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One of the things i love about going about in old motors is seeing people admiring your old motor, but one of the things i cannot stand is when i'm at a junction or a roundabout or even traffic lights and the car that i'm waiting to pass slows down to a crawl because the driver wants to take a good look at your car and/or wave at you or give the thumbs up. Does anyone else find this annoying or am i just being anti social?
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I usually find the opposite, everybody assumes I will be going slowly and can jump out in front or cut me up. Am getting the urge to fit line locks and light up the back tyres at the lights....
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One of the things i love about going about in old motors is seeing people admiring your old motor, but one of the things i cannot stand is when i'm at a junction or a roundabout or even traffic lights and the car that i'm waiting to pass slows down to a crawl because the driver wants to take a good look at your car and/or wave at you or give the thumbs up. Does anyone else find this annoying or am i just being anti social? Tell me about it, I've got a few 70's/80's motors & it does happen, but one of them is a Delorean & that is on a totally different level. When I bought it I expected it to get attention but tbh it's crazy. On a dual carriageway the same car will overtake you & then slow down literally 6 or 7 times. People will sit on your offside rear quarter on a dual carriageway, but coz it's a left hooker ( with sh!t visability) they are right in your blind spot, had a few close ones there. But yeh does sometimes get annoying, just one of the things that goes with owning unusual cars I guess
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I usually find the opposite, everybody assumes I will be going slowly and can jump out in front or cut me up. Am getting the urge to fit line locks and light up the back tyres at the lights.... I got this a lot when dailying my Wolseley 1300. I'd be sitting on 70mph on the highway and people would just pull out in front of me. That's why the horn has to work to get a wof/mot. Worst of all is the drivers who pull out, think "oh, I shouldn't have done that", and then jump on the brakes instead of nailing the gas to get out of the way. Similar thing happens here with many people not liking to stay behind an old car, no matter how fast it is going. They'll struggle to pass and then slow down in front of you. My boss gets this in his E49 Charger too.
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... Similar thing happens here with many people not liking to stay behind an old car, no matter how fast it is going. They'll struggle to pass and then slow down in front of you. Same here, my record is overtaking the same car 3 times in 5 miles (he kept coming past at high speed on the straights then being over-cautious at every roundabout on the dual-carridgeway, where I was happy to sail past without slowing) There was also a 911 that didn't like me going past him on tight curve on the dual-carridgway in my 328i - he came past at high speed (69mph - ish) on the next straight then slowed so I went past him
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mikeymk
Part of things
'85 Polo Coupe S 1.6 16v
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I don't think mine looks special enough to get much in the way of problems, but i have noticed it's special enough to help me out a bit - in that i'm generally given more clearance in it, whereas i get treated like a second class citizen in mundane modern stuff (MK4 Golf, Pug 207). Maybe people just have more caution when they see me, because they don't know what to expect of me.
Just occasionally it can get dangerous, because some drivers of fast modern cars seem to see me as a challenge, it's as if they have something to prove. In fact the quicker TDi's are the biggest problem, and i learnt to give them some extra caution when one nearly took me off the road because he just presumed he'd got past me - instead of checking first before pulling across into my lane.
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I've had the go passed slow down thing while out 2 up on my dads 70's Norton doing about 60ish a 1200 Bandit came flying passed on the straight road but hit the brakes massively when they came to some bends, old Nortons handle surprisingly well so I didn't slow down and went straight by them mid corner...must have embarrassed them as they stayed behind the rest of the way
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my main grip is tail gaters. my old landy has about 40bhp/tonne so its impossible to accelerate, slow down, turn as fast as modern traffic, and if i do try it goes down to single figure MPG.
it does get a bit intimidating sometimes, it goes without saying that everyone elses journey is more important than mine and being a hindrance to their journey its a few steps up from statutory rape and manslaughter it seems, from some peoples reactions.
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Rubbernecking accord83
@accord83
Club Retro Rides Member 51
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I got this a lot when I had my Rover, despite the V8 clue on the bootlid, people would also see me approach and lunge out of side roads in front of me. It is strange when I'm in the Escort, as I don't get the annoying driving, but I have been passed, then forced to pass, an Audi on the M6 whilst the kids in it filmed my car, but if it gives lads about ten years old an interest, I'm all for that.
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74 Mk1 Escort 1360, 1971 Vauxhall Victor SL2000 Estate.
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quasimoto
Part of things
I started out with nothing and i have still got most of it left
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If the ordinary folk on the road notice our retro or modified cars with enough interest to gawp then maybe we are all doing something right and living the dream. Its the family carriers with Dad looking enviously out of passenger window at your retro or modified makes me smile. Have to say my modded Jeep seemed to attract attention but for real attention seeking my Reliant Robin was more watchable than my Forester or Impreza Wagon. If it allows interest to a younger generation maybe its good. For the halfords stick on performance lot maybe their taste is to much beating to someone elses drumbeat they do not appreciate retro or subtle modified ?
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Mad As A Box Of Frogs
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jasonj
Part of things
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I like the attention mostly. There was one instance on the M62 last year i didn't approve of. I was in contraflow doing about 50mph and a car shot up the inside of me to get a close up look. The driver not realising that the lane he was in was coming to an end and was a gnats c0ck away from wedging himself between a concrete barrier and my car. There was a car to the outside of me so couldn't pull out. I floored it and thankfully he slammed on and by luck there was nobody behind him. Could easily have been a multi car pile up.
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Team Supercharged Opel Ascona 400. 294bhp - 235 lb/ft
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willg
Part of things
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Driving both my Mini's, which are quite a common classic, got quite alot of attention. On the L2B 2015 run, I remember there was a guy in a new Golf gawping at all the Mini's in central London, wasnt watching the road, mounted the kerb and hit a lamppost! Airbags went off too!
I also echo the point of being pulled out on, the amount of times going round roundabouts and being pulled out on or people thinking they can go, then they slam their brakes on, blocking the road
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Retro is best!
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mexicansteve
South West
Posts: 683
Club RR Member Number: 31
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Rubbernecking mexicansteve
@mexicansteve
Club Retro Rides Member 31
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the going slow is going to happen, I just accept it, drive with that in mind and understand that I have a cool car
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BeQuietandDrive
1989 Bedford Astra Van
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Feb 10, 2016 19:15:34 GMT
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I'm fine with the waving and stares, the 2cv is a rather unusual looking car, and a pretty rare sight these days. But, as others have said, people seem to think that I am doing 5 mph at all times. It is not a fast car, but will keep up with town traffic and country roads, it is just motorways that are no fun. The times I have been cut up by people who then go slower than I was going anyway, must be in the thousands. I don't care if people want to get past, if it proves something and makes them feel big to force their way past an ancient car with a tiny engine, but please be safe when doing it!
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I'm fine with the waving and stares, the 2cv is a rather unusual looking car, and a pretty rare sight these days. But, as others have said, people seem to think that I am doing 5 mph at all times. It is not a fast car, but will keep up with town traffic and country roads, it is just motorways that are no fun. The times I have been cut up by people who then go slower than I was going anyway, must be in the thousands. I don't care if people want to get past, if it proves something and makes them feel big to force their way past an ancient car with a tiny engine, but please be safe when doing it! there's nothing quite like overtaking a brand new car with a 33 year old one and then thinking will that car i overtook live to be even a third of what my car is! This car that you sneer at and you refer to as "an old banger" has lived through 33 british winters, 30 MOT tests, scrappage schemes and has passed the point where all it was worth was the scrap metal value, it's lived through all that and can hold it's own against cars that were only bought for the sole purpose of having a "brand new car"
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