch, flexing the claws, as a nonchalant "you *sure* you want some of this?" I guess it's just delusions of Darwinian grandeur on my part.

JP

Rouxzy · 12-03-2002, 01:57 PM

Just remember one thing, Porsches do not have to prove anything, the ricers do. Why do they own ricers? Because they're to stupid to realize that they spent more money on that piece of sh!@# then they would have spent on a real car.

ccandgc · ccandgc's Garage

exactly...all those gay(no offense!) stickers that they cover their cars with, gigantic wings and all those DVD monitors sticking out of every crack.....they just beg to be noticed by how much $$$ they wasted on a Honda, Toyota or a Chevy Malibu

sammyg2 · 12-03-2002, 02:18 PM

LOL, about two years ago I was driving along the freeway in my V8 914 and decided to play with a Lamborghini Diablo. Big mistake.

I had to check and make sure I wasn't in reverse.

Kevin G · Kevin G's Garage

Let them pass it's the adult thing to do, but man do I like being a kid sometimes.

Embs · Embs's Garage

It doesn't matter what your driving or which lane your in somebody always wants you out of their way, their life and time are more important than yours, obviously. So they ride your a$$ risking life and limb to "maybe" arrive at their destination a minute sooner.

I used to be a bit of an "anxious" driver always zipping around, but then one day it changed for good. I was driving through Cincinnati Ohio, downtown and stuck behind some slow old man. I finally passed him (cursing all the way). Then I am stopped at a light, right as the light turns green here comes the old man putting straight through, he never touched his brakes. I zipped passed him again and at the next light, there he was putting straight through. I looked in my mirror and quickly figured out that I was the dumba$$. The old guy was going half the speed I was and breezing through every light.

Zeke · 12-03-2002, 03:13 PM

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Originally posted by Embs
I was driving through Cincinnati Ohio, downtown and stuck behind some slow old man. I finally passed him (cursing all the way). Then I am stopped at a light, right as the light turns green here comes the old man putting straight through, he never touched his brakes. I zipped passed him again and at the next light, there he was putting straight through. I looked in my mirror and quickly figured out that I was the dumba$$. The old guy was going half the speed I was and breezing through every light.

Hah! I do the *old man* thing every day with a Clint Eastwood smirk on my face looking straight ahead.

rstoll · 12-03-2002, 03:25 PM

Yes, I call it the "Dodge Ram" mentality.

I am learning to ignore them.

Embs · Embs's Garage

Quote:

Originally posted by Zeke

Hah! I do the *old man* thing every day with a Clint Eastwood smirk on my face looking straight ahead.

I have been doing "the old man" thing for about 15 years now.
It's funny that the old fart I never knew taught me a valuable lesson. It ain't worth risking your life and the lives of others to arrive at your destination 30 seconds earlier!

zotman72 · 12-03-2002, 03:34 PM

My solution... start with a two pipe sport muffler and 2.4S MFI, a downshift to gear that will have the engine @ 6.5K and then back off. That wonderful, melodic exhaust noise is incredible for chasing those Dodge Pickups and minvan drivers away from your ass end. Works everytime.
Bill

Rouxzy · 12-03-2002, 03:47 PM

Here's what works best. Drop it down a gear, punch it then let off after about 25 feet, and watch the idiot go flying by you only to get bagged by the cop up ahead watching the whole thing. Works great, I did it to a ricer last summer. His friends who are also friends of my son still needle him about it. Who's the dope now?