has anyone else had this happen. when i'm driving the vette, people seem to tailgate and pull up real close at red lights and stop signs. one
guy tailgated me for about 3 miles. stopped at a red lite. he pulled alongside me and asked if i had a problem???!!! what's with the tailgating, i said. he called me an a@*h@le!!! i thought i flushed you this morning, i said. what's the deal with these people??if anytihing i'm 10 mph over the limit all the time!


1988 Red metallic
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[Modified by JIMBO7, 7:33 PM 6/6/2002] :) :)


[Modified by JIMBO7, 7:36 PM 6/6/2002]

 

If they're not dragging their feet in front of you, they're crawling up your tailpipes. I'm thinking about keep a box of roofing nails handy for tailgaters. :reddevil

 

Hey man, happens to me all the time. I usually let them come beside me at the next red light, look over at them and smoke the heck out of them. They love to ride on your bumper. Never have figured out why. Somebody said it's an illusion since you are almost sitting over the back wheels but I think different. Everyone wants to mess with a vette. I love to those guys in those Mustang GT's. They think because they have a loud exhaust that their cars are really bad. Have humiliated more than one in my '89. Have always wanted to race a Cobra but have never had the chance. Heard they run really strong. Hell, I'll race anybody that wants to race. I'm way to old to be doing this and I know it, but if it wasn't so much FUN I'd quit. Back to the tailgating. I'm in the opinon they just want to see you turn on. Just humiliate them.

Jack

 

It's definately not an illusion like most people say. I notice this quite frequently. Some sort of "I can keep up with a vette" attitude. Not sure why they get so close during stops either. Maybe they are trying to get a better look at the interior or something.

Probably the same people who will park next to you even though you're 50 spots away from the nearest car.

 

Unfortunately, there just a part of driving a Vette, just remember you can stop a lot quicker then they can. If they get to close, I flash them taillights until they get the hint to back off. :smash:


[Modified by WEGONE, 7:02 PM 6/6/2002]

 

Your right about tailgating, it's no fun when you know how much time, money and love you have put into your vette, and you say to yourself...what is this guy/gal doing...what are they thinking???? And the last thing I always think is "where did they learn to drive that way?

I always leave a lot of space behind the car in front of me at a light. So that I can move forward ever so slightly as the "tailgater" closes in and finally stops inches away! Sometimes, not always, I make the point it this way. The worst at the light seem to be the SUVs and the pickups!

My other observation, is the number of people that place their vehicle way beyond the white line at traffic lights. They actually put the nose of their cars into the intersection. Again "what are they thinking" but I quess that's the point they are not thinking at all !!!

SAVE THE WAVE!!!

 

people just drive like crap in general. does anyone know what a red light is anymore, light turns red be ready for two or three cars to run it . as far as tailgaters goes, i think we can thank nascar for that. these people think they are drafting. the closer they get the slower i go. :cuss :yesnod: :cuss :yesnod: :rolleyes: :yesnod: :cuss :yesnod: :rolleyes: :yesnod: :cuss :yesnod: :rolleyes: :yesnod: :cuss :yesnod: :rolleyes: :yesnod:

 

Make it a point to leave some room around yourself when in traffic unless it is too thick to do so. That way they can pass so they can get off your nerves. If they are too dumb to take whatever gap of room you give them, oh well, let them suffer.

 

It doesn't happen only when I drive the 'vette. Apparently any nice car, these dumbbuttes tend to tailgate. The one that usually ticks me off most is when I'm stopped at the top of a steep hill and the idiot behind pulls a foot from my rear bumper. I just make sure I take my sweet time taking off when they do this. :D

 

LMFAO man. There's something very important you should know man. First of all it's probably true that most of the people out there can't drive for s*** which probably explains alot, but something you and everyone here on this post should be aware of is that alot of these dumbasses are actually trying to collect insurance compensation in an attempt to sue your azz. I dunno bout other states, but what many people don't know is that here in AZ, if you stop at a red light and the guy behind you smacks into your ride cuz he's like mental or something............you are now BOTH liable 50-50 at most but in many cases he can try and blame you for it along with the 10 other people that slammed into him behind you both if somethin like that happens. They can all start to sue you for startin this "domino effect". Also if he's drivin a ricer mobile or a piece of s*** ride.....he can start pretendin like his neck's all busted and raise the anti tryin to collect off doctor bills and s*** even if you're both liable 50-50 and he's insured..........it's a way for his insurance to pay you for your damages while he drains the hell outta yours, ditches the ricer mobile and moves to beverly hills or wherever the hell he thinks he's goin. Anyway, whenever you're in an accident you should NEVER walk "unhurt" if you get the drift. You should never even walk away for that matter if you have to leave to like take a dump for that matter............then crawl :D

 

If its in the city, I usually slow down and let them pas. On the highway, and try to tailgate, you better come strong or dont come at all.:D

 

I drive to fast to be tailgated. :D

 

I hate to tell someone they are incorrect but I think it needs to be said unless AZ is completely different than the rest of the US. After having my father work for an insurance company and my best friend working for one two I have learned that if you are rear ended it is ALWAYS the other persons fault unless you are backing up as they have violated the safe distance clause. You can actually get pulled over for not keeping a safe distance from the person in front of you. Generally it is that you can see the rear tires of the car in front of you or the two second rule.

 

I Ohio you can be cited for failing to maintain "Assured Clear Distance" from the car in front of you. Unless you can prove the car backed into to you you are always at fault.

 

 

Unfortunately people don't realize tailgating is very dangerous. I was in a serious accident because someone was tailgating me. Someone cut in front of the car in front of me... he slammed on his brakes, I hit mine pretty hard, and the guy behind me hit me. This was on the freeway, and he hit me on the right side of the rear, which knocked the rear end around to the right, and I hit the median concrete divider at a 45 degree angle at about 55 MPH. Totalled my first car, a '66 Mustang GT that I had restored. The front end was about two feet shorter. It didn't have shoulder belts, so my head hit and bent the steering wheel. That ripped my forehead open almost from the hairline to my nose so I needed lots of stitches, but otherwise just lots of bumps and bruises. I think I was lucky. If I wasn't wearing the seatbelt I'd likely be dead because those cars don't have collapsible steering columns, so I'd have gotten the steering column through the chest.

So it extremely pisses me off when people tailgate me. I may get shot at someday, but I give 'em hell. I start slowing down gradually, then when they try to go around me I either cut right in front of them and floor it, or just floor it when they get beside me.

 

Ooooooh, oooooh, jealousy. Just had to slam on the brakes the other day. :eek: Some kid in a little pick-up truck saw the face of God. And God said "Thou shalt not follow too closely behind cars with better brakes than you!" :smash: :D I'm a little older, and I have more insurance :cool:

 

Does AZ really have that different of a law from the rest of us? That is scary. In Az it pays to tailgate and that is a bad sign. As far as I know all other states the guy who rearends is at fault. Even if the guy in front is messing around and actually caused it. Trust me I have one of those on my record because of a girl and her boyfriend playying around and me turning my head for 2 seconds. They went then f'ed around and stopped, the 6 people in front of their two cars went but her boyfriend thought it would be funny to slam his breaks and try to make her stop, they did the same thing a week before that and got hit, so my hit totaled theirs and mine. :( Cop told me he knew it was their fault but the law made me have to pay, my insurense said the same thing and even tried to get it to 50-50 but with no luck. My insurance didn't raise though, I have a cool company that knows I wasn't at fault in reality.

 

Here in Silicon Valley it is real bad. Just yesterday in line on the onramp to get onto hwy 101 a Honda is right up my b*tt so close he is leaning over the stering wheel to judge how much closer he can get. We creep up a bit and he is right there again. I finally was creeping with traffic with him on my b*tt and ubruptly hit the brakes. Unless he wanted to hit me h had to slam his brakes with less than a foot of reaction time even at 1-2 mph. He finally cut over in front of the person in the next lane and was riding their b*tt.

Pickups too seem to love to see how close they can get. :rolleyes:

I've sat there at a light and revved the engine allot since the tail pipes are under their bumper, they must like the resonating and fumes in the cab.

 

The other day on the way home from work I had someone riding my a** for a few miles. I came over a crest of a hill and traffic was at a dead stop up ahead. I hit the brakes and looked in my rearview mirror at the guy behind me. He wasn't even looking ahead at were he was going. I made a quick dive to the shoulder and he nailed his brakes and ended up stoped right next to me. Thank god for quick reflexes.