Challenged by Pickup Trucks?!?!
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Challenged by Pickup Trucks?!?!
I have read on here before that some get challenged on the road by Mustangs and other type Sports Cars but I must say that almost exclusively I get challenged ALL the time by guys in Pickup Trucks...WTF?!?!? I’m living in the DFW area and its like an epidemic, on red lights, while cruising on the Highway and I’m shaking my head every time and never engage since its ridiculous to me and I just don’t get these Idiots!
Anybody else experiencing this?
Anybody else experiencing this?
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Too funny. I live in DFW, and I've had the same thing happen more than once. I figure they just want me to hit it so they can enjoy the sound (and seeing the c7 rear!) 
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I have read on here before that some get challenged on the road by Mustangs and other type Sports Cars but I must say that almost exclusively I get challenged ALL the time by guys in Pickup Trucks...WTF?!?!? I’m living in the DFW area and its like an epidemic, on red lights, while cruising on the Highway and I’m shaking my head every time and never engage since its ridiculous to me and I just don’t get these Idiots!
Anybody else experiencing this?
Anybody else experiencing this?
Not just DFW... it's all over Texas... Dodges and the really burly trucks are the worst.... happens all the time - had my C7 since December '14.
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Yes! It was unbelievable. I was picking up my 5 year old daughter from school and we got on the highway to go home.I was driving my 2004 magnetic red C5 vert. I heard this loud pickup truck behind me. It was an old junk like 1970 dodge that sounded like its mufflers were gone.The truck was beat but maybe the kid had done some work on the engine. He kept racing his motor and would back off and then charge at me and ride my rear end. He was dying to tell his friends he took on a vette. I had my kid with me and it prevented me from blowing his doors in. He finally pulled up next to me and floored it and I watched him disappear in a cloud of his oily exhaust smoke.
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Yes! It was unbelievable. I was picking up my 5 year old daughter from school and we got on the highway to go home.I was driving my 2004 magnetic red C5 vert. I heard this loud pickup truck behind me. It was an old junk like 1970 dodge that sounded like its mufflers were gone.The truck was beat but maybe the kid had done some work on the engine. He kept racing his motor and would back off and then charge at me and ride my rear end. He was dying to tell his friends he took on a vette. I had my kid with me and it prevented me from blowing his doors in. He finally pulled up next to me and floored it and I watched him disappear in a cloud of his oily exhaust smoke.
And sure he posted about smoking you. (Just not the kind of smoking he really did!)
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Have a friend with a 7 bay shop that puts propane injection in diesel pick-ups! Be careful as they can produce equivalent to a 70+ psi turbocharger boost! Fast as heck and a diesel bottom end can handle the power-for a while!
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I had a similar experience at a gas station recently. Guy in a work pickup truck with a buddie of his was asking me if I wanted to “run um”. I took that as slang for race them. I just joked that I’d better not cause I did know what they had hidden under their hood.
The vette seems to raise the speed limit for those around it for sure, but the worst is when people ask me what I paid for it. I’m an extreme introvert. Confrontations with random people drive me nuts. But the car is worth it, once I’m on the inside.
The vette seems to raise the speed limit for those around it for sure, but the worst is when people ask me what I paid for it. I’m an extreme introvert. Confrontations with random people drive me nuts. But the car is worth it, once I’m on the inside.
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My 7-ton Ford E450, 7.3 Powerstroke diesel with 4.10 rearend RV, will take most anything across the intersection.
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In which case, whoop em with that walker!
I broke my foot several years ago and for months couldn't even drive.
Then I had a handicapped tag as I had to walk very slowly and carefully, so long distances in from lots was not a good idea at all. One evening, I went in a Braum's and some old busybody grabbed a cop who was also in the restaurant and complained about me using a handicapped spot. People are seriously crazy!
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No - haven't been challenged by another vehicle in a long time. Good choice to just ignore them.
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I get rundown by soccer moms in SUV's more than anything else here in Northern Virginia. They aren't even trying to race me,, that's just them driving as they always do around here...
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They put loud exhaust on the pickups and it is still slower than a four door sedan. Chump in a challenger revved and my Camaro yesterday. He slowed down when he hit 95 mph. I didn't slow down. Another chump in a charger revved at my Corvette and swerved towards me the day before while I was at a light when he passed me. I was about to chase him down but I didn't have a safe opening. Later on in the day I was glad I didn't chase him down.