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Old 18-06-2008, 04:09 PM   #1
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a funny thing happened on the way home from work this arvo. as i was travelling home to cleveland this arvo , a knob in a new ss commonwhore ute was doing his peter brock impersonation, weaving in and out of traffic, at high speed in very greasy conditions. eventually i pulled up behind him in the left hand lane on a dual lane stretch of road that merges into one lane 50 meters further on. next to him was a young bird [about 20] in a new corolla. when the lights turn green he tromps it and goes nowhere [pulling 5 grand at least and wheels spinning].the bird takes off, quite sharply, no wheelspin and she's gone. barry bogan is still tromping it and still not going anywhere so i decide to go around him [in an 86 nissan pintara, bog stock, my going to the tip car]. as i pass him, i give a toot and a wave but i don't think he saw me because he didn't wave back. he finally works out that if he decreases his revs his car will actually go forwards not sideways but by this time it's to late. the chick in the corolla and the old guy in the pintara have left the party and are happily on their way home. he did catch up to me but stayed back a bit [snob if you ask me, i did wave].
thank god for holdens, it keeps the knobs out of fords.

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Old 18-06-2008, 04:11 PM   #2
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Old 18-06-2008, 04:18 PM   #3
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hmmm.. must have been a genius to figure that if he stoped revving it, the car would actually move!
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Old 18-06-2008, 04:32 PM   #4
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New SS ute? I'd say he was being a knob deliberately then, dont they have TC?
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Old 19-06-2008, 05:08 PM   #5
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New SS ute? I'd say he was being a knob deliberately then, dont they have TC?
i doubt tc would make that much of a difference with greasy roads + high revs + standard rims and tyres + and a low IQ. there's no excuse, the guy was a knob who just couldn't drive. when i passed him he was staring at his dash and looked totally confused. cheers.
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Old 19-06-2008, 07:35 PM   #6
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hahahaha! This happens to me all the time when im in the XR8!, had some chick in an 86 rolla with HDT stickers try to drag me in the cbd once!, was so funny lol!!
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Old 20-06-2008, 07:44 PM   #7
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: The trouble is they let these inexperienced drive a driver's car ( HOT ) and have no experience at all. It is a wonder he wasn't looking to heaven when his car didn't move off. Hey, I saw a bloke the other day wearing a T shirt that said he was the STIG.:
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Hey, I saw a bloke the other day wearing a T shirt that said he was the STIG.:

maybe he was....
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Old 20-06-2008, 09:02 PM   #9
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: The trouble is they let these inexperienced drive a driver's car ( HOT ) and have no experience at all. It is a wonder he wasn't looking to heaven when his car didn't move off. Hey, I saw a bloke the other day wearing a T shirt that said he was the STIG.:
Experience is not everything, as your post seems to suggest. As far as we know, he could have been driving for many, many years and driven many, many cars.
There are people who have been driving for a long time, and they still don't know some of the basic rules, and lack courtesy on the road.

A lot of the P-Platers that get wiped out are the ones acting like tools and not understanding the limits of their vehicles.
There are many "inexperienced" drivers who drive safely and know how to use their car properly.
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