Thread: bad driving hotrodder in a 32 Tudor

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I will climb in on this too..What whip has said is accurate,,in fact I probably know that road even better than him,,but thats of no real consequences...While I dont know the trucker,I do know the truck in question has in excess of 640hp on tap,,and if you listen to the soundtrack,he only downshifts twice as he's passing the first truck..Yes,he could have waited behind the first truck,and held up even more traffic...Its a hard one..but I dont see too much wrong with what he did..And,yes,,I do know the 32 driver,,and quite honestly,I didnt think he would do that..Incidentally,,that was the weekend of our pre 49 nats,,He is a member of the hosting club..and there were 200 hotrods some miles back behind him..Unfortunately,we are a nation of impatient drivers,,and when people get stuck behind a truck,on our roads,,its very much a ''do or die''process,,more like ''do and die''actually..as they want to pass you where there is nowhere TOO pass,,often into oncoming traffic.. Most of the countries truckers are good,,courteous drivers,who average 2500-3000 km a week..(we have driving hour restrictions),and I have no probs sharing the road with them,,after all,I drove (small) trucks myself for a few years..But it is upsetting when they get blamed for something stupid,like this..
Incidentally,most truckers will signal car drivers,or whoever else is behind them,to pass when its safe,and usually only let a half dozen cars build up behind them,,but on our highways,there is quite often nowhere where a truck and trailer can pull over safely,,and this aggravates the impatience of a great many..

Hell, they're all driving on the song side of the road.

Originally Posted by dmw56

Hell, they're all driving on the song side of the road.

cleaning beer off of monitor screen

I erased my next comment. Wonder what happened 10 minutes beforehand?
Happy rodding to all. Hopefully this won't happen again. Kinda gets people a little uptight.

I'll put my 2c worth in here too.
I don't know that particular road as well as Whip and Robin do, but I have driven over it, and their comments about the road are bang on the mark.
I too know the driver of that '32, and the absolute stupidity of his actions surprised me; I wouldn't have thought he would do something like that.
And as Roger noted; that car is instantly recognisable anywhere.
He was in the wrong...no two ways about it.
Stupid stupid boy.

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looks like he is going viral. by this time next week he will be know around the world as the worst streetrodder alive and well deserved.

rude idiot

would you believe there is a so called streetrodder defending this guy.

Originally Posted by shine

would you believe there is a so called streetrodder defending this guy.

Shine,bud..there are a lot of rodders defending the guy..Mainly because,as I said before,,the average driver doesnt like being stuck behind a truck,,and therefore,they are deemed a nuisance..They seem to forget just how much of their everyday needs are delivered by truck in this country..As you can see in the video,others on the road are willing to put their own lives at risk by doing dorky passing manoevres to get around Mr streetrodder of the year,as well..
DMW56,,you might have a point there,,will see if we can change to driving on the other side.....Yeesh,,you think its bad now,,can you imagine what it would be like if we changed to the right hand side of the road......

Originally Posted by shine

would you believe there is a so called streetrodder defending this guy.

I have not seen this anywhere else but here, but apparently it's gaining a wide following. Shine, where are you seeing "...a so called streetrodder defending this guy"? Just curious.

I saw comments going back over a month ago about this some where---looked like a major multicar crash was just barely averted right after the finger----thought I might even have detected some tire smoke off the suv rear tires

Funnily enough guys,I had asked on the NZ hot rod site where this was discussed, to what sort of reprimand the guy was to face through his own club and or the NZ association, as we are such a small country of 4 million people with approximately 3 to 4 thousand rodders,this incident certainly reflects on all of us. But sadly apart from saying it has been seen too,it appears that unless you are in that club or know the guy personally, it is to be swept under the mat and forgotten.

He might be talking about my comment. "Looking straight ahead"
I don't know what happened. I do know that there are two sides to the story. The T driver really got.....ticked off. In which made it sound really bad, but hey. I once was a driver. Back then you use to get tired with being able to get by with regulations. Back then! As for the person who stuck the hand out. Well, we still don't know the rest of the story. As Paul use to say.......
Hopeing someone will come up with it. Look at the time.

there is no defense in this. not only did the truck have to slam on it's brakes so did the following truck and cars. what if the truck jack knifed ? maybe taking out several cars and killing some people. with out this tape it would just go down as another trucker out of control kills family of 5 . the hwy was built for Commerce not joy riding. the second truck had plenty of power to pull the grade unlike the first truck.

Originally Posted by shine

. the hwy was built for Commerce not joy riding.

I don't know about New Zealand, but the Interstate system in this country was not built for commerce, it was built for the military, at least that was Eisenhower's intention. I'm not standing up for the idiot in the video, but there are a lot of arrogant OTR drivers on the highways today, not at all like it was in the 60's.