We really don't have younger guys in modded cars around here anymore.
Everyone's POS dodge ram is making eleventy billion hp and even more black smoke and running the quarter in 10 flat because of the monster energy and yeti cooler stickers.
The douchebags have abandoned their cobalts at last it seems.
I'm continually amazed how often some guy in full sized pickup feels the need to blow by my MINI Cooper. It's normal for it to happen after the double left turn lanes on a local boulevard. I can take the inner lane quickly and then expect the pickup to blow by and then slow back down to the speed limit once they're ahead. It's silly, but happens anyway.
Heck, even track days have his phenomenon. "Hey, look how my car blows away C6 vettes!". Um yeah. It was one guy, it's HPDE2, and the other guy is very careful on track. Let's see you take a C6 in time trials against an experienced driver.
Huckleberry wrote: I lapped his ass!
Wow, that escalated quickly!
joey48442 wrote: I think the name "Colton" should have tipped you off he was a piece of E36 M3. *apologies to any Coltons on this forum (editted)
Who names their kid "Colton"? Seriously. And what is it with all these weird, new names? Especially for boys. I hate to say there's a double standard, but there is. There's a lot of pretty girl's names out there, some old, some newer, some trendy, but there's only a very few names a boy can have and not either be teased relentlessly or turn into an utter douchenozzle (like our friend Colton here).
Look at it this way: let's say you're about to go to the bar. And you're going to meet a buddy there. Insert the name in question into the following sentence:
"I'm gonna go meet name at the bar and have a few beers."
If the sentence just made you smirk, or if it sounds like "beers" out to be changed to "strawberry daiquiris" or "wine coolers" or "forties", then that is not an acceptable boy name.
/rantmode = off
Too much traffic here for street racing. When there's less traffic, there's speed cameras. When there's no speed cameras, there's cops. I guess, when I was growing up in S. Florida there was some of that nonsense, but as I recall, most of my friends saved it for the track. Maybe we were just responsible. Maybe my memory is faulty.
The shop truck where I worked in the mid 80's was a Suzuki SJ410. I raced everybody from every light. I doubt anyone ever knew I was racing them, and I still lost most of the time.
This is why i took the turbo badges off my sundance. Those badges gave every fart cannon equiped car in town a boner.
I often get someone trying to outrun me when driving the FX16. It emits a nice raspy sound. So when I go up hill (I live in the NC mountains) the pitch changes (gets louder) as I try to make it up and over the top. When other drivers hear that change in pitch, they punch it. It's a hoot to watch!
volvoclearinghouse wrote:joey48442 wrote: I think the name "Colton" should have tipped you off he was a piece of E36 M3. *apologies to any Coltons on this forum (editted)Who names their kid "Colton"? Seriously. And what is it with all these weird, new names? Especially for boys. I hate to say there's a double standard, but there is. There's a lot of pretty girl's names out there, some old, some newer, some trendy, but there's only a very few names a boy can have and not either be teased relentlessly or turn into an utter douchenozzle (like our friend Colton here). Look at it this way: let's say you're about to go to the bar. And you're going to meet a buddy there. Insert the name in question into the following sentence: "I'm gonna go meet *name* at the bar and have a few beers." If the sentence just made you smirk, or if it sounds like "beers" out to be changed to "strawberry daiquiris" or "wine coolers" or "forties", then that is not an acceptable boy name. /rantmode = off
If I ever have a child, I will remember the VCH Method Of Child Naming. AS a sidenote, he has since graduated from a Cobalt to a Jeep Wrangler. With LED lightbars out the wazoo. And a giant American flag graphic down both sides. And I don't think it ever goes offroad.
What is it with Cobalts? They are the only car that consistently tries to race me at stop lights.
I like to rev my engine and then leave the line at barely over idle.
I was sitting at a traffic light one night in my E36 M3 when a crappy mid-90's Buick Regal pulled alongside of me. The light changed, and I pulled away at a normal clip. The guy in the Regal floored it....and I let him go past, without increasing my speed.
We get to the next light, and he yells at me "Your car is slow!" I said "Yes....especially when I'm not racing" He then sped away again......off to make another "kill".
I wonder if he added an M3 sticker to his car's flanks.......like WWII airplanes used to do to signify vanquished enemies. 
gearheadE30 wrote: In reply to chuckles: That's how I was too. I knew just about everything was faster than my 318, but if you rolled up in something that I had reason to believe was fast, then I wanted (and if I'm being honest, still want) to see and hear a little of what it can do.
My old 318ti used to attract all the wrong sort of attention due to being lowered, on m3 rims, and had the most technic package. Everybody wanted to race all if it's glorious 138hp.
It could, however, out handle most of the racers. Including a kid in a wrx who tried to match my speed on an on ramp. I think there is still blue paint on the jersey barrier
My ZX2SR was faster than a 911.
I have proof. A picture passing one on the front straight at Lime Rock.
No one tries to race my Fiesta. Maybe they think it is one of then souped up turbo charged 4 wheel drive monsters. Then maybe they already know it is slow.
I'd bet Fogger Jr. named his kid Colton.
In reply to Joe Gearin:
Careful of those Regals...some of them had the venerable 3800 V6. They can be real "giant slayers"!
Based on the story, though, I'm guessing this one had an Iron Duke. 
Appleseed wrote: I'd bet Fogger Jr. named his kid Colton.
Colton Fogger III?
I somehow missed the Fogger Jr. story and have only heard references. Anyone care to give me the condensed version?
Joe Gearin wrote: I wonder if he added an M3 sticker to his car's flanks.......like WWII airplanes used to do to signify vanquished enemies.
For some reason, this is what I think of whenever I see the stupid stick figure families on the back of mini vans and CUVs...Look at me everyone, I murdered my whole family!
I'll admit to engaging in such juvenile behavior described in this thread from time to time. I had an n/a 5 speed Volvo 850 in high school that had the exhaust completely rust off behind the cat at one point, so it was obnoxiously loud and not particularly fast at all. Great for trolling faster cars, just to see what they could do, knowing full well I'd get my ass handed to me.
Yeah, Im a big fan of the "rev to the moon just before the light is about to change, then roll away from the stop at a normal pace" maneuver. Its hilarious to see the clapped out golf kids fly away from the light, leaving a trail of rusted debris in their wake.
DeadSkunk wrote: I'm continually amazed how often some guy in full sized pickup feels the need to blow by my MINI Cooper. It's normal for it to happen after the double left turn lanes on a local boulevard. I can take the inner lane quickly and then expect the pickup to blow by and then slow back down to the speed limit once they're ahead. It's silly, but happens anyway.
Odd, I get the exact same reaction when driving my MINI. It's almost always guys in trucks too. They seem to have adverse reactions to MINIs.
This week I've been driving my dad's BMW as I needed more room than normal. It gets a totally different reaction to drivers. No one seems to feel the need to race it (except some jerk in a beat up old Buick this morning), but cutting it off is a different story. I've never been cut off as much in my life as I have in this car. It brings out the hate in people evidently. On a different note, I've also never had as many women check me out when I park as I've had in this car. 
That never happens in the MINI or Miata.
Will wrote: I think I'll get stickers of the thread title made...
I'm shocked ppl still street light race... I haven't had that happen to me I since 2005, when a dude TEST DRIVING a new SRT4 rolled along side me, in my RB powered s13. I layed on the gas and never saw him again, but as I flew by I saw the salesman screaming at the kid. Hilarious.
Any time this happened in my RX8 I've always proceeded it with "you are about to be very disappointed" and they proceed to pull many lengths lol.
Some reason people think its fast.
iceracer wrote: No one tries to race my Fiesta. Maybe they think it is one of then souped up turbo charged 4 wheel drive monsters. Then maybe they already know it is slow.
Schrodinger's Shogun?
I took college courses before school when I was in HS. I made a doughnut run and was doing 70 on a divided 4 lane back to school. Kid in a 12a RX7 pulled out in front of me and laid on it. Once he was up to about 100, he passed a cop and got popped. He was crying and told the cop he was racing me and I lost my parking permit. Thanks, a-hole.
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