Yes, made my afternoon. Kid was being a punk, and gonna fly up the right lane and jump in front of me, but instead he got to listen to my exhaust right in his ear for a 1/4 mile, and had to get back in line. Best part was, he was already past me before I noticed him looking back at me, and then he got passed.

 

Chalk up another for the Cummins!

 

lol had a kid in a civic hatch on a two lane entrance ramp try to pass mine, saw him coming, he made it about a car infront of me before i decided to stomp on it, reeled him back in and proceeded to put bus lengths on him, few seconds later, he did a typical ricer flyby, and drove like an idiot swerving through lanes, guess he thought he won or the race wasnt over.

 

Similar thing happened to me the other day going into a 65 zone, a dude in a Mustang came up beside me and started poppin' his throttle.. SOOO I layed into it (and at that monent you could here him mash it and his auto downshift) and we went! I was pulling away from him until we were at about 90MPH or a smidge faster and I let out (at that time he was about 1.5 car lengths behind me) and he kept on going until I couldn't see him anymore, apparently he thought that would make him the official "winner" lol

 

I did that to a Rustang not too long ago. This guy was riding my tail for a while before he decided to try and pass me on the right. I saw him before he got along side me and I stomped on it. He put up a good fight, but ran out of room and had to fall back behind me again. I then decided to p___ him off some more by driving exactly the speed limit.

 

Some people crack me up. If your getting pasted on the right dosen't that mean that you were traveling in the passing lane? Don't most states have keep right pass left. And than to come up with the idea that you are going to teach someone a lesson on passing on the right. Get over were you belong, or are you trying to tick others off?

 

Good point RAF....But on the interstate I've had ricers try to squeeze in between me and the car/semi that I just passed on the right lane b/c they're too impatient to let me give enough space to change lanes...Then the smoke flies

 

RAF, I agree with you, but I guess I should have specified the road conditions. Here in Massachusetts, the roads sometimes widen from two to four lanes around busy intersections. (And sometimes just because there is room to add another lane on each side for a couple hundred yards.) I was in one of those areas. The speed limit was 35 mph, I was doing about 40-45 with the guy tailgating me. We got to where the road opened up, he tried to pass, and I didn't let him. When he ran out of room (because the road went back to two lanes again), he had to slow down to get back into the lane.

On the interstate, I'll drive in the right lane unless I'm passing someone. On local roads when there is another lane for a short distance, I'll stay in the lane that has the straight approach, which is usually the left lane. Unless the new lane is more than a couple hundred yards long.

Now, the wisdom of the road planners here in this state p_____ me off, but this isn't a good place to rant about it, so I'll end here.

 

It was just a RANT. Here in N.J. it is a big problem with people traveling in the passing lane and when you finally get a chance to pass they speed up. This happens to me at least once a day during the work week. And to my shame the gloves come off. I'll just say, they might think twice about doing that again.

 

Yep, I know how you feel, they do that up here too. Ohio drivers are the worst for that though. Every time I go through there - about every other month or so - my blood pressure goes through the roof. There's one right after another. I think they teach that in drivers ed.

 

Don't know about that...here in VA, every one seems to think the right lane is theirs........

it's not uncommon to come up on a straight stretch of highway, and see no one in the right lane, and 3 or 4 cars in the left lane.

 

I was tooling through town after a really bad day at work (brakes went out on our 22' tilt bed truck [Chev C80], broke the ram while loading something, had a dumb **** blond high schooler run up my blind side as I tried to pass a tractor, was 4 miles from home when the fuel pump went out on same truck [and of course it had just started raining]).

Anyways, sittin in the right lane and I know that there is a light about a half a mile up that I have to get in the left lane for. The only thing in the left lane is a maroon Honda accord with a huge wing, a fart can, and a license plate that reads "DRKNYT"... Now I know, since it was another high school kid driving, that even though I had one and a half car lengths on him that gettin into that lane was gonna require me to jounce the throttle a little bit. As soon as I put on my blinker and jounce the throttle here he comes full bore trying to come up on me. So of course with my temper already having been tried all day I wasn't about to let him get in front of me...

I almost had him after a 1/4 mile burst when I ran into some traffic in my lane so i had to pile on the brakes and veer in behind him. I ended up behind him at the stoplight and all I could hear was his car rev up repeatedly (sounded about like a ticked off bumble bee). I sat there and did nothing till I saw the light turn yellow on the other side and began to do a boost build, took it up to 15psi for the launch.

All I can say is that he couldn't get off his clutch quick enough nor was his car any faster than my truck because I pushed him (literally) for 1/4 mile to the next stoplight. Now, every once in awhile, I see him in town and I get a lot of room to move around in the lanes when I want to.

 

My daughter owns a new Eclipse, I have driven that car, it's the high performance one, and that thing will fly. I think it will do something like 0-60 in 5 seconds. It would take a serious diesel to beat that car. In the 70's I owned a few serious cars and none of them would keep up with her Eclipse.

BTW...she has a speeding ticket, 125MPH on the PA Turnpike coming home from work one night! I hope she learned a lesson after that one. There is no way my truck will do 126.

A race is when both drivers KNOW they are in one.

 

I did chalk up a good one recently

comin home from the huntin lease a kid in a mazda RX7, one of the older ones, with a fart can exhaust, a triple pillar gauge set, and on my right lane wanted to get on the left so he hit it, and looked at me, and i hit it as well (both chargers were somewhat lit) and even tho i missed a shift he never could catch up to pass me to get into the left lane, he gave up around 90 ish, but i had to pull into the right lane to turn anyways, and he wound up next to me on the left lane, he was just smiling and showed me a thumbs up and one of those respectful kinda nods of the head, he was however baffled that a big truck was able to lay it on him...

On top of that, i had two dead deer in the back.. (for traction)

Rick

 

Nice story Rick.

I beat a Mustang a while back, romp from third to merge, she was on the right, and missed her shift. Otherwise I would have lost (it was a GT) She looked really embarassed when she passed me. I let off about 80...