W88fixer

+ Many. Don

Innocuous

I rarely take my C7 out without some knucklehead (usually a kid) in his Challenger, Camaro, Mustang, etc. trying to impress me or challenge me to a race. The worst case unfortunately was another C7. I was cruising in town on a four lane divided street with 40 MPH speed limit, when coming the other direction was another AW C7. He was hauling butt, saw me at the last minute stuck his arm out the window and waved and hit the throttle to give me a blast and he drives over the overpass and out of sight. A couple of minutes later I look in my rear view mirror and there he is. He is doing at least 90, weaving in and out of traffic, barely missing other cars and in general being a dangerous idiot. He pulls up next to me at the light and it was some 20 something amped up kid. Not your typical Vette driver, but one is too many.

F4 Phantom

Roadhogs? WTF are you talking about? I was going 75 in a 65. I was in the left lane because I went around someone going slower. I'm going 10 mph over the speed limit and I'm going to get a ticket for going too slow. Dude, you are totally full of crap!

F4 Phantom

See my previous comment.

CitznFish

Bro, I saw you. I cleared you by 30 feet.

Remember, slower traffic KEEP RIGHT

F4 Phantom

Slower than 140? This isn't the Autobahn.

ersin

Relax. Didn't you see the ROFL smiley he put at the end? This is known as sarcasm.

I'm sorry about your incident but I am really glad that it in the end it turned out ok. It could have been much worse.


Cheers.

F4 Phantom

OK, thanks. Sorry.

Crossed Flags Fan

Was coming home after a "Cars and Coffee" meet early one Sunday morning. Guy in a orange Gallardo at the meet is puffing his chest out with a small crowd around his car. I rolled in with the C7 and the crowd now quickly makes its way to check out my new ride - leaving Mr Big by himself.
I hang around for about 20 minutes soaking in the congrats and then leave.
5 minutes later as I'm accelerating onto the highway the Gallardo idiot flys past me on the right - the shoulder - going at least 80-90 mph. Cuts right in front of me plastering the front of my 1 month old C7 with gravel, dirt, rocks, etc.
Next time we're at the same meet, I'll have a "sharp" little suprise for the orange POS when he's not looking........

Michael A

Sorry to hear this. Nobody said money buys brains or class. That's about as bad as it gets, and deserves this.

I had a similar thing happen to me. I had just bought a new SUV, and some jack@ss passed me on a double yellow, and pelted my new truck with rocks, including chipping the windshield. He's lucky I didn't have a big rock in my truck, because I might have done something to his back window I would not have regretted.

The moral of the story is, you never know when you might need a big pet rock.

Michael

Shifterkartdrvr

Exactly. It isn't the Autobahn.

Alysha

How long is a car link?

HDBADDOG55

First off, I'm very glad you and your wife are OK. But, you should have followed that idiot and gotten his plates, then, called in a report of reckless driving when you got home. You and your wife were very lucky. The next motorist this nut encounters may not be.

wan65

A car link is an estimated guess of distance using your vehicle as a measurement, another words he was about 10 corvettes behind me.
If you want feet or inches, maybe someone on here might know.

Greg00Coupe

People don't seem to understand the left lane is for passing. Does not matter if you are doing 75 in a 35 if there is no one to your right move to the right and free up the left lane. Those who believe they have the gawd given right to own the left lane make it very dangerous for the rest of us as speeders weave back and forth. I can be in the far right lanes, 2, 3 4 lanes over, and some impatient person rolls around me because someone thinks they own the left lanes and are too arrogant to move right.

I was not with the OP but seems both share some responsibility. Anyone who is hogging the passing lane but more serious anyone hammering and passing on the right in twight light one of the most dangeous times to drive.

In many states cruising the left lane is illegal and passing on the right is too........ just never enforced until there is a colision.

dbdave

Must be a TX thing. Mostly referred to as a 'car length'. First I've ever heard of that one.

checkur6

They're EVERYWHERE! Sign of the times and the NEW culture! No skill, no judgement, no maturity, no courtesy and no respect. I've got my toy and anything goes. Damn the other people! ME, ME, ME!

HolyRoller

Only as long as its weakest link.

F4 Phantom

That was one of the larger loads of crap I've ever read. Someone was going 140 and somehow I share responsibility for the situation? I said I was in the left lane. I didn't say for how long. What makes you think I was cruising in the left lane? I had just passed someone going slower and then I passed under a wide bridge. It quickly became dark and my headlights automatically came on. Would you change lanes in the dark under bridge? Also, I live in LA. The freeways have lots of traffic at all hours, including the left lane. You strike me as the type of person who spends a lot of time looking for opportunities to pontificate, making unfounded assumptions, regardless of whether or not you are in command of the facts.

Mfserge

Can't agree more, you share absolutely no responsibility in this situation. This forum is full of know-it-alls who need to shower us with their stupidity daily. It's quite sad the level of intelligence here, people jump to conclusions so quickly and feel no shame about pointing fingers when they have absolutely no facts and no right to do so.