Dear Camaro people ...

"Darkbrador" (darkbrador)
08/13/2020 at 13:30 • Filed to: None

Don’t race other cars on the freeway :

- it’s dangerous

- it’s stupid

- I’m not interested

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Best,

Darkbrador

DISCUSSION (23)

For Sweden > Darkbrador
08/13/2020 at 13:40

Did a hall monitor write this

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > For Sweden
08/13/2020 at 13:41

Freeway Monitor

stuckMTB > Darkbrador
08/13/2020 at 13:44

Around here its typically Challenger/Charger bros, and the occasional Mustang with its exhaust hacked off .

way2blu does a rev update > Darkbrador
08/13/2020 at 13:47

People who try to instigate street races make any reasonable “car people” look bad by association. I feel your pain; I can barely go two exits on the freeway without someone trying to get me to go faster. I take my car to autocross and keep things within legal limits on the streets, but people still get the wrong idea. Facepalms for sure.

Signed,

a Camaro Person

ranwhenparked > Darkbrador
08/13/2020 at 13:48

My favorite is when people try to race me, without any indication at all of interest o n my part. You know, rev their engine a bunch of times, yell out the window that they want to race, and then smoke the tires and take off, in the meantime I’m just going about my business. A one man drag race on a public road somehow makes you look like an even bigger jackass than one with two people. I’m 35 years old, in a V6 RS, nothing about that should make me look at all like someone interested in racing anybody at any time, but it has happened surprisingly often, usually with people young enough to be my son, if I had made bad choices in high school.

Darkbrador > stuckMTB
08/13/2020 at 13:49

I’ve had the occasional Golf R, too. These guys seem to have a big chip on their shoulder ...

OPPOsaurus WRX > ranwhenparked
08/13/2020 at 13:53

i had a kid who wanted to race at a redlight, he was in an RX300 and I in an explorer. When the light turned green, I stabbed the gas just to give the impression that I was in, but he went full in and was promptly pulled over by the unmarked cop directly behind him.

For Sweden > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
08/13/2020 at 13:54

Nooo you can’t go fast it’s bad!

Sovande > Darkbrador
08/13/2020 at 13:59

I have raced one Camaro in my life. It was orange. It also lost to a 1998 Volvo V70. Rear facing seat and everything. I don’t think he was ready for a family mobile to drop it into 3rd and hammer it on the highway.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Darkbrador
08/13/2020 at 14:01

I am undefeated in street races against people who don’t know that we’re racing.

Yours Truly,

A Camaro People

MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick) > way2blu does a rev update
08/13/2020 at 14:02

I get this, and I think the exception is trying to get something cool to wind it out. If I pull up beside a GT3RS and start doing little pulls it’s not because I want to race, it’s because I want to hear their car! That being said I’m sure lots of other people genuinely do want to race so I don’t take any ill will towards their disdain

MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick) > OPPOsaurus WRX
08/13/2020 at 14:05

This, in my old Ions I would just launch it because it was such a shitty car, and then ease off around 40 km/h. It’s a nice combo of ‘I’m not racing you’ and ‘you almost had me’

MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick) > Darkbrador
08/13/2020 at 14:06

Near me it’s the pickup truck left lane bandits. We’re going do 110km/h in the left lane, but as soon as someone pops out of the line of cars behind them to undertake suddenly we’re doing 150km/h.

I have to wind out third just to get around them, and then they settle back to 110 once you’ve undertaken them and they tailgated you for a bit. Drives me insane.

Darkbrador > For Sweden
08/13/2020 at 14:08

I’m a disciple of the ancient “you do you” philosophy. You want to drive fast, best luck to you.

Now, driving erraticall y on the freeway and try to get others to race, just because they have a fast car, that’s moronesque .

But hey, you do do you, man, go do your stunts on open roads while I mind my own business.

ranwhenparked > OPPOsaurus WRX
08/13/2020 at 14:38

That’s about the only way they’ll learn.

Well, that, or being unlucky enough to challenge someone like Robert Durst or something, but a ticket is safer

MM54 > Darkbrador
08/13/2020 at 14:48

Some kid in a 90s honda tried to race me in the Chevelle once, was stopped at a light on a 55mph stretch of road. He sat there staring at me revving the crap out of his fart-cannon-exhaust’ed car, so I amused him with one good rev. T he light turned green, he tears off with earsplitting flatulence, and I turned left. I guess he didn’t see my signal.

fintail > Darkbrador
08/13/2020 at 14:49

Ba ck when I had the E55, it was always Subarus and Audis who wanted to race . But that was before the super high end Camaros were really a thing.

I don’t mind having an under the radar car.

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > Darkbrador
08/13/2020 at 15:24

All VW drivers hold in a lot of resentment and anger, only for it to be unleashed upon the roads.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > For Sweden
08/13/2020 at 15:32

Bad for you maybe but I gotta go fast.

gettingoldercarguy > fintail
08/13/2020 at 16:39

When I picked up my parents from the airporta few weeks ago I had a scat pack, two 2015+ wrxs and a c63 try to get me to race on the way up to SeaTac. I just had my cruise control set to 63 and enjoyed the drive.

It takes all kinds

fintail > gettingoldercarguy
08/13/2020 at 17:58

It was always in town for me, people ignored the car on the highway. Those you mention seem to be prime offenders of the highway racing scene here.

Funny, as the current car still has a sub 5 second 0-60 etc, but is ignored, fine with me.

TrickJos > Darkbrador
08/13/2020 at 19:51

This is just a general problem, not a Camaro problem.

gettingoldercarguy > fintail
08/13/2020 at 20:31

I’m continually amazed at how fast new cars are from the factory