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Old Apr 15, 2005 | 11:52 AM
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1) People Driving AMG's like to play.
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2) People driving diesel pickup trucks want to play.....
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The more Bling you add to your rear end-the closer the car behind gets.

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Retards in Dodge Avengers will rev on you and want to do it from a roll on the highway.

What a retard...
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Old women on the way to the 7-11 like to tailgate.
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Retards in Dodge Avengers will rev on you and want to do it from a roll on the highway.

What a retard...
Well.....it is an "Avenger"..........
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garbage trucks have sucky brakes..
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While driving by an elementary school yesterday, I passed 3 groups of kids and most of them waved at me...of course I waved back. That made my day...

And that was just after a couple of guys in a semi riced-out Honda drove up beside me, nodded, and then dropped behind to take some pictures of Red Racer with a camera phone...
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Originally Posted by 84zz4vette
I'll start the list.......feel free to add on.....


1) People Driving AMG's like to play.
Not with me
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Originally Posted by 84zz4vette
I'll start the list.......feel free to add on.....
You get many more "Nice Car" compliments than driving in a BMW, VW, Mercedes, Volvo, Toyota, Nissan, whatever......
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Not with me
Yeah......but you're "different"........
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When you take your 4 yr. old to school in it, he says "Hey, I have an idea, lets blow off school, put the top down and go to the shore to surf!" Then when you get home, he dimes you for the idea to your wife !
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Dudes in Jacked up trucks CAN'T see you
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squirrels cannot safely go under a lowered vette in motion..
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Hey Grumpy,

I thought "kill stories" werent' allowed!
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