How come no one ever wants to race me?

WinkOsmosis

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Guys with Colts, 80s Civics, Suburbans, and Alfa Romeos get people wanting to race them at stop lights... but no one ever wants to race my 240sx unless they know me. I feel left out. It must be because they know they have no chance!!
 

Deeko

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Originally posted by: Jellomancer
Guys with Colts, 80s Civics, Suburbans, and Alfa Romeos get people wanting to race them at stop lights... but no one ever wants to race my 240sx unless they know me. I feel left out. It must be because they know they have no chance!!

Because your car looks fast :p My brother's '90 240sx looks alot faster than my '94 626 (which I crashed), but I burned the hell out of him.
 

KingNothing

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You have to be confident. When you pull up to a car you'd like to go with, talk with it a little then rev your engine in a grand show of machismo. If the other car responds, you're good to go. :D
 

Peetoeng

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Originally posted by: Jellomancer
Guys with Colts, 80s Civics, Suburbans, and Alfa Romeos get people wanting to race them at stop lights... but no one ever wants to race my 240sx unless they know me. I feel left out. It must be because they know they have no chance!!

Sometimes, when I see a racehead next to me at the stop light, I would rev up my engine. When he launches, I just start normally and LOL at the sucker!
 

chiwawa626

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Yeah everyone always tells me about how tehy get challenged to race...even if they drive vans, neons, and echos....I drive a boat, i mean 92 ls400, v8 4L....why dosent anyone ever wanna race lol?
 

NikPreviousAcct

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Maybe they're too afraid that, if you beat them, they'll have to stare at your ass. And, if they beat you, they're too afraid of having you that close to theirs.
 

WinkOsmosis

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Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Maybe they're too afraid that, if you beat them, they'll have to stare at your ass. And, if they beat you, they're too afraid of having you that close to theirs.

Nice.
 

bmacd

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Originally posted by: Rallispec
suburbans? who the F races suburbans?

i was at the light of a busy intersection at two in the morning with a friend. The 'burban pulls up and keeps edging up, and my friend says, "smoke his ass". Despite the fact that i'm highly against road racing, i punch it. I pulled off the lead, given my smaller SUV (explorer), and since knew i was going to win, i slowed down. With a quarter mile left of road before his lane merged into mine, he felt it necessary to try and beat me. I punched the pedal again and we were hanging neck to neck, which was quite an accomplishment seeing as his vehicle is 1000 to 2000 pounds heavier than mine, not to mention he had two extra passengers. Long story short, i beat him by a car's length before the guy merged, in which they were honking and shouting out the window for another race. I decided to pull in a parking lot and let him pass.

-=bmacd=-
 

WinkOsmosis

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My friend who drives his parents' Suburban has lots of race stories. I raced him once and lost because I shifted into 5th instead of 3rd :(. But we were neck and neck until then. This was with two other guys in his car. I've beaten an Explorer with two guys in it by about a car length, at least until someone pulled out in front of him, so I think a Suburban is faster than an Explorer... and an automatic Integra too for that matter.
 

PeeluckyDuckee

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lol, big boats racing each other, it's like one turtle duking it out with another turtle. Lets see which turtle goes slow, and which turtle goes slower :p
 

WinkOsmosis

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Originally posted by: PeeluckyDuckee
lol, big boats racing each other, it's like one turtle duking it out with another turtle. Lets see which turtle goes slow, and which turtle goes slower :p

240sx = boat? :confused:
 

ElFenix

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Originally posted by: Jellomancer
Originally posted by: PeeluckyDuckee
lol, big boats racing each other, it's like one turtle duking it out with another turtle. Lets see which turtle goes slow, and which turtle goes slower :p

240sx = boat? :confused:

no bmacd's story or your story
 

MichaelD

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Maybe they don't want to street race you because they know that you are either going to:

A) Get busted by the cops any minute now

or

B) Die in a fiery wipeout after losing control of your "hot little import street burner-upper" and going head-first into a telephone pole.


Ever think of those two things?