CTS-V vs Camry (no vids)
10-03-2013, 06:21 PM
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CTS-V vs Camry (no vids) I’ll try to keep this short. Leaving PB going home on Grand ave doing 35mph in the LH lane. Someone in an IS 350 is at my door in the LH lane. They speed up, pull in front of me and match the speed of the slower car that was in their lane, dropping everyone’s speed down to about 25. (This happens a lot in CA. People feel the need to pace traffic because they can)
I flip on my blinker to make the right onto Ingram. The IS makes an abrupt turn but ends up in the outsdie lane behind me since someone pulled out the gas station and crossed over into their lane. The IS gets on my bumper zips around slows up again. Now I’m getting annoyed, but I’m still not going to waste my time racing and IS in Pacific Beach. By the time I get to corner of La Playa and Ingram, the IS is behind me again since the two cars in my lane made RH turns.
I’m now alongside a girl in Camry, right in front of Rocky’s (great burgers). My lane ends in 150 feet, but I figure I’ll just roll out and cross over and get away from the IS for a few blocks. Light changes and she launches, I’m almost a car behind and the IS is on her bumper. So I’m guessing it was just instinctive, I ride the clutch a little to get moving, slam second and get over in front before the 150 mark. Now I thinking, “Why am I racing a Camry?” So I slow back down to 35. Now she is right on my bumper until we get to PB drive. Then she rolls down the window, passes me on the inside giving me a princess wave and mouths “Whatever.” Then she turns on her hazards once she passes me.
I flash my brights and speed up to give her a thumbs up. When I catch up, she smiles, gives me the finger and then gets off at the next exit.
I flip on my blinker to make the right onto Ingram. The IS makes an abrupt turn but ends up in the outsdie lane behind me since someone pulled out the gas station and crossed over into their lane. The IS gets on my bumper zips around slows up again. Now I’m getting annoyed, but I’m still not going to waste my time racing and IS in Pacific Beach. By the time I get to corner of La Playa and Ingram, the IS is behind me again since the two cars in my lane made RH turns.
I’m now alongside a girl in Camry, right in front of Rocky’s (great burgers). My lane ends in 150 feet, but I figure I’ll just roll out and cross over and get away from the IS for a few blocks. Light changes and she launches, I’m almost a car behind and the IS is on her bumper. So I’m guessing it was just instinctive, I ride the clutch a little to get moving, slam second and get over in front before the 150 mark. Now I thinking, “Why am I racing a Camry?” So I slow back down to 35. Now she is right on my bumper until we get to PB drive. Then she rolls down the window, passes me on the inside giving me a princess wave and mouths “Whatever.” Then she turns on her hazards once she passes me.
I flash my brights and speed up to give her a thumbs up. When I catch up, she smiles, gives me the finger and then gets off at the next exit. 
10-03-2013, 07:04 PM
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OP that is such a good story. I really can't pick "one part" that I liked the best. But if you were to hold a gun to my head, I would go with the part with the videos. I just got off the phone with an armored truck company. They will be arriving in the morning to pick up my back up disk, which I just saved your story on to. There probably won't be much traffic, because I forwarded the police your story, and they agreed to escort the armored truck to its destination. At first the police chief didn't want to help, but then I guided his attention to the incredible videos that you embedded along with your story. I mean, the story was good enough. But as soon as I saw the videos that went along with it, I called my grandmother, who is blind and has Alzheimer’s disease to tell her. As far as her doctors in the nursing home are concerned, she is cured of all her ailments now that she heard your cool story. She is actually preparing to run a marathon this year now. Thank you OP.
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OP that is such a good story. I really can't pick "one part" that I liked the best. But if you were to hold a gun to my head, I would go with the part with the videos. I just got off the phone with an armored truck company. They will be arriving in the morning to pick up my back up disk, which I just saved your story on to. There probably won't be much traffic, because I forwarded the police your story, and they agreed to escort the armored truck to its destination. At first the police chief didn't want to help, but then I guided his attention to the incredible videos that you embedded along with your story. I mean, the story was good enough. But as soon as I saw the videos that went along with it, I called my grandmother, who is blind and has Alzheimer’s disease to tell her. As far as her doctors in the nursing home are concerned, she is cured of all her ailments now that she heard your cool story. She is actually preparing to run a marathon this year now. Thank you OP.
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10-03-2013, 11:10 PM
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If you've driven in southern cal, it wasn't about the IS or the Camry racing, is was about them being in front of me. People here do it entering the freeway, they do it if you turn on your blinker, they do it if you try to pass on the right on the freeway or in town.
No way I would of have video a random occurence like that or have a chance with her she was half my age.
No way I would of have video a random occurence like that or have a chance with her she was half my age.
10-04-2013, 12:06 AM
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Honestly, that's what I call a cool story bro. Such a riveting tale, I honestly copy and pasted it to word, saved on my hard drive, backed it up on a jump drive, drove to the bank, put the jump drive in the safe deposit box, and will leave it there until my kids turn about 12 (when they can actually state their age, and ask what it is I'm showing them), when I will pick it up, put it in an old USB drive reader and relay this cool story to them and tell them, "kids, this is what a cool story should look and sound like...not like the stories your generation tells." thanks op
10-04-2013, 04:37 PM
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Next time someone flips you off while youre in your car do it and you will see... The look they get after they freak out from it being so loud is priceless... I only do it when someone does dick moves while driving like flipping me off or cutting me off..
10-04-2013, 05:47 PM
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Hitting the rev limiter on a sport bike (with non-stock exhaust of course) and just letting it bounce scares the **** out of ppl. Especially when you do it right next to the open driver side window.