ever notice how people react to you differently depending on

[ttocs]

The car you drive? I have had the interior of the mustang gutted for the winter working on my most recent project. This weekend I was finally able to get it back together and on the road and I could not help but notice how, well people noticed me now. I have been driving a prius for the last 5 months. If/when people noticed or heard me there was no need for a double take, just a prius after all. now 2 days back into the mustang, I have had 4 different people want to race me, 2 people compliment me, and one mother yank her kid off of the sidewalk. I was driving out of my neighborhood tooling along at my normal 20mph at the most when I noticed a small child on the sidewalk on his bike with training wheels. The mother was 7-8 ft away from in in their yard watching him like a good mother should, he had a helmet on and everything(kudos from a fellow cyclist). When I got about 30-40 ft away I started to move over slightly into the other end as its a heavily suburban area and there was no traffic coming. About that time the mother sees me, runs to her child and yanks him off by his one arm and tosses him on the other side of her in the yard. My first thought that it was almost child abuse as hard as she yanked him off, I figured he mouthed off or something. But then as she got him on the other side of her, she looked back at me as though I was the reason she was doing it. I mean I was just crusin along, 2nd gear at 1700 rpms its like I was at 8krpms in 4th gear and still accelerating....

anyone else ever notice how people notice, or don't notice your cars?

[PhuckinGood]

I commute to work over here in various new cars, work in the motor trade, and as you say no one even bats an eyelid no matter how nice a car I am in.

On the other hand when I am driving my VW bus its constant, all other buses wave and flash, stop to help if your in trouble and let each other out at junctions. Non VW bus drivers beep at us, we get thums up out of windows, often takes me ages to get out of the petrol station as people come over for a chat and want to look inside, even had video being taken of the rims by a guy hanging out the passenger side of a car as it passes!

Its the vehicle of choice over here now and they go up in value each year

Glad your enjoying your car now its back on the road ...

[joerg]

Usally nobody turns his head when i´m on the road with the BMW but that changes once i´m cruising thru town with the Charger.
The first weeks driving it every season i the police stops me at least 3 times a week.

[ttocs]

that's a little funny as well as there is a nice trip I like to take my car on for shakedown runs. Its a nice country road out of the way and normally isn't a proble if I want to flog the car for a few. Saterday the first time having it out for months I was watching all the gauges when suddenly something started beeping. Was a new noise, never heard it before and it took me a little while to remember that the entire dash wiring mess started when I installed the bell escort 9500ci radar detector. It kept beeping and beeping for almost 2 mins to the point I thought it must be a fault or something. Finally it started to get stronger and stronger till finally a minivan with the cop 5 ft behind it passed me in the other lane and then it started to get weaker.

New radar detector is MUCH more sensitive then the old one. Thankfully the GPS will start to lock out the false alarms the 3rd time I drive by the same alarm freq... Cool ass radar detector and couldn't be any happier with the display as even with sun on it you can see it.

[dvnt88]

I'm in the same boat as ttocs, always get looks when I drive my bitch as the exhaust note is one you can't miss , unless the music is waaaaaaaay up. I get the "Let's race" shit all the time and just ignore the little douche bags .....but ....had to prove a point last week when I put an old man with a gold digger in the passenger seat in a Porche Cayman in there place . Asshole cut me off and drove away laughing about it until I pulled up at the light next to him ...gave him a head start when it went green and proceeded to hand his ass too him in front of his trophy occupant ....guess who wasn't smiling at the next light.

[LowandLoud]

I notice it all the time. Its part of the reason i like to drive an "out there" wild looking ride. Now my daily isnt stock (a dakota with a drop, 18's, hard tonneau, tint and smoked lights) but it is damn near invisible compared to the Toyota. I especially enjoy cruising with a group of buddies in their tricked out trucks. Its funny how something like adjustable suspension can make young and old alike stare with jaws dropped. Of course there are always the haters out there but F em, they only wish they had something half as cool.



LL

[ttocs]

so far I have not had a bad comment on my air ride set up and I am kinda surprised about it. I know how fun it can be to get a group together to drive. my mustang club in az would get cruises together with 40-50 cars and go up into the mountains. It was cool to see people in the small towns there literally stop what ever it was they were doing to watch the parade.

[LowandLoud]

I have been patient all winter/spring but this thread has got me itching to cruise. It still isnt quite nice enough here yet, and still some salt on the roads so it will have to stay put for now.

LL

[ttocs]

it got up to 80 today and rain is just starting to work its way in. Managed to find 2 excuses to go for a ride today, nothing like the post office twice...

[Kirghiz]

I had some looks yesterday, but not like you all with your sports cars. I was pulling a 20' trailer with my truck, windows down, and system wide open. People I was passing thought I was nuts.

[Bfowler]

i certainly react differently to prius drivers. i never let them merge. i cut them off even if i dont need to be in their lane. i have nothing but contempt for them. i dont do that to any other drivers :p

[Starunit10]

^^^Lmfao.

[Kirghiz]

I read somewhere that the word "Prius" means "vehicular castration" in Latin. Might not be true though.

[ttocs]

so I guess its not strange then that I get no respect in the prius, but the mustang will make momma's grab their kids from the sidewalk. I am either not noticed or given the finger. I can live with that

[LowandLoud]

Oddly enough, i have found i get LESS attention from cops while in my Toyota.

My theory is that anyone driving something that stands out so obviously couldnt possibly be doing anything illegal. I am not suggesting that i am doing anything illegal as i am fully insured, dont drink or smoke (or anything else like that) and i couldnt speed if i wanted to, lol. Its slow as shit!

LL

[ttocs]

not sure if its just being back in the mustang or if the new radar detector/laser shifter is just giving me that kind of karma but I have been a cop magnet every time I get in the stang now. Today I am waiting to make a left to get on the first big rd out of my neighborhood when a sheriff passed me going the same direction. I saw him to do a double take on the mustang. Then after I pulled out, and was obviously not catching up to him but he kept switching on his radar when there wasn't another car in sight. He must have checked me 10 times in the 5 miles I followed him, only 2 times was there a chance he was shooting someone else. New radar detector is getting a work out...

[LowandLoud]

New radar detector is getting a work out...

Money well spent!

LL

[ttocs]

the 9500ci while being one of the most expensive detectors out there was worth every penny when I found it for $400 used. Its amazing how much of a difference the GPS makes and of course who would not like laser shifters? The 3rd-4th time I took it out on Friday it suddenly started making an new beeping noise shortly after going through a retail place where the alarms always set one off. When I looked down to see what the beep was it said "locking out" and now anytime I drive by that location, that alarm signal will be ignored. Now if a cop set up shop in their parking lot though it will still recognize a new signal to let me know that it is a real radar. How cool is that that from now on those locations that always set it off I will be able to drive right through enjoying my tunes and not have to worry about the false signals?

[Kirghiz]

the 9500ci while being one of the most expensive detectors out there was worth every penny when I found it for $400 used. Its amazing how much of a difference the GPS makes and of course who would not like laser shifters? The 3rd-4th time I took it out on Friday it suddenly started making an new beeping noise shortly after going through a retail place where the alarms always set one off. When I looked down to see what the beep was it said "locking out" and now anytime I drive by that location, that alarm signal will be ignored. Now if a cop set up shop in their parking lot though it will still recognize a new signal to let me know that it is a real radar. How cool is that that from now on those locations that always set it off I will be able to drive right through enjoying my tunes and not have to worry about the false signals?

I'd love to get one of those. Radar detectors are illegal in Virginia though, so I'd have to dismantle it and hide the radar unit up in the grill or something, run a wire back from there, and permanently install the rest of it in the dash and make it look like a trailer controller or something. Virginia sucks.

[ttocs]

can't load pics up now because of the hospital sever, but did you see mine in the build page? I mounted the display in the factory clock location and the controls in a coin holder in the consol and the speaker in the former stock tweeter location I was not using. Its a super small display that is easy to hide or you can even just mount the 3 color leds to do the job. I actually mounted the led to the top of mu gauge cluster shrowd so that it pointed down towards the gauges. Its super easy to see but only if you are lookin really. 9500ci is also completely invisible to detector detectors. The biggest give away on my car that I have one though is on the outside. Two laser shifters down in the lower grill and the radar sensor in the middle