Old story from this thread but
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28502 but for you new guys
Oct6/14
Soooo went a long time with nothin' now they are coming out of the wood work!
Some great poetic justice on this one though.
Was sitting at a light on Friday and a last gen Eclipse pulls up beside me. He looks over and starts to rev the living crap out of it.
The light changes, he pops the clutch at what must have been close to redline and immediately torque steers right into the curb!
I slowly drove away, took a brief trip around the block and went past from the other direction.
He was still there with an almost horizontal wheel and a rapidly spreading puddle of fluids under the car!
Was gonna honk and wave but it is a small city and my car stands out too much to take the chance on retaliation.
Oct 31/14
So just how often do you get to update a "come race me bro" encounter?
Went to a local burger joint for lunch and who should pull in beside me but Mr. Eclipse himself!
This guy is massive and about half my age (glad I had restraint and didn't honk and wave after his crash)
I think "oh shit this may not be pretty".
He walks over sticks his hand out and introduces himself.
Turns out he was a really nice guy (thank god).
He also confirmed something I have always wondered about regarding some of what we think must be "race me" encounters.
He said when he was revving he wasn't challenging me he just liked the sound of my exhaust at idle and wanted to hear it revved a bit.
When he took off he was just trying to get ahead of me to see the front of the car.
He had no idea what the car was much less how fast or slow it was and just wanted a better look.
Told him probably better to just roll down the window and gesture next time as I would have been happy to pull over and chat.
I was correct in my assumption that he torque steered and the error cost him $1200 in repairs.
So, I guess the moral of the story is even though a lot of the flybys and tail huggers are certainly just assholes many may be simply curious.
We know so much about the car that we seem to think everybody else does and that just isn't reality.