Random Thoughts Thread

[jetfuel]

Originally Posted by fpage77

What it's like to drive a Toyota.

Toyota Simulator

...Toyota my @$$...that's just like driving Tail of the Dragon...

jetfuel...faster...faster..

[Wdhitch]

Originally Posted by jetfuel

that's just like driving Tail of the Dragon...

Did someone say yellow lines????

Geez is it September yet?????

[Wdhitch]

You know it's season when you hit OT on Thursday.... 38 hours in 3 days.... yikes.

[BobDiaz]

jediknight36, I took you photo one step farther...






Bob Diaz

[BB Benz]

Oh, that is so BAD!

[Kermit]

I don't understand how when talking about my driving a lot of people seem to use the words "Maniac" and "Crazy" a lot. Never really considered myself an aggressive driver and would think my mileage (MPG) records would back up my feeling on that. My MPG is continuously OVER EPA ratings.

I think it is the fact I don't slow down around corners might be one thing or maybe the screaming at inattentive drivers doing everything else other than paying attention to what is around them may be another. Seems there is two catagories: the group who refuses to get in the car with me and the group who normally does it says, "Woohoo, this is gonna be FUN!".

FWIW, I refuse to weave in and out of traffic and will not tailgate. If there is a straightaway with no cars around I do what I feel appropriate.

[rfernatt]

Hey, BumB, do you ever see those orange cones when a lane is blocked off late at night when no one is watching and here a voice that's screaming "Slalom, slalom baby!!"

I hear it too...

[Kermit]

Originally Posted by rfernatt

Hey, BumB, do you ever see those orange cones when a lane is blocked off late at night when no one is watching and here a voice that's screaming "Slalom, slalom baby!!"

I hear it too...

Oh yeah, I do it! FWIW during the little meet down in Orlando last month I "think" I may have just did a straight line over those cones of at least clipped them. Those stupid bases shouldn't extend out an couple of inches, that is what I kept hitting and knocking them down. I tend to drive very close to objects, my job requires me to so I think that is where I got that from.

[Neonspinnazz]

Originally Posted by Bum-bling-B

I don't understand how when talking about my driving a lot of people seem to use the words "Maniac" and "Crazy" a lot. Never really considered myself an aggressive driver and would think my mileage (MPG) records would back up my feeling on that. My MPG is continuously OVER EPA ratings.

I think it is the fact I don't slow down around corners might be one thing or maybe the screaming at inattentive drivers doing everything else other than paying attention to what is around them may be another. Seems there is two catagories: the group who refuses to get in the car with me and the group who normally does it says, "Woohoo, this is gonna be FUN!".

FWIW, I refuse to weave in and out of traffic and will not tailgate. If there is a straightaway with no cars around I do what I feel appropriate.

People criticize me because I drive economically fast (accelerate slow, don't brake very much) (within the speed limit) and I don't brake when I turn corners (like into businesses or neighborhoods), I just coast...I brake before the turn...

That is, unless I'm playing "touring car driver"...

And I love straights with no cars in sight...I hit 110mph in Little Kia last Friday...

And if that straight is empty again someday (it's rarely empty)...I'ma shoot for the top end of 137mph...

Originally Posted by rfernatt

Hey, BumB, do you ever see those orange cones when a lane is blocked off late at night when no one is watching and here a voice that's screaming "Slalom, slalom baby!!"

I hear it too...

Little Kia hugs the ground...although I have to admit, I have taken out just 1 cone...



P.S. To quench my need for speed, I'm going to BlackHawk RaceTrack in South Beloit (IL) on track days to post some nice lap times and race my buddy (he drives a 1991 Mazda 626).

[forestacademy]

Originally Posted by Neonspinnazz

P.S. To quench my need for speed, I'm going to BlackHawk RaceTrack in South Beloit (IL) on track days to post some nice lap times and race my buddy (he drives a 1991 Mazda 626).

Drop me a note if you do. Its not all that far away