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Jun 21, 2008 23:37:47 GMT
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sooo...
I was just driving home from the mrs, and I love driving at night. Through my town I caught up to a punto which was going the same direction as me. Now i'm not sure if the driver thought I was following him/her or something, but they randomly sped up and slowed down which was quite annoying. So I overtook them (safely) down a straight road near my house, but then it started following me so I went down a different road instead to let it past. Instead of going on it just stopped and waited at the entrance to the new road I'd just gone down so I didnt know what to do. sooo I drove back up the road, and the punto tried to block me in; though obviously as I was in a mini they absolutely failed and I just drove past.I then scarpored pretty quickly its fair to say, and drove about a bit before going back home, now I'm kind of scared! I don't know anyone with a punto either, so its not like its someone who knows me :S
anyway, If no one ever hears from me again, I've been kidnapped or similar!
anything like this ever happened to any of you lot?
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Slightly worried/scaredBenzBoy
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Jun 21, 2008 23:44:23 GMT
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Jeez, that's a bit weird! Probably a car-load of stoned chavs or similar mucking about. My mate thought he saw his friend driving a car, so followed. The car ahead got more and more spooked at this car tailing them and did this insane getaway manouever up a footpath to get away! ;D My mate genuinely thought he knew the driver of the other car, but it turned out not to be him. ;D
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stuey
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when i was 17 I got followed by a mystery maestro one night -cacked my pants did 90 out of norwich city centre, ran 3 red lights and did some seriously shifty manuevuors to try and avoid him, sped along the ring road and seconds after i thought "i wonder if its an unmarked... curse word"
was met by 3 traffic cars blocking the road........
stopped and was searched then they said sorry to bother you and all went away...
weird I thought......
a week later mum says- had fun the other night did you?
what do you mean mum? (cue halo)
seems the guy running the police control room that night was my neighbour but one and had recognised the numberplate when they radio'ed it through and called them off...
god dammed gossiping women!!!!! ;D
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1987 fiat 126-nearly actually done! 1972 beetle - lawn art 2003 z4 daily-new wheels a comin! 2008 R56 Mini cooper "mental Mickey"
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Years ago (and I mean years...this goes back to about 1986) a mate of mine had a fairly rapid Mk1 Escort with a Pinto in it, we were off to the pub one Friday night when a bunch a curse word in a Mini came screaming up behind us, flashing the lights and trying to wind him up, attempting overtaking manouevres which made Steve have to put it up the kerb a couple of times to avoid a major accident.
Anyway after 10 minutes it worked, sufficiently wound up, Steve booted it round an island and came to rest facing them on their side of the road. We leapt out and ran at the Mini which was 5-up with lads (so thats 5 against 2....), at which point with much gear grinding and about 7000rpm the goon driving rammed it into reverse, and annihilated the front end of the Maxi directly behind him. Stupid b4stard.
We sat there on the kerb, laughing uncontrollably until they had exchanged insurance details, then beat the living s**t out of them.
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rtlkyuubi
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with the state of my car i doubt anyone would want to chase me as they will have no undented pannel ;D
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many years back on a bright sunny sunday afternoon when I had a mini as my daily, I was tooling along the dual carriageway at about 75. overtook a mkII golf, i noticed it because the drivers door wasnt shut right and he didnt have a seatbelt on. Anyway, he sped up and passed me, then gradually slowed down so I caught up and passed him, so he sped up.....this went on maybe 6 or 7times in total. I was drving at a constant speed, this guy was just either incapable of driving cosistantly or didnt like being passed by a mini. Anyway, Id had enough so I nailed it down a long downhill section, passed him and sped up to 80-90ish and held that speed for a few miles of downhill, then took my turnoff.
I was now on a-roads, but the sustained high speed had taken its toll on the poor mini and it was overheating. I had been messing with the timing earlier in the day to try advancing it slightly so it tended to run a bit hot. I pulled into a layby, popped the bonnet, got my wee toolbox out and retarded the timing slightly. As I was fiddling under the bonnet and waiting for it to cool down, the curse word in the golf pulled into the layby and piled out the car. He was massive. 9 foot 6 or something (may not be accurate) he was a big, tough-looking mofo. He came straight up to me very close and got between me and my car and was started to rant about being overtaken dangerously, using his bulk to try to intimidate me (I'm just wee) I lifted a screwdriver out the toolbox and his attitude changed...."err, how fast were we going back there mate, I think my speedo is broken..." then he buggered off. Very strange.
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1986 Panda 4x4. 1990 Metro Sport. 1999 Ford Escort estate.
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Worse I ever had was many years back now. Pulled out of a mate's drive onto the bypass outside his house on my motorbike, and then, without indicating, I got into the right hand lane. Just then some twonk in a Range Rover was fairly welting it down behind me and tooted the horn at me. Not really thinking I just flicked the vs at him. He then undertook me on a roundabout and skidded his car across both lanes of the bypass and tried to block me in. I fairly crapped myself and luckily there was a small road next to bypass which I got the bike onto and shot off with him chasing me. Went down a few alley ways and small roads to shake him off then sneaked round the back roads back to my mates. One hour later this nut case is parked by the bypass waiting for me to return and I'm hold up pooing blue lights. Then we remembered the air rifle in my mate's shed so armed up we hid in some bushes and took it in turns taking pot shots at his car. It was sort of surreal: frightening but funny as .22 pellets twanged off his car and he couldn't see who was doing it! Now if someone tries something daft with me on the road I just avoid eye contact and drive away slowly, it's just not worth the bother of getting involved in my opinion. Too many piddled or drugged up lunatics out there who carry knives etc.
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I once got chased by some guys a few years ago, I was in my Volvo 740 estate, I forget what they were in. They tailgated me for a few miles so I just slowed down and pulled over. They pulled alongside, looked in and sped off. Dunno if they thought they knew me or not but it was relatavely scary for me, not knowing what their intentions were or what was going to happen.
Ive also been chased by some guy in a reliant robin after me and a mate laughed at his car. I was walking down the pavement and this robin flew past steaming up the hill. Me and my mate burst out laughing and the guy did a 3 point turn and came back for us. Turned out it was some kind of hells angel type driving and after trying to run me down on the pavement a couple of times he chased me for a good 20 minutes while I dived over garden walls and hid, waiting for him to give up. He eventually cornered me and instead of killing me he said "your scared, yeah? serves you right" I think I was 16 at the time and remembered thinking how I was too young to die. The guy was really going for it, he nearly ran me down in his robin and I'm sure he would have killed me! Ive never been so terrified- that was the last time I ripped the p!ss out of someones motor.
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haha, some hilarious storys right there ;D, if slightly scary Not quite up to the levels of lunacism of some of thoes accounts but i found it quite funny at the time. Was at last years Hillman Imp Club National hanging out with some of the older guys who were avoiding the runs out insted going to tour Kents steam railways. So 4 of us pile into this Imp, the 3 other guys being, how to say, 'well built', any normal Imp simply wouldnt have coped with the weight of 3 rather beefy large blokes. Thankfully this was no normal Imp, looked stock but was running a 1040cc on twin Dellorto 40s, must have been close to 100bhp. Bombing it down the motorway at 90 when we meet one of thoes 1990s red Escort GTi efforts propelled by chav and his chavette. We overtake which he appears to take offence at (a little blue Imp with 4 people in it doing 90 must have looked ridiculous) so he speeds up and undertakes, we overtake, he overtakes slowing down in front of us so again we overtake to have him under/overtake and slow down on our front bumper. This just gets silly after about 5 mins, much honking of horns and Vs fly, Brain decides he had enough, sticks his foot down and we roar off doing god knows what speed (think i had my eyes closed holding onto the seat in front of me for dear life at this point). Just the idea of 4 quite 'large' old blokes shoe'horned (literaly, sardines in a can) in a stock looking Hillman Imp hoofing it around Kents motorways makes me smile even now
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Jun 22, 2008 14:17:37 GMT
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There are some idiots on the road, I was once rammed off the road by a Range Rover sport, because I wouldnt let him into the lane I was in (he'd tried to overtake just before a 2 into 1 merge) He then tried to block me off, but I was in a more nimble car and took off. He chased me home and started trying to kick my front door in! He was a burly block about 6' 4" - across the shoulders! I called the police and he scarpered. 2 weeks later, he appeared at my house again to apologise! This story is made funnier by what I was driving, heres a pic to keep this thread retro!
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Jun 22, 2008 14:25:39 GMT
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LankyTim, that reminds me of an incident at school when I was about fourteen. A mate and I were in the school grounds right by some traffic lights when two very hefty looking blokes rolled up in a very badly 'customised' Cambridge or Oxford and stooped at the red light. The car was hilarious, plastic bonnet bulge, handpainted bodywork and all kinds of stick on tat all over it. Anyhow my mucker and me burst out laughing at which point the driver AND passenger bailed out (with engine still running), jumped the fence and legged us all over school. It was actually plapping hilarious because we were young and fit and they were very hefty so couldn't keep up. In the end we'd get a good twenty yards ahead, stop for a minute, then shout 'come on fatties' at which point the chase would resume. No kidding it must have been going on for about twenty minutes before they finally gave up!
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rtlkyuubi
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Jun 22, 2008 14:42:36 GMT
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I was out with the family going for a meal on holiday once when about 4-5lads (13-17) was walking down the otherside of the road. Then this big hairy biker came past on this black very loud halley (sp?) Thats when the 'youfs' either laughed and pointed or threw something. The next thing I herd was a very loud screech, as the biker skidded around. Sparks flying as the foot peg scraped the gound, and started chassing the lads! There were too many of them to chase as they all split up but he chased this 1 lad up and down the road about 3 times, he even road on the pavement after him. Till he was pinned against this wall and the bikes front wheel. The biker said something to the lad and shot off down the road. And this wasnt like a back road or anything, it was in the town centre!
Ryan.
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Slightly worried/scaredstealthstylz
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Jun 22, 2008 14:49:00 GMT
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I once got chased by a guy in a Mondeo when I was driving my Clio because technically I pulled out on him, though as it was a blind junction, and he was doing at least 70mph in a 30mph limit it wasn't really my fault. I lost him after a minute or so though.
In my dads younger days he was taken to court for dangerous driving, after an unmarked police car (a Granada I think) with plain clothes coppers in chased him in his Celica (a mid 70s GT, OOOOOF). He curse word hiself as he was on his own, so he booted it and got away. Anyway he pulled up at home and the car was sat outside the house so he just booted it past them and kept going then went back later. The next time he was out in the car he got pulled and arrested for dangerous driving. Luckily he didn't take his solicitors advice to plead guilty, and defended himself in court and won. He got awarded damages too for wear and tear to the car.
Matt
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Jun 22, 2008 15:13:34 GMT
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lol some of these stories are hilarious but i can believe them because ive been in a couple my self lol unfortunately not all of them had a happy ending When i was 16 i was walking to my mates when a chavvy XR2i flew round a corner and shot up the road, is was just staring at it because it was a pointless manouvre. Then it screeched to a stop and the passenger door flew open, a guy leaned out and yells at me saying 'what you looking at?' at which point i flicked him the bird. It was then then he proceeded to rev up and turn round. I legged it round the corner, over a fence and hid under a car (I'm very skinny, but unfortunately was wearing a bright yellow puffer jacket!) . After about 3minutes of searching they dragged me from under the car and were about to beat me up. The asked me how old i was, i said 15 and they left me alone after swearing at me lol. Did shake me up a bit mind you, i though i was going to get pummelled lol Another one happened at a set of lights, i was going left and a guy from across the lights cut straight across me and I had to brake to avoid him (blue E-class merc). He pulled onto the opposite side of the road to go to the shops and i told him what a w**ker he was which made him a bit mad lol I carried on up the road and by the Police Station i was sitting at a red light (Sidcup has loads and loads of traffic lights) all of a sudden the merc screeches up behind me and the bloke jumps out and runs up to my car trying to open the door. He starts threatening me and abusing me and i kept telling him he cut me up! Then he was reaching in to grab me when i told him we were outside the Police station, as soon as he'd turned round the lights were green so i floored it away and left him standing there ranting. The fianl one ends badly though. I was at working and some chavs in a Suzuki Swift were following me/racing me. In the end i thought i'd lost them and parked up at home then a few days later my car was broken into on my drive and completely gutted (they left it half in the road half on the pavement as they couldnt start it. Stereo/cd changer, M3 mirrors, white dials, indicators, floor mats, cds, corner splitters, gear konb, etc all stolen and did loads of damage. Then they came into Halfords where i worked and started boasting about it in front of me (they got banned as they were thieving b*stards). Then the overtook me in a Nova and started shouting at me, i chased them and they turned into their estate and just sat there trying to goad me into the dead end. Nasty pieces of work they were. Eventually they went to prison after one of my colleagues sold them a Lancia Delta Turbo (untaxed not mot'd etc) and then told the police they were driving it around, the police chased them and they lunched it into a fence and lamp post and all got arrested lol. Was a mildly satisfying outcome, never got anything back though I must add though that most of these incidents happened whilst driving this: ;D my very first car 1.1 carb 5dr which i still have after 7 years of faithful service, been de chavved slightly over that time thankfully.......
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Jun 22, 2008 15:56:55 GMT
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had a problem like this when i was 18 driving my old fiat uno. was on the way home from town and came to a set of traffic lights and pulled up next to this chavvy red 5dr metro. driver and passenger saw my car was modified too (white stripe up bonnet and lancia thema alloys) he tried to race me off the lights for a bit of fun and beat me (probably a 1.3i metro and my uni was only 1.0i) he then chose to slow down and go in behind me and do some seriously close tailgaiting. a bit curse word off, i drove really slowly to show whos boss and then came to a stop up a hill as he was millimetres from my car he bumped into me and then proceeded to get out of the car with his mate! feeling pretty scared i drove off into a hurry down lots of lanes trying to lose him but couldnt being in such a slow car. i was forced to skip looking for other cars at junctions as they got out of the car trying to attack my car and me in it whenever i had to stop! i eventually managed to get onto a B road and onto the phone to the police to hand over the metro's details. before they got a chance to answer the phone the metro accelerated upto about 80mph (i was doing 60mph) and smashed into the back off my car! and then turned off at the next roundabout. they front of his car was demolished when i looked in my mirror. shortly after losing him, i pulled over to find that luckily my car had escaped unhurt! miracle! saw the low life a few months later at a petrol station. luckily i had a new car so wasnt recognised...by then his car still wasnt fixed with half a rebuilt front end! hahaha! serves him right! was also chased another time in my uno by a 406 coupe 3.0i v6! this was because my mate thought it would be funny to throw a banana skin as the guys head while passing him in traffic! the guy in the 406 then decided to turn around and follow us! luckily we went down some country lanes and managed to lose him as my uno was narrower than his car and was able to pass other traffic without reversing through the narrow lanes
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Jun 22, 2008 16:20:07 GMT
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On a similar note,
One evening some years ago, my friend and i were going home after a night out. We were in his works huge white iveco turbo daily. Anyway we were going down the road and noticed about 6-8 lads in their late teens early twenties walking down the road towards us. as we were just going past they through a bag of chips up the windscreen and we then suffered a barrage of coke/beer cans up the side of the van. As we drove on i could see them all rolling around laughing in the wing mirror.
So that was it, just up the road was an island which we went straight round and headed back up towards them. They were still too busy laughing to notice us driving up behind them. I told my mate to floor it and promptly wound down my window and stretched out my arm. It was one of those never again moments, as i caught the tallest one right on the ear as he turned to face his friend. He then did a rather dashing pirouette (at least 2 complete revolutions), swayed then fell flat on his face.
It was pure comedic heaven, at which point all his mates legged it in different direction and I smiled so much it hurt for the next 5 miles home....
Tony
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Jun 22, 2008 16:37:47 GMT
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i also had some fun chases when i was younger, one of the funiest was when i had a early 1600 twin carb mg maestro, this thing went like stink (we think, as the speedo never worked) anyway i accidently pulled out on a bmw 535, put my hand up to say sorry, but no he wasnt amused, ended up driving like rather quickly in the countryside until i had to stop at a junction, where him and two other jumped out with a baseball bat! i jumped off and procedded to drive like a right maniac, decided to give him some proper single track country lanage hopeing my car would out handle him, this went on for literaly 10 miles (thats alot around country lanes) until i hit some tricky bends once through checkin my mirror to see him flying through a hedge and rolling! i didnt go back which maybe wrong but i was only a nipper i did how ever call the police in me all new mobile fone (al la brick). good old maestro done herself proud tho. then another time, at band camp...... some rigth idiots in a xr2 which imo was stolen, decided to give me grief in my trusty volvo 240GLT estate, consisted of them overtaking me, gettin embarresed when i then overtook back, me slowing right down to a crawl then shooting off, i then let them overtake as i was gettin close to home, thought they would show me just how much power the curse word xr2 didnt have, but they started to really throw abuse at me, slammin the brakes on hard, flooring it, doi the same, after about 3 times, the penny dropped and i thought hmmmm volvo vs fiesta....lets make it hurt more, so the next time his brake lights popped on i had it floored in 2nd and gave him a right shafting up the wrong en, this obviously scared him and he started to make off, only by this time i was now having fun, so i gave him a few more, then overtook and floored it down some lanes, caught sight of his lights in the distance so in proper film styleee i gave the handbrake a birthday, slide the car sideways and blocked the road, full beam on wating for him to apear, the moment he relised what i had done he slams the brakes on, slide into the curb and a post, so i just trundled past laughing my off.
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persistant retro offender. 04 laguna load lugger alfa 159 lusso beast 82 austin allegro 82 mg metro
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Jun 22, 2008 17:00:06 GMT
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ive had a couple of things like this happen the first i was at a local tourist attraction (in the middle of nowhere) with 4 of my friends then while we were waiting in the car my friend (who was a little drunk) leaned in to a chav's car and said deary deary me! this upset them a little.. so they told their chavettes to get out of the car and wait for them while they tried to catch us it was quite obvious they weren't local (i am) so i thought i'd lead em on wild goose chase and ended up about 15 miles away through very twisty roads and lots of junctions id had enough by this time and floored it and lost them.. i'd have loved to be a fly on the wall when they finally got back to their chavettes... another time i was in leeds citty centre late at night stopped at traffic lights and someone leaned in and tried to pull me out of the car.. i'm qite a big bloke and fairly strong so i yanked his arm in so his neck was digging into the roof gutter by this time the lights were green so i set off holding on to him ... he learned to run sideways at 30....ish mph he was on his knees by the end of the trip... lol.
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never argue with an idiot... they'll drag you down to their level then beat you through experience.
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pac1982
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Jun 22, 2008 17:01:16 GMT
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This sort of thing seems to happen to me and my mates quite a lot and none of our cars are exactly what you would call chaved up. I’ve never really found it a problem as my God like driving skills combined with my local knowledge always ensure I get away with ease. Slightly different take on the situation as I was the chaser in this story but any way………. A while back my Black Cav saloon was sitting outside my house as I was getting ready to scrap it after a bus forced me off the road and completely mulled my passenger side front alloy and suspension, I had also cut the fuel lines to drain the full tank of fuel and put it in my new Clio 16v, anyhow the cav disappeared off my front early evening. Safe in the knowledge that the car didn’t drive in a straight line and was only running on the fuel left in the engine I went out to find it, after about 5 minutes I found it parked at a local playground, so I sat and waited, sure enough another silver cav turned up with blacked out windows, I went to confront them and they drove off at speed. Luckily my new Clio 16v was considerably faster than there 2.0 8v cav so I kept with them while on the phone to the police, suddenly the car hand braked to a stop in front of me and 5 huge chavs got out. Unfortunately there was only me and my mate who is stupidly small, so after shitting my self I had no choice but to get off, luckily the Police found em and they were all charged with car theft. These days I don’t go anywhere without my Billy Bat ;D
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Jun 22, 2008 17:23:10 GMT
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hahaha some awesome stories on here nothing ever happened to me like that only once driving thru notts on a saturday night my mate threw a mcflurry out the window at some bloke standing at the crossing, it hit his black shirt and exploded we screached off 400 yards down the road to the next lights, sat in the traffic i notice in the rear view the man legging it at full speed down the road between the cars like the scene out of terminator2, panicing i floored it the wrong way round an island and off into the night (note to everyone that was 8 years ago alot has changed I'm married and have a baby with it responsiblity and shame on the mcflurry throwing action of my friend) lol
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