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Originally Posted by Gogar
Everytime one of these threads comes up I wonder if you guys REALLY think that someone is jealous of your $20K antique car.
It's like that girl on Maury or something that complains she can't get a date because she's too beautiful.
Nobody cares about your car. A-holes are just A-holes, no matter what you're driving.
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Now that's just naive. People may not "care" about the cars, but many of these same types described above seem to want to demonstrate their car's speed and prowess when they see us. Not sure why, but I have my ideas.
For example, a couple of years ago I was driving a fellow Pelican's '74 911 for a few miles along a winding road - just to get a feel for how his car felt compared to my '84. I'm cruising along this road, not driving too fast at all because the car felt a little different to me, when I came up behind a dually pickup. Then he suddenly shot out of there like a canon and I remember thinking "whoa, that guy is really moving". He made it around about three or four corners before oversteering into a telephone pole and flipping it, ending up upside down in the middle of the road. He was a young guy. He was OK, but drunk. The cops hauled him away.
Last week, at 5AM on the 405 freeway, while driving to work in the 996, I'm cruising along in the #2 lane with my cruise control on and set to 75. Almost nobody is on the freeway because it's a Saturday. Suddenly, some little Honda pulls up from behind and to my right at high speed, sweeps across my tail and proceeds to pull up alongside my left, perfectly even with me. He then starts the whole "wanna drag race?" scenario - you know, revving it up repeatedly, lunging back and forth. I'm thinking "what the hell! Why me?!" I looked over at the two kids in the car and I shook my head "NO" and they just kept at it. They wanted a race. I finally just looked right at them, made eye contact and waved them on. They finally got the message. Sheesh.
It
is the cars. The other drivers may, or may not "care" about the Porsches but many of them
do seem to feel the need to show our cars up, for whatever reason.
