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Aug 10, 2019 | 07:06 PM

Apocolips

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People be crazy!

So, I’m in a small caravan, (I was the only Corvette), traveling along Route 66 just east of Albuquerque heading west. The traffic was moderate to heavy. I noticed in my rear view mirror a Cadillac closing fast and weaving through traffic cutting others off. He pulls up parallel to me in the passing lane and clearly wants to prove his stones are larger than anyone on the road. It was one of those Caddies with a LT1 or something. I just continued following my caravan at about 5 over the speed limit. Anyway, the entire time his exhaust was popping and crackling in a very strange way. He finally got tired of me not playing his game and floored it. While he was accelerating the exhaust continued to pop and make strange sounds. What was up with those sounds? Were they normal for that car?

Aug 10, 2019 | 07:34 PM

kenw

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Rev limiter will cause that.

Aug 10, 2019 | 07:51 PM

dvilin

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Depends on what exhaust he had on the car obviously it sounds like it was definitely an aftermarket system.

Aug 10, 2019 | 07:52 PM

w0rM

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Sounds like a real douche bag

Aug 10, 2019 | 10:47 PM

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Sounds like he was an idiot just waiting to get caught by the police.

Aug 12, 2019 | 10:20 AM

DWillys

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There's a little known feature to Caddys. If the driver is driving like an ahole that is the announcer letting everyone know.

Aug 12, 2019 | 12:45 PM

BostonVette

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Sounds

The sounds that your hearing are those of an idiot.

Aug 12, 2019 | 01:19 PM

Red86Cfour

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Or could have had an air leak.

I'm surprised it wasn't a charger. I get them wanting to race almost every day.

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Aug 12, 2019 | 01:23 PM

Z06_Ruff

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Sounds like your typical Ricer. Probably was a V6.

Aug 12, 2019 | 01:59 PM

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rudolph schenker

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Originally Posted by Vetteman Jack

Sounds like he was an idiot just waiting to get caught by the police.

Aug 12, 2019 | 05:32 PM

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Corpsvette

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He is probably posting and bragging on a Caddy forum how he took down a Corvette.

Aug 13, 2019 | 04:44 PM

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bbrown450

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2016 and up if it was a CTS-V was the LT-4 ... very potent and capable car...unfortunately driven by an idiot. If it was a smaller Caddie it had the LF4 V6 TT 464 HP, still pretty potent at 0-60 in 3.7. In 2016 they put it up against a BMW M3 and Merc. C63-s and it was quicker. So neither cars are a slouch ...

Aug 13, 2019 | 09:22 PM

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Zjoe6

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Probably a CTS-V with an after market exhaust. Good thing he was in a Cadillac and not making vettes look bad.

Aug 13, 2019 | 10:13 PM

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VetteDrmr

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This is hilarious!

I had something *very* similar happen to me here in Hot Springs! A white CTS coupe came roaring up behind me, pulling up beside me in the passing lane. Surging forward, dropping back, again and again. Finally he got tired of me not taking his bait, and he floored it and buzzed off. On the back of the CTS was the emblem "3.6".

SMH.

Have a good one,
Mike

Aug 13, 2019 | 10:58 PM

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jimmbbo

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An SUV chased me down the twisties on I15 between Utah and Las Vegas... He'd move up behind me and I'd lose him like a bad habit, repeated three or four times. As we got to the flatlands he was about a half mile behind, and really stood on it to zoom past me, saluting me with a single finger, likely doing over 100 mph... Guess he didn't see the black SUV parked in the median between the north and southbound lanes... A couple of miles down the road I honked the horn a couple of times as the Highway Patrolman was walking to his car...