best scalps?

[dave80]

was talking to a mate the other day about beating bigger/better/faster cars,wether down to superior driving etc.everyone has or should have a tale like this so what is yours?

[dodgerover]

Chugging up silly steep hill in a foot of snow in my old astra leaving several posh 4wd's behind when they spun to a stop. Not quite so much fun coming down in what was effectively about a tonne and a half of sledge though.

[dave80]

it is funny watching modern luxury cars slide about looking stupid in a car that costs less than their cup holder option!

[justanotherhigh]

Well of course I managed to pass a fiesta ST with my Sunny on dual carriageway at...... 70mph the look I got was priceless.

And also climbing the steep hill between Bakewell and Buxton in the snow and driving through snowdrifts in the allegro, passing various family 4x4s and big RWD motors, that makes me happy too.

[optima21]

on a few ocasions I've "beaten" cars in my standard 1L polo because I use a map printed off the internet stuck to my dashboard rather than using sat nav....its amazing now many times sat nav has taken people the scenic way by the worlds longest short cuts.

with my driving its a case of the tortoise and the hare, the powerful cars go off into the distance, I've arrived at the destination before them, and then wonder if I'm the one thats lost and they arrive after me

[Seth]

[sprintmini]

My Imp was always leaving new stuff stuck in the snow, I remember overtaking an x type jag on a snow covered hill.
I got a round of applause when I got to the top.
Also in my Imp a lad in a ford puma was revving his car at the lights as we set off I opened the throttle a little too much and managed to spin my Imp at the right turn onto the dual carriageway, I know not strictly a scalp but fun nonetheless less.
And my claim to fame again not a scalp, but attempting to drag race Steve berry of top gear fame he was in his 6.9 merc and I was in my (very tired) mk1 golf GTI.
I missed a gear and he shot off.

[dave80]

mk1 golfs rock,my old 1.3 on a 1.1 box lost a mk3 cav sri through town,that'l teach him to laugh at my dtm pipe!

[longman]

4 blokes in a Corsa with their arms out the window whooping as they passed (in the outside lane) a line of 80's 911's foolishly and patiently waiting for the lights to change in Brighton .. ,good on you chaps..!

[styleheck]

Neck-on-neck traffic light sprint to the 125MPH mark in a far to cheap Polo G40 parts car, against a Porsche Cayenne S.
The face of the Porsche driver, priceless!
Still not sure if the Polo was that fast or the 330bhp Cayenne just too heavy.

[bortaf]

Very posh area near me (hadley wood)is a shortcut to Barnet i use a lot, in the snow (not a lot maybe 4 inches at most) i watched a new RR spin all 4 wheels and slide sideways into a driveway and get wedged there between the marker posts, then passed an Aston sat spining his uberwide rears, a BMW M5 doing the same and another RR sport stuck on incline, wafted past the on oppo lock in my shed of a Lucida, using nothing but deflated tyres (10 PSI) and common sense(well no commonsense used for the oppo bit, obv that was just showing off) .

[Smiler]

Traffic lights on two lanes of local city one-way system. I'm in a knackered old blue Meastro 1.3HL. A white mk4 Escort pulls up alongside. Body kit, reving his engine, turns up his stereo. I'm an easy target.
Numb-nuts over cooks it and sits there spinning his wheels (creating lots of noise and attracting lots of attention from plenty of witnesses to his 'greatness'). So I floor it and get a good head start. He's not happy, even less so when I decide to pull across into his lane in front of him and then get 'stuck in 2nd gear' for a whole lap of the one-way system with him sat on my all the way around.

[EmDee]

[mk14dr]

Once, in escRot, I found myself side by side at a set of lights with my friend in his Mk4 Zetec S. We were both being goaded into it so when the lights changed I did what I could to hustle it away with zero mechanical sympathy. It was about a 8th of a mile before the roundabout and I was pulling on him the whole distance, to such an extent I had a least 5 lengths on him by the time we started braking. That was his stock ZetecS vs escRot which at the time was running a very tired 1300block with an 1100 head and otherwise totally stock.I was impressed anyway.

Not enough pictures in this thead, so I googled 'retro car scalp' (a phrase I never thought I'd use!)

[Dom]

When someone gets a bit pushy trying to force their way into your lane, it's like a game of "chicken". How close they go depends upon their car but a tatty old AX wins every time.



Also, not on topic, but I once had my managing director at work, fully-suited and about to get into his A5, offer to push my AX to get it started. That was magic!

[Jizmondo Scrotmondo]

A few years back I'd been made redundant and was on a welding course with the Dole (which I really enjoyed and appreciated BTW) and at the time I had a mk2 Breadvan Ranger (1.3 GT engine, 5 spd box & roof bars!) which I paid £250 for.

It's the best car I've ever owned in the snow. I was passing 4WD's and broken down cars and for a couple if days I was the only bloke making it to the college ha.

[g40jon]

old polos do seem to rock in the snow! The past few years we have had pretty deep snow in north oxfordshire and the trusty old polo has always got me home.
Last year was the most amusing though! My normal route home had been blocked by people who neither had the car or skill to be driving in the snow. I did a u-turn and headed home via the country roads. In a way i think this helped, as they had not been gritted and I was driving in fresh snow rather than slush.
Driving a supercharged polo in 8 inches of snow certainly got some bemused looks from farmer types driving the same roads in land rovers, little did they know I was running town and country tyres which basically looked like mini off road 4x4 tyres, grippy!
As for scalps, the best traffic light drag race I can remember has to be when I outran a jag xk8. charged polos make for good street sleepers! On the flip side though a civic driver completely whipped me off of the same set of dual c/way lights! I don't know what had been done to it, but the v-tec really kicked in yo!

[ferny]

An Alfa Romeo GT Black Line through a serious of round-a-bouts and long straights. Ok, they're not the fastest cars in the world, but I was in a Citroen C1 at the time!

[Rich606]

My ZX doing 70mph will easily overtake more modern cars that are doing, say, 60mph. It's all about physics.

[Deleted]

some i remember as a kid in my dads old cars:

w116 280se
stuck behind a tanker lorry goin up hill on dual carriageway (my dad) decides to overtake pulls out and floors the old merc (wet road raining heavily) and the tanker pulls away from us as we just sat in the outside lane with a total lack of traction.
another time racing against a sw20 mr2 and the look on the persons face as we went flying past.

before that was this:

my dad got caught speeding whilst going up wintles hill he was overtaking a new sierra sapphire cosworth.

then there was this

my dad always drove this hard, probably one of the most memorable incidents involved a mitsubishi gto twin turbo trying to keep up with it on the motorway my dad eventually being followed in to the services my the gto and the owner wanting to know what had been done to it as he was absolutly flat out and the old granada was gradually pulling away!!! (the car would easily go off the clock)

thats just a few good memories : )


friend of mine had just got a honda civic type s (7th gen) we were heading to local meet most of mates had corsa's, nova's etc mate in the civic tried 3 times at traffic lights to outrun me each time the old cavalier was about half a cars length in front we where both suprised he didnt keep the civic much longer,
embarrasing moment even though was in the cav on my own got baited late at night by an integra type r tired just want to get home get stuck behind someone (at time thought bloody old guy out late at night) going about 45 mph get to a place where i could overtake floored the cav to go past and got left standing
(at least i tried right?)

most recently

not entirly sure why but: 3 lads in an astra vxr pull next to me at traffic lights lisa with me lads in vxr blipping throttle etc, lisa encouraging as always. so floor the merc soon as lights change lads in vxr do the same merc goes abit sideways and starts pulling away can hear the vxr screaming out over 8/900 yards we pull a car length clear of them. me and lisa pretty suprised as both thought that a vxr is suppose to be pretty quick. i can only think that we hurt a few ego's that afternoon.