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Simple. They are a female dog.

Thanks guys
It was at a caltex where the 4c saving exists.

The guy was just this little idiot in a pinstripe suit and tie - obviously too important to wait 10 extra seconds.

I see people sitting for half an hour waiting for fuel - they burn more than they save. If you wait half an hour in line to save 4c per litre, you are effectively 'paying' (well saving) yourself $3 per hour.

I like the school mothers who park over the crest of blind hills in the BMW x series - asking for trouble

Hi Tyler,

When you get an idiot like this you then walk around the car and check the tyres, then wash the windscreen,adjust the mirrors, all legitimate tasks you need to perform for the safe operation of your vehicle. By this stage he will have reversed out and driven off. A lot of this depends on the vehicle you are in, I can guarantee he would not behave in this way if you were in a Landcruiser or truck. A neighbour of mine is a brickie, he has always had 4WD's but he ended up driving his sons BMW M3 for 12 months, nice car but he couldn't believe the attitude difference of other drivers on the road. Cars would pull out in front of him, cut him off ,on coming vehicles would squeeze him off the road, so he bought another Cruiser and no more of these problems

Hi Norm

I agree, they never do that when you are in a Cruiser or truck. Most of my mates drive 70 series Cruisers or 200 series or Patrols or Navaras. One had a tesla cut in infront of him dangerously close 6 months ago. Over the next bit of highway, he got infront and then away from the set of traffic lights he covered it in diesel soot.

Thats probably why no one messes with Cruiser drivers haha

However, if you drive a 2006 Hyundai Tuscon, you are fair game. And if you happen to be in a 1983 Camira, they physically go out of their way - like jumping in front and hitting brakes

I bet if you showed them the muzzle of a double barrel shotgun, you would get instant perfect behaviour like in this scene from The Beverly Hillbillies movie.

That's Gold !!!

but sadly it's getting more and more like this every day.

G'day everyone,

Haha that's a good one Mowerfreak!

Gees Tyler you don't see many old Camira's around here much now.

But that story about the diesel leaving soot all over the Tesla reminds of my mates old black XB coupe with the old twin exhaust out the back. If someone parked up too close in a car park. He was like ok this car is going to get sprayed with 2 black soot rings on their front bar. Started the beast up, a few good hard revs before driving off...lol Another good one was when he parked it with the back against a nice clean white carpark wall. Nice huge black soot rings left on the wall.

I once drove an old 1982 Mitsubishi Colt that always ran richer than it was meant to but it was great when you wanted to blast the car behind you with plumes of black unburnt fuel at the touch of the accelerator pedal...lol It was best doing this at night as the smoke plumes are hilarious and that thick that the car following too closely or tailgating has to slow down and back off because of the smoke and i'm assuming because of the smell...lol

I did it once to a tailgater going up a slight hill years ago, I thought ok you want to sit on my rear bumper, it's time for you to have some old school rich running carby foot to the floor smoke plume! I swear I looked in my rear vision mirror and all I could see was a massive cloudy smoke haze down the road and the car behind me backed right off and was going slowly probably trying to breath and also to see through the smoke!

Ah yes I love old school cars they are the best!

Cheers!

Don't forget the Maxwell Smart windscreen washer fluid to the car behind trick. When they're close enough and there is wind, they will receive it too.
One time a bully in a Landcruiser sat on my tail as we were diving into the Sydney Harbour Tunnel. I gave him a light show and put the flashers on and activated my reverse lamps a few times (before the gearbox could get into reverse for rea!). Man did this get a reaction. He swung around my left and stuck his head out blurting unintelligible obscenities before speeding off ahead of me well over the 80km/h limit I was sitting on. He didn't seem to realise that you are not required to move left in an 80km/h or under zone, unless there are signs saying so.

Ha good one Mowerfreak!

Here's a funny one I have been in traffic behind this tradie and his work ute 2 times down the road here and when I see these stickers on the rear tray it makes me laugh. He has both these stickers on the back of his ute. I wonder how those people that he mentions on those stickers feel when they are near him on the road? LOL!

I searched the net for these stickers tonight and I think I found the place where this guy bought them from! lol

Car Stickers

Cheers!

Hi Converse & MF

I will never forget the time I started the Camira (before I had it running right - various auto choke and mixture issues) and had to give it a slight rev on start up.

Only problem was Mum had her brand new Sheridan bed sheet hanging on the fence behind. Or smoking out the house when the choke stuck on. They made 84 odd thousand JB camiras, and there are 3 regulars getting around here.

A couple of years ago, a girl with her Mum in the car park knocked the bumper with her trolley. The mother told her not to worry since it is just 'some old piece of s**t'. I got in and gave it a rev whilst she was standing between the cars - gave her a fright.

Last month, I went for petrol and a clown in a late 90's Z3 BMW decided I wasn't fast enough off the lights - raced around on the inside just before form one lane. He's redlined in first... and missed the gear change - crunch grind.

And I get sick of telling auto parts store staff 'Camira, not Camry' - a mechanic once installed a camry thermostat into the housing with a sledge hammer.
Has much more power since I fixed that since the inlet manifold isn't full of 90 odd degree hot water

That reminds me of the colt I used to have, it always had an issue with the choke when it was cold. Would run way too rich and maybe also the valve stem seals were a bit worn, but on cold start up it was a bit like a Victa 2 stroke, loud noise smoke plumes etc. It would pretty much smoke down the street a bit like Uncle Buck's movie car..lol. But once it was warm and the choke was off it ran fine...lol

Speaking of serves though, I once was helping on a delivery ute in one of the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne with all these bike lanes now on the left side of the road next to parked cars. Anyway this was my first time on this delivery and pick up run and I was on the passenger side of the ute and I opened the door, a cyclist was coming in the bike lane and stopped near the door, yelled some abuse like "you effin c**t, check for bikes coming before you open ya effin door, effin idiot!, anyway I thought fair enough I was in the wrong and luckily nothing happened to him and he just kept on riding. I didn't fire back as he pretty much just kept riding away, maybe he was late to go get a smashed avo on some rye and a soy latte down the road with some other lycra wearing posse members? lol

Cheers!

They're called MAMIL'S
Middle aged men in lycra.

I have another name for them haha

Riding elderly person training in lycra -REPTIL

Seems to be a few ex-Colt owners on here...
Since I sold mine i now have heaps of time to work on mowers! (Same thing really except my mowers dont have eight speed gearboxes)
On tailgaters, the best way to stop them tailgating is to do what I do.
Pull over to the left and let them past... Most modern car speedo's are not accurate. They legally can read up to 10% fast, but zero % slower then you are doing.
So you could think you are doing 100kph and you may be doing only 90!
I avoided this in my current car by getting the speedo calibrated. It is amazing how slow most people drive! I can now drive AT the limit (within the envelope of safety) and I simply dont get booked. Its also amazing how many drivers slow down for speed cameras when they are already under the limit. If they slow down "just in case" get your speedo calibrated. Its worth it for peace of mind!

You can use the GPS speedometer built into GPS navigators and note the difference and print out a Dymo label to stick on the dash to remind you how much you can go over the indicated speed.