Flashing Headlights - Do You Do This?

[PNWbrit]

maybe across the pond but not here.
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If people across the pond were flashing their brites at Willie... would he be able to see them from here?

[frorider]

alpy:

[Hugh Conway]

If people across the pond were flashing their brites at Willie... would he be able to see them from here?

Was he saving 2 hours on his commute? Was he an expert driver because of all the accidents?

[PNWbrit]

Was he saving 2 hours on his commute?

^ becoming the plane on a treadmill of 2013?

[Hugh Conway]

For want of a 10 car pass the first chair was missed by hours. For want of a first chair a ski day was lost. For want of a ski day the season was lost. For want of a season a skiing life was lost.

Don't let that be you!

[boarddad]

15 years ago you could save considerable time by passing cars and trucks on the way to Mammoth. Now the 395 has passing lanes almost the whole way. Now the time savings passing cars outside of the passing lanes is minimal, and would likely be lost when you get pulled over by the CHP's that are now far more numerous. Have at it though Speed Racer. If you are doing 90, I sure as hell won't get pulled over doing 75. You can consider that flash of high beams to be a t"hank you" rather than a "fuck you" if it makes you feel better.

[EZB]

Please don't slow down thinking that "helps" somebody pass you. Best to maintain the same speed. Thank you.

[Chainsaw_Willie]

Dude, you are an angry man. No wonder you need hookers, you could not even hold onto a stripper.

It's funny you admit, by the act of starting this thread, that you are a douche driver

There are only a couple people on this site I've considered putting on ignore but in your case I just can't do it - you're way to amusing.

Thanks for the laughs, professor.

[Chainsaw_Willie]

It's funny how people are obviously flashing him because they think he's driving like a dick and he's all, "...nooo, that can't be it, what does it really mean?"

For the win.


It's also funny to watch the inevitable exaggerations and erroneous conclusions based on facts not in evidence in threads like this.

[plugboots]

Hey Willie, from our local forum:
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Well you are all are wrong....
During the day we wave...
At night we wink.....
Just Kidding but was a friendly valley thought...
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Those folks were just saying "Hi, c'mon into our lane!!!!!!!"

[brice618]

When I drove trucks, I always let off the gas as another truck was passing me (on a two lane road). Do not let off until they are in the other lane.

The sooner they get around and back on the right side of the road, the safer for everyone.

This shit drives me nuts. Why is it that a trucker going 3 mph faster than another trucker needs to pass and therefore block the passing lane for a fucking mile or more just so he can be in front of the other guy all the while both still going below the speed limit? WHY?!

[wooley12]

So many can drive a car. So few are motor vehicle operators. The car drivers won't get it.

[Chainsaw_Willie]

Too true wooley. To most people a car is a transportation appliance. Just like a refrigerator or dryer it has a singular task to accomplish and anything beyond transportation is just a luxury to a driver. Operators are interested in the connection between themselves and the machine. It's as much about the journey as the destination. Sports cars exist for operators, priuses are for drivers.

[iceman]

Sports cars exist for operators, priuses are for drivers.

I know it's just a matter of semantics but I would put it exactly the other way around. People who like to drive, drive. People who are just trying to get from point A to point B just operate the machine. But I know what you're saying.

ps. fucking Priuses. Or Prii, whatever you would say.

[PNWbrit]

Sports cars exist for operators.

Not for the Indian guy trying to drive the silver F430 in downtown Seattle this morning.... enough to make a grown man cry.

[theshredder]

Usually I have a problem with people with bright lights when I'm driving my subaru home from the local resort after shredding crud like mad all day.

I have the green megawatt bulbs with sick fog lights. All the little people in their fucking prii keep flashing me, like I care. I get a mad rush from driving my subaru. Its sick

Trucks handle like crap in snow, especially the lifted ones. Thats a FACT. When it snows I pass long lines like they're just obstacles in my subaru and spin snow into their windshields. Sometimes they flash me as I go by, like I care.

grrr =

edit to add pic/tone down the language...

[Hugh Conway]

Not for the Indian guy trying to drive the silver F430 in downtown Seattle this morning.... enough to make a grown man cry.

90% of recent Ferrari owners are nobs who buy the car as a show off symbol. Same for most sports car owners this days because without driving like a complete and utter cunt it's pretty hard to enjoy a modern car on public roads.

[PNWbrit]

90% of recent Ferrari owners are nobs who buy the car as a show off symbol.

Sanjay almost put his into the back of a garbage truck when it took off on him after some very impressive stop light revving.

Due entirely to this thread I flashed my lights at him.

[Hugh Conway]

Sanjay almost put his into the back of a garbage truck when it took off on him after some very impressive stop light revving.

pure gold. A couple weeks ago I took a back road, midday, and encountered a phalanx of sportscars (Lambo, Aston, Ferrari, RSaudi and a Turdla) out for the midday cars and coffee. I in my shitbox kept up with them on the tight windy road with no cops, but couldn't compete with them in the stoplight engine revving.... which seemed the highlight of the drive. Based on various owner comments, that's the highlight of a car now, the sound.

[userA]

thy pipe sound in to some elec. vehicles i've heard.