Why do people tailgate Corvettes?

[fc3]

Hi Grimace, Maybe it's cause you live in Aggieland. LOL,
Only joking, Fred.

 

[chevyaddict]

You guys think it's bad in a vette?? Try being on a bike (motorcycle) and have some bozo do that.

Wow.... never thought of that? Rocks I mean. I actually haven't experienced tailgaiting on my ZX6R... but perhaps its because when I am on that I am passing people..... very rapidly!:t

 

[Vettefan87]

What I do in my vette is I will keep my foot on the gas but just push the break pedal in far enough to get the brake lights to come on, that way the wont rear end me. If by then they dont figure out what im telling them I just drive slower, and slower, and slower until they back off. Or just blow them away.....



Justin

 

[chevyaddict]

Or just blow them away.....

You mean

Or do you mean ?

ha ha ha

I'd be careful with that slowdown stuff. When people do that to me it just ****es me off! You don't want someone retaliating especially in this day and age.

 

[Vettefan87]

No not blow them away in that way . I just slow down to about 5-7 mph under the speed limit, and then they will usually go around me, and drive slower then I was, most of the time that is.


Justin

 

[Ken]

I'm surprised that no one has commented on the fact that our rear overhang is pretty short, and although the person behind us may in fact be tailgating, it always appears closer to us than it really is. Used to freak me out until I got used to it.

I still hate tailgaters though, but I've been known to use that tactic to intimidate people, especially when someone in front of me is wandering aimlessly around in the street, usually talking on a friggin' cell phone! Something about the loud exhaust usually gets their attention. :L

 

[hAZcAT]

I found tinting the back glass helps allot at night. the tailgaters are still there but at least I am not blinded

 

[Ken]

How 'bout the SUV's headlights in your side view mirror? That's a little annoying, eh? Not to mention blinding! :eek

 

[hAZcAT]

I am always changeing the side mirrors, very annoying. maybe we should start haveing our bumpers made out of polished stainless steel,

 

[Ken]

:L A chrome-bumper C6!!

 

[sherry_ridgeway]

hi all
they tailgate because their IGNERT!!! ...Like the "beatles song says"
"step on the gas and whipe that tear away" ...they mostly tailgate out of jealiously ..just to see a vette move, I Iggie them bums...their dreaming
Sherry

 

[vee93]

This guy in a Dodge Ram pickup was glued to my ass for 10 miles heading in to work. Even the simultaneous stop sign routine, him using my stop and hanging on my bumper. Did I owe this puke money? This is far from the first time, and only in this car. James Bond oil slick? Roofing tacks? It freaks me out every time!

Please tell me I'm not alone, and give me some suggestions on managing this situation. Reaching for the pistola is not the answer.

Happens to me 99.9 percent of the time when I'm out and about in the Vette. It almost never happens when I'm in my 'lil droptop Z24 Cavalier.
Just last night, not one, not two, but 4 truck driving idiots in different parts of town---1 in a Titan, 2 in D.R. Hemis and 1 in a jacked up SUV (the kind you need a ladder to get into), rolled up about a millimeter off my bumper. ALL of them thought it was pretty clever to brighten their headlights and pull slightly off center behind me so their driver side headlight could blaze in my side mirror and illuminate the entire interior of my car.
I am not one of those people that reaches up to adjust the rear view mirror or fiddles with my side mirror to deflect their bright lights outta my eyes. I don't duck-n-dodge my head, squint, blink, frown or throw dirty looks their way. Sure it bugs me--even angers me, but they'll never know it. Cause I act as if they're not there. Now THAT bugs them.
Mostly, I think it's envy; yep jealousy: that Green-eyed Monster that rears its ugly head in them, turning them into a-holes.
They see a woman (me) in a good lookin, brightly colored Vette and think what?.... "Oh..., lookit, she's in her husband/boyfriend's car." Or, "It's a present from Daddy and I'm gonna show her what for." I don't know or care.
One of those guys in a Hemi followed me all over town. He never would pass. This is at 1 a.m. in the morning and we are virtually alone.
I got rid of him though when he thought he could make that big ole truck do what the Vette did: which was take a 35mph, 45-degree dog leg merge onto the interstate at 60-some mph!!! Oh he tried. Until his back end almost beat him to the interstate. I never looked back on the merge--too busy concentrating. Once on the interstate I did look back and could see him shootin grass and dirt chunks as he spun his tires to right himself. By the time he merged, I was well..., I was gone---about 100 car-lengths gone.

 

[Ken]

They see a woman (me) in a good lookin, brightly colored Vette and think what?.... 1 a.m. in the morning and we are virtually alone.

I was gonna joke with you about being out alone at that hour, but on second thought, I say to myself, "I wonder how she'll take it?" :L

 

[vee93]

I was gonna joke with you about being out alone at that hour, but on second thought, I say to myself, "I wonder how she'll take it?" :L

Hey, Ken..., I take it well 'cause with my doors locked, I figure, ya gotta catch me first. Joking aside though, I try and be as careful as can be. I'm a peace-lovin individual, but my Momma didn't raise no fool either--- I AM armed
Notice I mention no incident of road rage

 

[Ken]

... no incident of road rage

 

[Edmond]

One of those guys in a Hemi followed me all over town. He never would pass. This is at 1 a.m. in the morning and we are virtually alone.

At that point, I would've just called the cops and had him taken away in cuffs. Normal people don't follow strangers around at 1 a.m. in the morning.

 

[jdenn47]

Happens all the time

I live in the suburbs of a med. size city in PA. Best school systems and HS Kids with those little Hondas & Nissans that Mommy bought them that are 6 inches off the ground and the tail pipes as big as their wheels. They love to tailgate and if on the hwy., want to race you. Maybe they should go back to Mommy and tell her to buy them a real car, a Vette.

 

[taegdh]

I've noticed the same thing, and it does scare me to think that some of these (I use the word loosely) people, actually have a driver's licence. They either tail gate or expect you to want to drop the hammer between the lights. I don't know what it is, but some people get behind the wheel of a car, and their synapses cross circuit, and common sense is turned off.

I'll share what really ticked me off the other day. I was tailgated by an unmarked cruiser. Late model white Crown Victoria with darkened windows in the side and back. I had it spotted over a mile up the street and was behaving. She pulls me over to cite me for not having my "3rd brake light" functioning. I pointed it out to her that I was driving an 85 and the third brake light wasn't required until 86. She didn't want to listen to me. To throw her off, I asked her if the video tape system was working. She answered in the affirmative. I suggested that she call dispatch, and to ask the powers that be what year the "third brake light" became mandatory. Reluctantly she did, I stood right next to the car and she did it. They came back in my favor, with the sound coming out the grill speaker. Sheepish is probably the best word to describe the tone used in muttering an appology. I did my best hard of hearing routine (not very hard after three carrier tours) so it would make it to the audio portion of the tape.

After I got to my destination I called an acquaintance who happens to work for the same municipality. They pulled the tape from the vehicle after her shift, and played it both for the training aspects and their own edification.

I was just doing my civic duty. I could have taken the ticket, went to court and made her look like the jerk she was being, but don't like to waste the tax payer's money any more than necessary. (Politicians do that all too well!)

 

[Ken]

Normal people don't follow strangers around at 1 a.m. in the morning.

In today's day and age we don't, but at one time, we did just that (follow girls around), and the women knew what they were doing.

Nowadays it's called stalking. :L

 

[jiangtao]

i almost started this topic a while back,but while we are on it....... i hate PT cruisers, mini vans, suvs, and almost any kind of truck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i REALLY hate a ricer with a huge POS wing{makes the car faster!!!} on it and a fart can for a muffler. i have been trying to deal with this for some time.{i am better now!!} usually i just let them go on by. on a bad day,,,, i floor it and leave them behind{actually works most of the time} on a really bad day???? well i have been guilty of just completely stopping in the middle of the road and walking up to their window and asking them what their problem is.{ i know that is really bad} a friend of mine once told me a secret about t-tops/targa tops and a good 'ole loogie.{let the imagination go on that one} well, i better stop for now.