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Devyl posted:It may be CX. I was just looking for a good time to ENHANCE! The world will never know... You can see the edges of the X meeting the C at the closest zoom. Also I'm really, really glad I don't have to worry about incidents like that anymore, because my bumpers are big black steel behemoths.
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Fucknag posted:Counterpoint: Is... oh my god is that a totally stock Honda Civic?  It's so rare to see them in the wild.
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Code Jockey posted:Is... oh my god is that a totally stock Honda Civic? Don't worry you could definitely have one if you don't mind paying 8,000 bucks for a barebones old civic with 210k miles.
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JP Money posted:Don't worry you could definitely have one if you don't mind paying 8,000 bucks for a barebones old civic with 210k miles. In 2000, I paid less than that for a very, very clean 96 Civic EX coupe (5 speed) with 65k. Completely stock except for an aftermarket head unit (Sony tape deck + 6 disc changer in the trunk). 110k, 1 1/2 engines, and 3 transmissions later, I started thinking beating the poo poo out of econoboxes wasn't such a good idea. * 1 1/2 because I sold it to a friend dirt cheap with pretty much every bearing spun, it would hit about 2500 if you floored it in neutral. Protip: if the oil light comes on at 6000 RPM, you're hosed. He dropped another engine in it and drove it for several years.. and kept sending me pictures of all the random drugs I'd lost in the car 
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Powershift posted:But it's only $4,900 bucks! Seems like a pretty good deal to me. Only $100 per foot! I haven't seen too many terrible driver stories in this topic, frankly I'm surprised they don't have their own topic but I have a couple to share. A couple months ago I was driving down Route 1 in northern Massachusetts between Newburyport and Rowley. For those who don't know, this is a long straight section of 55mph road with long passing zones interspersed with hills. I was behind a bro truck with big stacks, who was behind an old fellow in a Cadillac pokeing along at 45 mph. This enraged bro truck man, but oncoming traffic was too heavy for him to pass in the first two passing zones. When we reached the third passing zone there was no oncoming traffic so bro truck initiated a fast and angry pass, then slamed on his brakes as soon as he's in front of the Cadillac. The Cadillac slamed on his brakes, and bro truck drove along at approximately 15 mph. After about 20 seconds the Cadillac took the bait and attempted to overtake the truck, which the truck used as an opportunity to match speed with him, blocking the Cadillac in the oncoming traffic lane. Fortunately there was still no oncoming traffic, but the bro truck blocked him into the wrong lane until well after the passing zone ended, then floored it again and tore off at about 80mph. The Cadillac made it back into the correct lane with maybe 3 seconds to spare before oncoming traffic coming over the hill would have hit him. A similar event occurred maybe 4 miles from that spot about a month ago on a smaller road. This one has a 35 mph speed limit, but due to how empty it is people usually go 45+. I came up on a 90's Buick following another 90's GM product (they all look pretty similar to me) we'll call him slowbie. Slowbie was going about 25 mph, and seemed to be coasting down in speed when I came up on them. The Buick was displeased by this and attempted to pass him (illegally). Slowbie took offense at this and stepped on the gas. Since neither car was particularly fast this resulted in a slow speed drag race, with Slowbie blocking the Buick from getting out of the oncoming traffic lane. Neither of them seemed to want to give up, and took it up to about 70 mph before the Buick pulled ahead and completed the pass. Cue Slowbie tailgating the Buick at 65 mph on a twisty 35 mph road for the next mile or so, before Buick slammed into a hard right turn onto a side road, almost skidding into a telephone pole and pulling a one wheel burnout for about 40 feet. Slowbie continued on his way at about 65-70 mph until the next light. When I got closer I saw that this car was driven by a teenaged boy and had 3 other teenagers as passengers. So, anyone else got any good stories of stupid and/or dangerous drivers? Disgruntled Bovine fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Jun 17, 2013 |
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dphi posted:I remember seeing a few drivers in SF a few years back that, after parking, opened their trunk and flipped down an attached cushion to protect their bumpers from parallel parkers. I thought that was a pretty cool idea. May as well go old-skool. 
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"Disgruntled Bovine" posted:So, anyone else got any good stories of stupid and/or dangerous drivers? My usual experience is impatient knobs like that.
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Was coming back to town on the interstate the other day at about 82 in a 75, and a lady in a dodge ram passed me, doing like 83-84. So I'm not that far behind for quite awhile. Then we get to a slight bend, she brakes, on the drat interstate on a dry sunny day down to like 68mph. So of course I catch right back up. She speeds up, then does it again right next to a semi-truck. So the next corner she does it again and I go by and just decide to pick it up a couple mph so I don't have to be around them. Nope, she speeds up, stays basically right behind me the whole way back to town, then end up passing me again. So loving annoying. I spent a couple hours on a 2-lane highway in a rainstorm a few weeks ago and that was so terrible I hardly know where to start. I'd guess the line of 6 cars going 20 under behind a dump truck afraid to pass. Finally there was a long passing zone and I went by them all.
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She was either being a dipshit or attempting to bait you into acting as her radar/lidar catcher.
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We had that thread ages ago and it was a cars/text version of angry old men. It was beautiful 
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jamal posted:I spent a couple hours on a 2-lane highway in a rainstorm a few weeks ago and that was so terrible I hardly know where to start. I'd guess the line of 6 cars going 20 under behind a dump truck afraid to pass. Finally there was a long passing zone and I went by them all.
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dphi posted:I remember seeing a few drivers in SF a few years back that, after parking, opened their trunk and flipped down an attached cushion to protect their bumpers from parallel parkers. I thought that was a pretty cool idea. Juuuust starting to see these in Philadelphia. Betting: a) These will proliferate b) Before long, users will never bother to remove them.
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GT Special posted:Putting your motor back together and lost the alternator mount? No problem! just use a ratchet strap! I've posted this before, but, I did this on my old Celebrity. Broke the lovely lovely cast aluminum dogbone mount, replaced it with a ratchet strap. Worked surprisingly well.
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dphi posted:I remember seeing a few drivers in SF a few years back that, after parking, opened their trunk and flipped down an attached cushion to protect their bumpers from parallel parkers. I thought that was a pretty cool idea. I would rather have huge stainless steel spikes than soft bumpers. Feel free to back into me, but it's going to be expensive.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:So, anyone else got any good stories of stupid and/or dangerous drivers? My dad is a magnet for poo poo falling off other cars/trucks. So far, he's had a 6 foot piece of rebar go through his grille, had a diamond-plate toolbox (the kind in the back of pickup trucks) fall off the truck in front of him and destroyed the front end of his truck, a small pond liner fall out of a truck and get suctioned to the top of his car (blocking his view completely), and a wheel from a semi fell off and smack his truck.
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Devyl posted:My dad is a magnet for poo poo falling off other cars/trucks. So far, he's had a 6 foot piece of rebar go through his grille, had a diamond-plate toolbox (the kind in the back of pickup trucks) fall off the truck in front of him and destroyed the front end of his truck, a small pond liner fall out of a truck and get suctioned to the top of his car (blocking his view completely), and a wheel from a semi fell off and smack his truck. So you never, ever ride with your dad right?
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Dad stories! (also I have recently started using "but I need to get more power from the car so when we have a boy he will know he has a cool dad" as an excuse to spend money on the car.) My father once drove under a semi-trailer in a Mazda 626 when it turned wide in front of him and he wasn't ready. It didn't go well at all and took half the roof off the car. Luckily dad had ducked down well before the car went under. The impact brought the bonnet up and smashed it into the underside of the trailer. He said that although the car wouldn't start it did beep angrily and loudly until the truckie disconnected the battery. That car also had air vents that moved back and forth. Its best feature.
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Was on the highway going around 70-75 when a riced out accord catches up with me. He pulls up beside me, drops down two gears, and takes off. I do nothing, don't understand why people bother to do poo poo like that on public roads. He hits the brakes, I catch up to him, he pulls the same stunt again. And again. And again. It's starting to get annoying at this point, but as I'm catching up to him again for oh, I don't know, the 5th or 6th time, a cop has gotten on the highway just beside me (3 lane highway). Once the cop and I catch up to him (I saw the cop so I slowed right down to the limit, and the cop was definitely pacing me) I notice the cop looking over at me so I point at the rice bucket. Cop looks over, and the rice bucket drops two gears and takes off. Queue lights, sirens, and the cop giving me a wave. I was laughing for the rest of the drive.
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tobu posted:Dad stories! (also I have recently started using "but I need to get more power from the car so when we have a boy he will know he has a cool dad" as an excuse to spend money on the car.) But... in the Fast and the Furious they clearly show that cars fit under semi trailers.
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Rhyno posted:So you never, ever ride with your dad right? His normal driving scares me bad enough. I hate to say it, but the man can't drive. He's one of those people who stop at a red light and slowly inch forward every few seconds until the light turns green; and by then he's almost half-way across the drat road. He taught me all about cars, but jeez does he need to take driving classes again.
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TrueChaos posted:Was on the highway going around 70-75 when a riced out accord catches up with me. He pulls up beside me, drops down two gears, and takes off. I do nothing, don't understand why people bother to do poo poo like that on public roads. He hits the brakes, I catch up to him, he pulls the same stunt again. And again. And again. It's starting to get annoying at this point, but as I'm catching up to him again for oh, I don't know, the 5th or 6th time, a cop has gotten on the highway just beside me (3 lane highway). Once the cop and I catch up to him (I saw the cop so I slowed right down to the limit, and the cop was definitely pacing me) I notice the cop looking over at me so I point at the rice bucket. Cop looks over, and the rice bucket drops two gears and takes off. Queue lights, sirens, and the cop giving me a wave. I was driving back to Oakland from Sacramento a month ago and had someone do this in a donked out SC400 with horrible green paint. Absolutely insisted on racing us for MILES, weaved in and out of traffic and poo poo like it was F&F. I can't imagine what this guy was thinking, especially since I was driving my wife and mother in her boring-rear end Accord. I couldn't help but laugh at it, he wasn't even being aggressive but the guy had to be on something. My dad had a swapped '71 Satellite with a 440 6-Pack out of a Challenger R/T shell that rusted to poo poo. I helped him swap in the motor when I was 8, and then got to see him pass a line of about 50 cars around a miles long passing zone back when 101 going to Port Angeles was 2 lanes wide. I'm pretty sure I was destined to become a car guy when I watched the speedometer needle disappear into the dashboard (it was one of those huge mopar rectangular ones that went to 120.) The noise that motor made stuck with me for years.
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I used to drive tour buses, and it was quite often that we'd have 4-5 buses following each other for the same trip. Our entire fleet was governed to varying shades of 65mph, so it was next to impossible to catch up to the group if something slowed you down. There's no real point in following nose to tail outside of a police escort, but the lead driver feels better when he can see or at least radio everybody in his convoy. (our radios were lovely and we'd often lose reception behind hills or over a mile) We often had coaches, chaperones, helicopter parents, etc. join our convoy in cars, and they just LOVED to jump between our buses during the trip. Each time they slowed down in the middle of our pack, we'd either all have to slow down or just deal with having a big gap in our lineup, which would then fill with traffic and drive us further apart. One of the idiots tailgated me for a few hundred miles of the OH Turnpike, I was able to leave him him at the Westgate when he followed me into the EZ-Pass lane. He didn't have a transponder. Bye Bye!
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One thing I've seen Quebec drivers do here in Upstate NY is annoying. It happens a lot and almost always it's a Quebecois. I think they do it because they get bored with long trips to NYC. They'll tear up the highway behind you, especially if you're in the 3rd lane and start tailgating you. If you get over, they pass you, then a mile or so later, get in front of you and slow down to the speed limit or under. Then you pass them, and they come tearing up behind you again, pass you, and slow down. It's like leapfrog and they just try to bait you. So annoying. Another fun thing (not Quebec specific) is a road near my parents house. In NY the default speed limit on all roads, especially county back roads, is 55 unless otherwise posted. There's a long section which has no signs so it's 55. There's people who don't know or don't care so they go 40-45 and won't speed up and they repainted it last year and made almost the whole run double lines so no passing. The next section, after a 4 way stop, is 30 and drops to 15 in a school zone. Cops LOVE to hide out in 3-4 spots and nail you in or out of the school zone for speeding, so I always do 30 (or 15) there. And you get assholes who tailgate you, flash their lights, etc because they want to speed. The best combo are the jerks who regulate you to 45 in the 55, and if you are able to pass, tailgate you in the 30 as if it say "see, you shouldn't have passed me! I would go 45 on this whole road, you should too!"
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This may in fact be my single favorite feature in any car in history. I remember having it in a 626 we had as a loaner once and it was awesome. Why don't more cars do this
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Astroman posted:The best combo are the jerks who regulate you to 45 in the 55, and if you are able to pass, tailgate you in the 30 as if it say "see, you shouldn't have passed me! I would go 45 on this whole road, you should too!" Love those fuckers. 30 mph speed limit? Better do 45! 55 mph speed limit? Better do 45! 
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Fortunately there was still no oncoming traffic, but the bro truck blocked him into the wrong lane until well after the passing zone ended, then floored it again and tore off at about 80mph. The Cadillac made it back into the correct lane with maybe 3 seconds to spare before oncoming traffic coming over the hill would have hit him. Why couldn't the caddy just slow down earlier and get back in the proper lane instead of risking lives with only 3 seconds to spare? Sure the bro truck driver was an rear end in a top hat but the caddy driver was a dumb rear end in a top hat. The only thing blocking the caddy in the passing lane was his ego.
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A lot of people just have no situational awareness of how fast they're going, and will tear rear end down the road if they're alone, but will freak out about speed with other cars around them. Sure, they could, you know, look at their speedos, but if people monitored their gauges responsibly you wouldn't have so many people driving around with no coolant or oil either, or just leaving their turn signals on for miles.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Love those fuckers. 30 mph speed limit? Better do 45! 55 mph speed limit? Better do 45! Ugh...This is my trip home up river road. It's either people driving slow to look at the pretty sights or idiots who do 40. In the 45 MPH zones as well as the 25 and 30 MPH zones through the small towns.
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Astroman posted:One thing I've seen Quebec drivers do here in Upstate NY is annoying. It happens a lot and almost always it's a Quebecois. I think they do it because they get bored with long trips to NYC. That's a road rage beating just waiting to happe.
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Astroman posted:One thing I've seen Quebec drivers do here in Upstate NY is annoying. It happens a lot and almost always it's a Quebecois. I think they do it because they get bored with long trips to NYC. Its not a quebec thing, its super prevalent on the west coast too. On road trips I'll give them 1 opportunity to pass me again, if i pass them twice and then they come speeding up on my rear end again I wont move and they can go around me if they want.
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Devyl posted:My dad is a magnet for poo poo falling off other cars/trucks. So far, he's had a 6 foot piece of rebar go through his grille, had a diamond-plate toolbox (the kind in the back of pickup trucks) fall off the truck in front of him and destroyed the front end of his truck, a small pond liner fall out of a truck and get suctioned to the top of his car (blocking his view completely), and a wheel from a semi fell off and smack his truck. When I was a kid my parents were driving up a hill when a ladder came off the back of a pickup and went right through the windshield, right over me and a couple inches from going through my Dad's head. I report every unsecured load I see to the police, if you can't tie your poo poo down you deserve a ticket. They're usually really thankful because NO ONE reports this poo poo until there's a ladder sitting sideways on i5 and a 5 car pileup. Drunken Lullabies fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Jun 18, 2013 |
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I've probably posted this before, this happened to me on I-95 a couple years after I started driving. It was in the road and a truck kicked it up spinning into the air and through my windshield. Landed on the passenger seat.  I still have the pole under my desk at work.
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gently caress that's terrifying.  Living in bumfuck Oregon and driving around bumfuck Washington has exposed me to countless unsecured loads. Back when I was farming, we tied our equipment down pretty tightly when we'd travel, but some of the poo poo I see other people doing is basically just "stuff as much junk into the truck as you can, gently caress nets/bungee cords/whatever". Landscape companies and painters/contractors are the worst I've seen, aside from the farmers. Drivers to/from dumps and moving are frequent offenders too.
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My dad saw a lovely contractors truck lose a few 5 gallon pails, a spade, and a ladder into i495 while commuting in the mid 90s... no pictures, but he said it was awesome because the spade bounced off the windshield of the marked police cruiser that was right behind the truck. Guess who got pulled over immediately? Sweet, sweet justice.
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The poo poo that is getting really old out here in CO is these assholes hauling dirt/rocks due to all the construction. This is a necessary evil, but I swear to god, half these assholes don't even latch the rear gate on the dumptruck so it's just constantly spewing dirt/rocks onto the road for miles behind it. Which brings me to my next point. Buy a 3m clear bra. 2 years and 23k miles and my front bumper is still pristine, while my windshield already looks like complete poo poo.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Love those fuckers. 30 mph speed limit? Better do 45! 55 mph speed limit? Better do 45! You beat me to it, but here it's 42 miles per hour. Cartoonish in a 55, infuriating in a 45, stupid in a 35 and 25, well that's when they're driving down my residential street, which was obviously engineered to be a traffic bypass around that busy intersection.
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veedubfreak posted:The poo poo that is getting really old out here in CO is these assholes hauling dirt/rocks due to all the construction. This is a necessary evil, but I swear to god, half these assholes don't even latch the rear gate on the dumptruck so it's just constantly spewing dirt/rocks onto the road for miles behind it. Which brings me to my next point. Buy a 3m clear bra. 2 years and 23k miles and my front bumper is still pristine, while my windshield already looks like complete poo poo. You know what I love that reminds me of this? Dirt/rock hauling trucks without canvas/tarp tops with a sign on the back saying "NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGE". gently caress you, truck guy. I've been many carlengths behind, it doesn't matter, rocks fly off or bounce and hit windshields from pretty decent distances. Cover your stupid load!
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Code Jockey posted:You know what I love that reminds me of this? Dirt/rock hauling trucks without canvas/tarp tops with a sign on the back saying "NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGE". poo poo falls out even if the load is covered. That's why they say two hundred feet, which is a bit more than a few carlengths.
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opengl128 posted:I've probably posted this before, this happened to me on I-95 a couple years after I started driving. It was in the road and a truck kicked it up spinning into the air and through my windshield. Landed on the passenger seat. Fears about things like this have always influenced my driving habits WRT following distance and avoiding staying behind industrial vehicles and trucks. The lady who restocks our office lunch/coffee room had a tire hit her truck a couple years ago and had to have glass removed from her eyes 
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Das Volk posted:The lady who restocks our office lunch/coffee room had a tire hit her truck a couple years ago and had to have glass removed from her eyes Luckily I closed my eyes right before it hit. I was covered in tiny shards of glass, and I was finding them in the car until I sold it 7 years later.
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