I have driven
A lot. I love to drive, and eventually you find out the limits of your ride, and I like to push ’em.
Coming home last night, I got to this exit
Which is the exit off 80/94 to southbound Bishop Ford. it’s only a couple years old, and it’s clean and last night it was dry. I got off and a guy pulled out of the Lincoln rest area in a Dodge Charger. A pretty one, too, grey with a deep red metalflake top. I don’t know if this is a factory color combo, but it was some pretty. Ohio plates.
Anyway, Charger boy roars up behind me and flashes me and keeps flashing me. It’s a single lane, so it’s not like I can go anywhere. And I’m already exceeding the limit for the exit.
Now, I know this curve and every piece of loose gravel on it. So I floor it, and pretty soon I’m way the hell ahead of Charger boy, and as I arrive at the apex, I am low and inside, and my mirror is almost touching the concrete wall. it can’t be more than two inches away, which at upwards of 70 is damned close.
I do this all the time, so I know what’s up. And before I exited the corner I knew there was virtually no traffic ahead. So I wasn’t driving like a dick.
Anyway, just about the apex, with Charger boy actually beginning to fishtail trying to catch me, so help me God, I rolled down my window and waved him around. When he didn’t comply I shrugged and threw up my hand like “Well, I don’t know what you’re flashing ME for, then”
I love having fun with dumbasses.
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Yep…and charger boy was running a front wheel drive car, so when you saw the fishtail, he was just ounces away from changing ends.
You get rear end loose on a front driver and you can experience direction change in a heart beat.
I like smoking em with a ford focus wagon. The focus engine is pretty strong and with the extra weight aft it really holds the road.
paul; this was a pretty new one, and I think they’re rear wheel drive now. Still!
The new ones are RWD, yes.
Love it when a guy in an old Exploder can show up a moron in a new muscle car. It’s not what you drive, it’s how you drive it.
I always loved killing muscle car driving wannabes with my plain-Jane 1970 Volkswagen Beetle…that just happened to have a Super 90 Porsche engine spinning the tires ;)
If chargers are rear wheel it is at the insistence of the PoPo. It does explain why the are the trooper ride of choice here in the flat lands.
Fucking Ohio drivers. I hate living in Cincinnati. I’d rather drive through Kuwait City. Or Instanbul.
Ohio plates. That’s all you had to say, really.
Dad once told me that, when assigned to a new area, one thing he’d do was every time he went through a curve or turn, if the road was empty, he’d push it; over time he knew how to take pretty much anything in his patrol area as fast as it could be done in that car.
Once said “Some of these people that try to run, their car can outrun me in the straights but once we hit the curves I’m right back up with them.”
Yeah mr charger blew right past me on the straight.
Trying to visualize a top heavy sploder hugging the inside line and a charger not making it happen. My mx mentor used to tell me “races are won in the corners”. True dat.
The charger wouldnt cross the white line. I was all the way in the safety lane. He had half again the distance to travel. Plus he was trying to use power to make up for lack of knowledge of the turn.
Like i said, soon as we were on the straight he passed me like a rocket.
Nice constant radius curve, fun to do it on a bike – even more fun for ChargerBoy if it was a decreasing radius turn. Fishhook meets the road-carp.