Pickup trucks, happened again

Originally Posted by Inspector71

Not to belabor a previous post, but when I moved from California to Missouri with my 86 Rx7, I noticed that pickup trucks would occasionally tailgate, and I mean so close I could see the driver's teeth, and sit on my bumper in the morning shining headlights into my cabin. They were so close I could see shadows from the hair on my hands. Over the years, individuals I met, including my neighbors, allowed they did not like "Furin" cars especially Japanese sports cars. The same happened with my 09' 370Z. From December 2014 to November 2015, I drove a Dodge Challenger. Didn't happen once. Now I'm back in a Z, only one month and the following story has happened twice.
On Saturday I was driving up my street, a quiet residential neighborhood with a speed limit that goes from 35 to 25. I was on the way to the woods to go hiking. At the one stop sign on my long street, I saw a large black vehicle approaching at a high rate of speed. I pulled out and continued on at 35. Within seconds, he was on my bumper. He raced up to me at a high rate of speed and stopped inches from my bumper. And he stayed there. I looked in the door side mirror. It was a primer black Chevy, stacked quad headlights, pickup with a lift kit and no front plate. The driver was late teens/early twenties, short blonde hair, ball cap. I drove about an eighth of a mile and slowed (with signal) to turn onto a side street. The driver of the Chevy pickup laid on the horn. I was pissed and yelled "What's your problem redneck!" He honked again and gave me the finger.
I'm an older guy and old school. I will keep my cell phone (a flip phone...I told you. old) out of my pocket and on to call the police next time. Any suggestions? This was in Blue Springs Missouri on Roanoke drive between highway 7 and Adams Dairy

Originally Posted by Inspector71

Not to belabor a previous post, but when I moved from California to Missouri with my 86 Rx7, I noticed that pickup trucks would occasionally tailgate, and I mean so close I could see the driver's teeth, and sit on my bumper in the morning shining headlights into my cabin. They were so close I could see shadows from the hair on my hands. Over the years, individuals I met, including my neighbors, allowed they did not like "Furin" cars especially Japanese sports cars. The same happened with my 09' 370Z. From December 2014 to November 2015, I drove a Dodge Challenger. Didn't happen once. Now I'm back in a Z, only one month and the following story has happened twice.
On Saturday I was driving up my street, a quiet residential neighborhood with a speed limit that goes from 35 to 25. I was on the way to the woods to go hiking. At the one stop sign on my long street, I saw a large black vehicle approaching at a high rate of speed. I pulled out and continued on at 35. Within seconds, he was on my bumper. He raced up to me at a high rate of speed and stopped inches from my bumper. And he stayed there. I looked in the door side mirror. It was a primer black Chevy, stacked quad headlights, pickup with a lift kit and no front plate. The driver was late teens/early twenties, short blonde hair, ball cap. I drove about an eighth of a mile and slowed (with signal) to turn onto a side street. The driver of the Chevy pickup laid on the horn. I was pissed and yelled "What's your problem redneck!" He honked again and gave me the finger.
I'm an older guy and old school. I will keep my cell phone (a flip phone...I told you. old) out of my pocket and on to call the police next time. Any suggestions? This was in Blue Springs Missouri on Roanoke drive between highway 7 and Adams Dairy

Originally Posted by Inspector71

I think this reinforces how careful we all need to be. I used to have a bike and loved riding it but (I was living in California) it seemed too many drivers wanted to kill people on motorcycles. It got so bad I sold it. Ironically, on the way home yesterday, I had a Ford F350 pull right up on my bumper at a light with every light on possible. It was 3 p.m. not dark. His lights were so bright I had to turn my mirrors up. Diving in front of a motorhome and hitting the brakes is crazy. I guess people don't consider how hard it would be to slow one of them or an 18 wheeler. My concern is the people who have some problem with sports cars. The guy I described Saturday didn't just tail gate me, he came racing up at me doing close to 60 in a 35 zone and got so close even a tap of my brakes and I get hit. Those people shouldn't be on the road

Originally Posted by Inspector71

I think this reinforces how careful we all need to be. I used to have a bike and loved riding it but (I was living in California) it seemed too many drivers wanted to kill people on motorcycles. It got so bad I sold it. Ironically, on the way home yesterday, I had a Ford F350 pull right up on my bumper at a light with every light on possible. It was 3 p.m. not dark. His lights were so bright I had to turn my mirrors up. Diving in front of a motorhome and hitting the brakes is crazy. I guess people don't consider how hard it would be to slow one of them or an 18 wheeler. My concern is the people who have some problem with sports cars. The guy I described Saturday didn't just tail gate me, he came racing up at me doing close to 60 in a 35 zone and got so close even a tap of my brakes and I get hit. Those people shouldn't be on the road

Originally Posted by Firebase99

Product of generations of inbreeding. Education is the key to the future.

Originally Posted by Inspector71

The last two posts are hysterical. Oh man, that would do the trick. I was thinking about hooking up a universal windshield washer fluid tank, motor of course, and fill it with buck rut urine or something like that and spray it into their grill (and hopefully up through the vents) but the flame idea is way better.