uhhh.. what are you doing at 6k rpm in 5th?

I'm just saying, if you're cruising at 6th gear, dropping to 5th to "pull away" from someone is about as exciting as Katy Perry's Super Bowl half-time show. Not very.

Try dropping to 4th, or even 3rd if you're around 50-60MPH. Much more fun. :)

it seems there are three kinds of reactions with fellow owners:


1. The thumbs up I really like this car crowd.
2. Don't look my way unless you want to street race.
3. Don't bother me because I just bought this car because it's pretty and I don't notice other people's twins.

4. Why is that weird guy in the feminine looking RVR staring at me (the only twins I have seen were while I was driving my wife's baby blue blinged up car)

fify and yes, regularly. In fifth gear? Only on the front and back straights of PIR.

I hope I misunderstood you.

i always have big coal rolling lifted diesels try and race me, but then a corner comes and they disappear. and then i see them at work the next day

when im on winey roads i tend to stay at fourth gear

i cruise at 75-80 haha

Hey T, I am thinking that if you went for "the form", you actually might not have a real daughter. I do. Here's what I say to the boyfriend on the first date, just to set a baseline:

Hi. I am the Dad. I want you to know that you have my permission to do anything you want with my daughter on this date. No problem. Have a good time!

But, just keep one thing in mind: whatever you do to her, I am going to do to you.

Somehow, I don't need "the form".
-bk


PS: have to credit Chris Rock for this!

Real daughter that has two real kids!
Shit man, you didn't think I made that did you?

No! I knew you grabbed that from somewhere off the net.

Just adding to the forum humor.

Glad to hear that you're a real Dad as well. We'll compare gray hairs next time I am up your way.

-Fellow Dad

I've had the general, "Hey what car is that?" and such. Had one guy ask if I paid $50,000 for it. I have a sign in the back of my car that says, "You car?" in German, I like the facial expressions people give while trying to read it. That and when people go out of their way to take pictures of my car.

I need that sign!
Back in the fall just after I got my car I accidently ended up in a car show in a small town near my cottage.
After talking to a pile of people (86s and Scions in general are very rare in my neck of the woods) I go and sit on a window sill near by and this group of 4 young guys walk up to my car. The one guy starts to get way more excited then even I thought a Scion warranted. He starts telling his buddies how it is the new Porsche "Spyder" and that is what "Scion" means in German.
I was amazed to learn that my car had 600 horse, cost over $150K and was one of only 100 brought to North America! This guys was rattling off stats and facts with such confidence that even I was beginning to believe him. Apparently his day was made by getting to see such a rare supercar in person.His buddies just smiled and nodded while reading Toyota and Subaru written in about 20 places under the hood.
I never had the heart to correct him and I bet he still tells people he saw the ultra rare Porsche Spyder (Scion) in his own town.

This is where I got mine:
http://www.germanplates.com/

I work at a school district so I am in and out of high schools and jr highs all the time fixing computers and I swear the number one thing every high school dude has to ask about is if my car has a turbo.. The look of disapointment on there faces every time I say no and that it is not likely to get one gets a little old the 10th time around. Then on the opposite end of the spectrum all of the girls are obsessed with how it looks and the teachers just looove reminding me of that and to "watch out"... I am 22 and still look like I am 16 so it makes work a little frustrating sometimes.. I just have to work quickly and then run and hide :(

Need to get a job working for colleges and then all would be good in your world!

Same difference :P.

I can't let a girl chase me down or keep up. NO MA'AM!

Me 3. Twin 16 year old daughters. Plenty o' grey to be found here :bonk:

I have a teenage son.

I frequently tell him, "Don't put it in if you aren't prepared for what might come out".

So many possible meanings to this.

If you tend to linger in that rpm range you absolutely need an oil cooler. Otherwise, start saving up for that bottom-end job in your future.

I get #3 all the time with other twins, I think there's only been one other owner I've been able to trade grins/thumbs ups with. The most reliable "hey fellow car guy" demographic has been older dudes in C7s, nobody in a WRX or GTI seems to want to make eye contact for some reason.

At the rate I see twins (about 1 a month on average) if I ever do come across one while driving mine I am apt to force them off the road and give them a big hug!
(watch out driving around my hood there @NOHOME)

Jezus reading some of your posts makes me glad Texas is a CHL state.

I have yet to have any truly awkward encounter other than the "come race me bro" types every now and then.

What is CHL??????
Here it is Canadian Hockey League!

Concealed handgun license

Not from the teachers man!!!!!!:party0030:

I'm already dating a future teacher lol 5 and a half years on valentines day.. I swear time starts flying by after you get out of high school.

Pulled up behind a younger guy (younger than me at least, I am 24) in a red FRS at a gas station a while ago. I gave him a nod as I got out and got nothing more than a blank stare. I wanted to say hi or something but I got the vibe he wasn't willing to chat so I just filled up and left after he did. I ended up pulling up next to him leaving our community, and he started bouncing his car off the rev limited beside me. His exhaust was really loud/obnoxious. He probably felt pretty awkward when he realized my car was a bit more modified than his was power wise, but he did get a sweet rice flyby out of it when he caught up...

I don't usually do this, but it's slow at work, so what the heck:

I was waiting at a light yesterday on the way home. An old Honda Prelude is kissing my ass but I think nothing of it, probably just needs new brake pads.
http://www.mp3car.com/attachments/sh...side_close.jpg

Light turns green, I start driving off--apparently too slow--as I see this guy behind me throwing his hands up and yelling at his steering wheel.
http://myreactiongifs.com/gifs/angryasianracer.gif

He cuts into the next lane, obviously pissing off the people in that lane as it is just before rush hour, and tries to get in front of me aggressively.

Of course, I let him, and he ends up braking hard at the next red light so I pull up to the lane next to him. He's dodging eye contact with me at this point, so I roll down my window to get his attention. I give him one of these, but with a slight smirk as he just made my day with his madness:
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/...20130225182149

This makes him madder, so he peels off once the light turns green. His car is an automatic = more lols.
http://advancedglobalinc.com/temp/IMG_1793.jpg


Time to get onto the freeway. Circumstances cause him to end up behind me just before the clover on-ramp, and he's kissing my ass again. So I do what our cars were made to do: heel-toe, dropped 2 gears, and manhandled that on-ramp without even a chirp, leaving him in the dust.
http://www.caradvice.com.au/wp-conte...-cornering.jpg

I let off a bit to wait for him before merging onto the freeway, as he's rushing to catch up to me. Predictable as a goat, he tries to merge onto the freeway before the merging lanes meet.
http://media.komonews.com/images/100315_bad_merger.jpg

Too bad, there's a truck in the way, leaving me plenty of room to slide in front and forcing him to get behind.

About 3 minutes later, after cutting a dozen people off and illegally crossing the double-white lines to get into the express lane, he passes me and throws the finger. I tremble in my seat and shed a tear in fear.
http://www.independent.co.uk/incomin...0/roadrage.jpg


Poetic justice would have this bloke get ticketed immediately after for riding solo in the express lane/crossing the double-white lines, but life isn't a fairy tale, and he ends up hopping the double-white again further down to get out of the express lane, establishing his superiority and utter dominance over me by being 5 cars ahead in traffic.

Moral of the story: None.

The End.

Well done, would read again.

Good read. Also, I'll stealing “predictable as a goat ". Thanks

Didn't start awkward but ended up just a tad so:


Looked out my office window this afternoon to see this group of guys standing around my car and what looked like posing and taking pictures. They were all wearing what looked like very expensive over coats and suits. I decide this is a good time to take a break (ya a "break") and go out. Turns out they are a bunch of engineers from Toyota! They were all amazed and very pleased to see my very dirty, salt covered car and through a translator congratulated me for driving it in a Canadian winter. They asked a few questions about how it was in snow and cold and then obviously were ready to go in.
This is where things got awkward! Since they all had been posing for pics I asked if I could get a picture with them all beside it. The translator asked them and all of a sudden they all became very stern looking and answered him for what seemed like 20 minutes. Apparently they can not let "other people" take their picture with a car without corporate approval.


P.S. This is the second time my car has attracted a gaggle of Toyota engineers but I didn't know about the first time until a few days after it happened.

Gaijin.

Should have gone all Sean Connery in rising sun on them.

Generally bad for business if you do that to potential customers!

Call me Kohai.

http://www.dvdactive.com/images/edit...d_original.jpg

2 Ferrari 458 drivers stopped at the place I parked pointing and laughing at me and all my TRD mods and drove away.

had some kid on a vespa peak into my car to tell me it looked small and cramped inside at a stoplight last week. now i drive with the windows up

I had a Maserati driver go full-stop agro on me this morning because, without trying, I kept making better lane choices than he was. It was unreal how fucking insane this guy acted. Literally a danger to himself and others just so he could prove something to me. SMFH.

time to get to 450hp and rape his feis

Usually, the guys I see in Maseratis drive extra gingerly, probably cus it wasn't so easy to afford that thing. I wouldn't mess around in traffic if I had one of those beauties... and to pick a bone with a lowly 86, of all things :iono: