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10-03-2005, 04:29 PM
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Most embarrasing driving moment
Not sure if this is a good idea to start a thread, but I'll start with mine.
Almost three years ago, in my previous Impreza Turbo, driving from petrol station about 2 miles from my home. Get to roundabout and this little white car was beginning to noise me up. "Just a standard little white car" I though, hmmm...
Well, going round the roundabout, he was being a real pain in the ***, so I go to overtake him on the straight. red-lining 3rd gear, doing ***mph (not very fast officer), 7000rpm.. I'm flying, well so I thought.
I'm quite enjoying myself, good music on (pretty loud) Well, thats when my fun stops.
Stick my car into 4th gear, get side by side with him and all I can hear is this noise, like thunder, coming from his puny little white car (bearing in mind that my car was not very quiet doing ***mph in 3rd gear, and with the music pretty loud, I was thinking WTF? )
All of a sudden, he begins to disappear from my sight, to be honest , I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
I quitely and calmly pull in from trying to overtake (no point in trying anymore), and decide to slow down a bit and try and hide my shame.
"How can this be? I spend like £20k+ on a pretty fast car, my wheels were probably worth more than his car", I though..
I found out later from someone who knows this guy, that the Vauxhall Corsa this dude was driving (very basic looking, didn't even have alloy wheels or even a spoiler) had a 2ltr Vauxhall Calibra Turbo engine in it, with lots and lots and lots of mods done to the engine, he is a specialist tuner or something...
It was embarrasing, but always brings a smile to my mates faces, and mine, when I mention it.
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10-03-2005, 07:41 PM
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HAH, that's gotta suck.
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10-04-2005, 07:50 PM
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not realy embarrasing, just kinda sitting at a red light waiting to make my red light when there werent any cars coming for a long time.
i felt toasty but i dont think the guy behiend me noticed.
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10-04-2005, 08:05 PM
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not realy embarrasing, just kinda sitting at a red light waiting to make my red light when there werent any cars coming for a long time.
i felt toasty but i dont think the guy behiend me noticed.
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10-04-2005, 08:56 PM
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first time i was behind the wheel of my dad's car (first time driving) i pulled out from in front of my house, no problem, then he told me to pull into the alleyway, a simple right turn, well, i didn't realise how much effort it took to turn the car (no power steering) so i only turned about 45 degrees, but fortunately, there was a driveway, but i panicked, and tried to hit the brakes, missed, and hit the gas again, and almost launched myself into my neighbor's garage door took me a few seconds after i had stopped to regain my senses and let my foot move from the brake :P
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10-04-2005, 09:44 PM
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waiting at red light to make my right turn dunno what i was thinking when i wrote that
anyway youre one to talk man, nobody understands you.
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10-05-2005, 01:30 AM
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my most embarrassing moment...
for those of you that dont know I have an H-22 swapped accord, a few of you have seen pictures, anyways, I was going down at around 40mph (im not a ***** ill say how fast i was going) when i catch up to this 97 civic, primer gray. Well, im thinking to myself, ok this ricer with his piece of **** car and fart cannon wants to race and get his *** kicked (he revved) so we take off at 40 and i guess he was toying with me cause at 70 he ****** took off and raped me. We pulled over a little farther up the road and i found out he had gutted the interior and had a Turbo B-16 engine swap
Now, on the other side of embarrassment, I was going down Barratt PKWY (hawk you know what im talking about) when this shitty blue civic pulls up to me and shoots his NOS off at me, well, i was in a good mood and it sounded like **** so we both took off and I destroyed him until he hit his nitrous, as he was slowly passing me (maybe 5mph difference) a flame shot out straight up threw his hood followed by a blast of white gas, he had blown a piston clear through the head and hood of his car haha, the dumbass had broken off the top of his NOS bottle so it dumped the entire contents of the tank into his engine in liquid form haha DUMBASS
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10-05-2005, 02:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Photoshopped
my most embarrassing moment...
for those of you that dont know I have an H-22 swapped accord, a few of you have seen pictures, anyways, I was going down at around 40mph (im not a ***** ill say how fast i was going) when i catch up to this 97 civic, primer gray. Well, im thinking to myself, ok this ricer with his piece of **** car and fart cannon wants to race and get his *** kicked (he revved) so we take off at 40 and i guess he was toying with me cause at 70 he ****** took off and raped me. We pulled over a little farther up the road and i found out he had gutted the interior and had a Turbo B-16 engine swap
Now, on the other side of embarrassment, I was going down Barratt PKWY (hawk you know what im talking about) when this shitty blue civic pulls up to me and shoots his NOS off at me, well, i was in a good mood and it sounded like **** so we both took off and I destroyed him until he hit his nitrous, as he was slowly passing me (maybe 5mph difference) a flame shot out straight up threw his hood followed by a blast of white gas, he had blown a piston clear through the head and hood of his car haha, the dumbass had broken off the top of his NOS bottle so it dumped the entire contents of the tank into his engine in liquid form haha DUMBASS
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lol, it's the innocent looking motors that you have to watch out for...
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10-05-2005, 05:19 AM
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I always day dream at 4 way stops,,,, just sitting there. lol
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10-05-2005, 05:56 AM
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First time driving was my Dad's truck when I was 14. I started driving and froze not knowing how to stop the truck. So I just threw it into park. Click click click click goes the tranny. Truck was ok, but wow was I embarassed.
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10-05-2005, 07:51 AM
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Well, a while ago, when my dad first taught me how to drive, I had been acting a little cocky, about how I'd be so good of a driver. We swap positions, I'm in the drivers seat...Seatbelt on, mirrors checked, engine started, a/c adjusted. I was ready to go. I hit the gas and it just revs the engine. (I was still in Park!). Emberessing, haha.
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10-05-2005, 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Photoshopped
I was going down Barratt PKWY (hawk you know what im talking about)
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YEEEAAAAH BOI!! WHA WHATT??!
dude thats friggen hilarious about that kids car. so he had to swap out the entire block? haha, idiot (kids, dont use nos).
for those of you who don't know, barrett is THE place where all the ricers seem to be. everybody has their little meetups in the gas stations along the road and cruise in packs (to optomize the sound to its loudest i guess). Ive seen a few sad cases along there. Like this one time I saw this golf gti sittin outside of starbucks (i just pulled in the parkin lot) with a whole bunch of dudes lookin under the hood (he had a turbo). I take my time parking and getting out of the car and when I'm walkin in there with my bud the guy rolls past trying to shift into like 3rd in a parking lot. dummy couldnt shift worth crap and the blowoff valve sounded like it was gonna explode. stalls out like 10 ft away from us and has to start his car again.... pwned/
on another note, i was sitting in my driveway figuring out which cd to listen to when i put it in reverse and try and turn. the car was rolling backward but the wheel was locked. turns out i didnt start the car. .. haha
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10-05-2005, 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by ckg690
Well, a while ago, when my dad first taught me how to drive, I had been acting a little cocky, about how I'd be so good of a driver. We swap positions, I'm in the drivers seat...Seatbelt on, mirrors checked, engine started, a/c adjusted. I was ready to go. I hit the gas and it just revs the engine. (I was still in Park!). Emberessing, haha.
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Had been a lttle cocky? B**** you still is cocky. There aint no was in this.
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10-05-2005, 07:51 PM
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Just wondering, do all you Americans drive automatic transmissions? Does anyone drive a manual trans?
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10-06-2005, 06:51 AM
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When I got the Turbo R31 Skyline I was still in High School, I only had it for about a week, so I finally drove it to school and by home time, all the kids wait out the front for the busses, I get in the car, turn it on and get some stares because it was really loud when still cold. This kid, who was about 12 said... do a skid!
me: wtf... a skid?
kid: you know, a burnout!!
me: not today
kid: Chanting..."Burnout...burnout...burnout"
Peer pressure stepped in, so... I gave it a bootfull of revs slipped the clutch, fuel cut defender kicks in from overboosting, so it cuts the throttle...
In short, I dial a shitload of revs, cut kicks in, end up dropping clutch with no revs.
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10-06-2005, 07:55 AM
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Just wondering, do all you Americans drive automatic transmissions? Does anyone drive a manual trans?
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yes, i have a stick. And the people who drive automatic are usually lazyasses or just cant do it.
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10-06-2005, 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by brasher
When I got the Turbo R31 Skyline I was still in High School, I only had it for about a week, so I finally drove it to school and by home time, all the kids wait out the front for the busses, I get in the car, turn it on and get some stares because it was really loud when still cold. This kid, who was about 12 said... do a skid!
me: wtf... a skid?
kid: you know, a burnout!!
me: not today
kid: Chanting..."Burnout...burnout...burnout"
Peer pressure stepped in, so... I gave it a bootfull of revs slipped the clutch, fuel cut defender kicks in from overboosting, so it cuts the throttle...
In short, I dial a shitload of revs, cut kicks in, end up dropping clutch with no revs.
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Stall it in front of 500 kids
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BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
I don't drive yet but i have an embarasing moment i was with my mate in a little crap box ford with a massive turbo and huge exhaust (i used to think it was ****) it was like a hatchback neways, we were boosting (boosting = cruising in hektik aussie language hahaha) past these really hot chicks and i wanted to look cool as any guy would, so i told him to give it everything the car had so i'd look cool, him wanting to make me look like a bogan gave the car everything it had and kept short shift at around 4,000rpm just before the turb would start to spool, so there goes me in a shitbox with a huge exhaust trying to look cool i was humiliated... So i talked him into turning around and actually doing something cool.... we went past them completly sideways at 110km/h
i really must say i think the tyre smoke and the noise of the turbo made them all horny.... well we can only hope... haha!
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10-06-2005, 09:06 AM
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lol, hav_lova.. drifting past pedestrians is a bit dangerous though, you could have killed your potential girlfriends.
Come to think about my embarrasing moment... I dont think the first post was my most.
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10-06-2005, 09:34 AM
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My most embarrasing update
14 years ago, got a Ford Escort XR3i from my Dad for my birthday, 5 weeks later...
Driving to meet a girlfriend along a windy country road, it's getting dark, I'm running late, so put the foot down a bit.
I drive this road lots, so know the corners etc, but get to one, doing around 80mph, kinda mis-judge the grass verge at the side and clip it with my front passenger side wheel.
Well, I rolled the car two and a half times, knocked a farmers wall down, and hit an oncoming car, which i never realised, until I landed on my roof.
I was a bit shaken and stirred, a few bruises and bumps here and there, but no serious injuries, phew.
When the police came, they said I had to find my own way to my girlfriends, but offered me the use of their phone.
My girlfriend worked in the local taxi rank, so called her, and said, "Hi, it's me.. Can I have a taxi please?, she was like, WTF?", lol, explaining to her was pretty embarrasing...
here's some photos of my crashed car, and the gf smiling, so it was all good in the end..
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