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Old 10-31-2015, 06:37 PM   #1
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Is it just me or does this happen to you too

When driving on local streets (not aggressive), two lanes each direction, stop lights every couple of blocks, and the traffic in my lane moves faster than the other lane and I happen to pass a Challenger (doesn't matter which model V6 SXT or SRT), the driver in the Challenger starts aggressively driving (in/out of lanes) just so (as it seems to me) he can accelerate at a high speed and pass me.

This scenario has happened to me at least 5x in the last month and I do not understand what these guys are thinking - are they going home and telling their friends that they blew by a ZL1 today (as I didn't know we were racing and the traffic on the road would have made it an unwise choice)

I don't get this attention with any other make/model on the road - you guys experience this too?
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Old 10-31-2015, 06:43 PM   #2
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usually guys in minivans or camrys
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Old 10-31-2015, 06:55 PM   #3
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usually guys in minivans or camrys


Minivans are the worst.
Wife starts drooling and comments on my car to her hubby. Now he's gotta go machismo on me, gonna show her why it won mini-turd of the year for 2005 and still rules the mean streets.

Pickups too. Obviously 3 tons of of streamlined rocket ship.
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Old 10-31-2015, 07:04 PM   #4
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I get Hondas and Pick up trucks always wanting to race me in my ZL1. Sometimes I unleash the Beast on them.



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Old 10-31-2015, 07:11 PM   #5
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Well, don't get too cocky. You might happen to run across a Hellcat. I think Chrysler is increasing production on those bad boys.��
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Old 10-31-2015, 07:15 PM   #6
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I get Hondas and Pick up trucks always wanting to race me in my ZL1. Sometimes I unleash the Beast on them.


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+1 Mostly ricers and Hillbilly Bobs in their lifted pickups trying to mess with me.
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Old 10-31-2015, 07:28 PM   #7
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I can't believe anyone gets suckered into something like that, if they get you into playing their game I bet most of them are laughing at the moron that thinks he has to prove something by outrunning a little ole minivan or pickup. Just keep your cool and dont fall into the trap. You don't really win.
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Old 10-31-2015, 07:39 PM   #8
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Old 10-31-2015, 07:39 PM   #9
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Watch out for pickups. Never know what is under the hood. Mine has some get up and go




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Old 10-31-2015, 07:44 PM   #10
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Yes it happens to me as well. Corvette or Camaro drivers just nod at me. Challenger guys always want to race. My wife didn't believe me and thought that I instigated the situations. But when I took her CTS for service and left her the SS, she said she had someone in a Challenger pulled up next to her at a traffic light and wanted to race.
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Old 10-31-2015, 07:47 PM   #11
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I'm not sure racing is even the right word maybe we should just call it having a little fun with the car next to us.


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Old 10-31-2015, 07:48 PM   #12
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Old 10-31-2015, 07:59 PM   #13
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Yep. But usually some boob in a Chevy pickup.
I've had other car owners as well.
Some guy in a diesel Chevy 4x4 tried to keep me from passing him a week or so back up this mountain road. I just sped up until I went by him, (the wife was with me). He stayed right behind me but was afraid to try to pass.
The funniest race for me was, before I got this Camaro I used to drive my wife's Escape to pick up the Grandson.
Coming home one evening, some guy tried to pass us in a No Passing Zone. He ended up cutting back in close in front of us.
Kinda made me mad, so...........
When we got to a passing zone up the mountain, I cut out and just blowed him away!! Man, did that embarrass him!!
Those Escapes, they run REALLY good.
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Old 10-31-2015, 08:05 PM   #14
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usually guys in minivans or camrys

Forgot one VW golfs. Pretty funny


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