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I use brain. Not hip.
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So today I was driving our 2,000 klm. 2023 GT Mustang and all hell broke loose with my wife. Make sure you read the last sentence. We were heading to see her parents. Medium traffic. Sunny dry conditions. Perfect day for some fun on the way. Weather TICK! After a lifetime of fast motorcycles, fast street driving, very fast circuit racing, rally driving and the occasional illegal street drags I still can’t resist a good challenge. Even at my age of 71, I still have very sharp reflexes. So driver alert. TICK. Mustang was NOT in drag mode. Just street mode. So very safe. Full traction control on etc. Pedestrians perfectly safe. TICK! Modern surface, nice wide lanes. TICK. So 4 TICKS: Conditions Driver Car Surface All good. Pulled up at a red light. Beside a Dodge RAM HEMI with a C8 Corvette behind him. All strangers. Now you guys know what I’m thinking right? If you don’t know you shouldn’t be in a car forum. Beat the RAM at this red and take on the C8 at the next red. Beside the beautiful exhaust note, the 10A GT has an incredible Hole-shot - and so far it’s undefeated. Even 1000cc sports bikes don’t stand a chance. Got one? I’m up for it. Superbike rider Zac Simpson can attest to the GT 10A hole-shot. Ask him. Anyhow the light goes green, I plant it. Well actually left foot brake, revs up to 1200 rpm. AND the instant the light goes green I release the brake and plant the foot simultaneously. The launch is spectacular as it always seems to be when I use that method. Now remember, the road was three lanes wide and I was in the middle lane. All good. Perfect. Except for one thing. About a minute earlier a young man pulled up on his Japanese motorcycle. Loud. Beefy. Dirt x Road bike. Screams to a halt. Three meters past the White STOP line. Pulled up just before the third line - the outer Pedestrian Crossing line. It wasn’t the P plate that gave away his lack of experience. It was the fact that AS WELL AS missing the STOP line he also missed pulling up in the correct place in his lane. He was right on the edge of his lane with only a few inches to spare from his handle bars protruding onto the 125mm white line that marked my actual lane. All while he had a whole lane to himself. So possibly trying to intimidate me? Or asking for a race. Or trouble. He got both. The hole-shot was a ripper. I stayed in my lane and actually moved at least a meter to the right to give him heaps of space (because I suspected his plan was to win a hole-shot and then move into my lane but also in case he lost it). Today the GT passed him before the bike moved. Reflexes? Yeah. I still got ‘em. Was I wrong? Because now my wife wants a divorce after 20 years. She thought it was unnecessary. Really spat it. In front of her Mum and Dad (who has cancer galore and not long to go) and have never seen such behaviour before. EVER. She really shocked the family. And me. Could say more but won’t now. Last sentence coming up: She is 53 years old. |
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Oh well, you gunna pay big time for your stupidity.
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Itd be hilarious if she ends up with the mustang in the settlement
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My Mrs would've been impressed!
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a man's got to know his limitations.
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#menopause
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It’s possible you were taken off the breast too early…
Or, maybe, you you deep-seated issues with an older sibling… Ps. Never ask the forum for an opinion. Pss a bloody big bunch of flowers may help. …or a bottle of Dalwhinnie
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And why exactly is it stupid? Poor interpersonal Management or the actual driving?
She was accustomed to his style of driving, before the sudden outburst. Speaking from equivalent experience and in a Mustang GT ?
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When I was towing I saw first hand where situations like this went wrong, 1 was a Commodore driver who thought he was quite capable of handling his machine, he probably was more than up to the task, but the failure of the Commodores mechanicals caused the car to veer off and run over a 9 year old boy on a scooter.
Pull your pants up to under your nipples and act your age, its not just you that uses the streets to commute, and they sure don't need you to speed up the end of life process for them. There are specific places where you can get your jolly's, and your wife may even be impressed when you beat someone legally, at 71 you would think you would know better. |
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Well, that’s half the story. How did you go against the Corvette?
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I think there was no repeat of driver conduct after a few choice words from the navigators seat.
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Not something to end a marriage over. Hate to say it, but there's probably another bloke lurking in the background, and this provided the excuse.
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It’s Ford forums not heartbalm..
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My wife would be waving to them in the distance.
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This thread looks AI generated
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Best practice is do your hooning when the Mrs is not in the car maybe?
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I use brain. Not hip.
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Walt, she was a real peach.
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She has no problem with me doing hard launches. This time the proximity of the motorcyclist what is the problem and she thought I was too aggressive. She thought I was in endangering him. I don’t think I was. After thousands of hours door to door racing I don’t think his safety was in jeopardy. I just backed myself. And the 10A Mustang. I also wanted to let him know that his skills as a motorcyclist and the speed of his motorcycle is not what he thought it was. Funny, but it reminds me of an incident at Wakefield some years ago. During the first practice session, a guy in a Factory twin turbo Porsche 911 tried to intimidate me. In practice session two I lined him up and passed him @ 211 km/h at Turn one on the inside of what he thought was the right line. Less than one inch to spare. He stayed out of my way the rest of the weekend. In a way, that’s what I was trying to teach this young fella, not to pull up at lights and try to intimidate fast cars. If he reflects he will not try it again. If he doesnt he’s a T.A. |
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Can i have your wifes phone number? Just want to get early offers in for a mustang GT shes's selling as part of a divorce settlement
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yer Walt, I'm all for having a go but its a time and place.
My wife has never condonned that kind of behaviour and I got it for all it did was cause unneccessary angst and most times she was right and consider the precious cargo in my car as well as the surroundings. There must be other underlying issues triggering your relationship but not my business. Hope you sort it out and yourself best of luck.
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Been watching those too Rok, those Arkansas Troopers don't **** about...just wait til they get their hands on that blacked-out Charger that keeps "going dark" at night.
First one I ever watched was Trooper Byrd running down a (different) black Charger, and watching them maxed out at 150m/h at night was something else |
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Love to watch the GPS speed in the LH corner.
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