I'm pretty sure that I was almost crunched by a Tractor and Trailer on the way to work today. Yeah, it was very scary, I'm sure the Toyota Corolla was probably worried for me. It was just after exiting a toll booth and the Tractor had no idea that I was on his left. He started to merged quickly into my lane when I was past the point of no slowing down. I accelerated from like 40 to 80 hammer down until I was good and clear. I'm pretty sure that my Max must have looked like a silver rocket with a trail of silver mist (or should I say Sterling Mist) water behind it. If I had been riding in anything less who knows I might not be here to post. Who was it that ever said speed kills, I say speed saves..lol. After I went by him and was at a safe distance, I observed that he was driving very erratically and almost got the Corolla too. If I had had my cell phone I would have reported him.

 

I agree 100%

 

This is exactly how a fast car can save you.

 

glad nothing bad happened.....drive safely....speed accordingly

 

I'm usually very good about not speeding. Today, I just had a great excuse.

 

Wowsers, glad to hear you're okay.

 

Ditto!

 

Glad to hear you're alright

I've had to pull off similar moves while navigating through the surrounding burroughs and thruways of NYC, and it's defintiely an adrenelane(sp?)rush

 

Imagine if you had a sc... you wouldn't have been worried at all!

<peanut gallery chanting>
Get it! Get it! Get it! Get it! Get it!!!
</peanut gallery chanting>

Glad to hear you're alright.

 

Yeah and I might have saved my left tires from 20 lashes on the rumble strip too. What do you think my wife will say to this one?

"Hey honey I need to order a Stillen Super Charger so that when bad drivers on the Highway try to run me off of the road I can just blow by them like they are standing still. Wouldn't you feel bad if I got hurt because you didn't want to spend a measley $3500 on a Super Charger for me?"

Do you think that she would fall for it?

 

Try it tonight and tell us what the outcome is (after sleeping on the couch). Hehehehe.....

 

For an equal amount in shoes?????

 

Unfortunatly, she caught on to my wacked sense of humor about a year after we got married. Now when I ask her questions like these she just looks at me and laughs.

 

Sigh...it's sad how easily we get brushed off by our wives when it comes to our Maxes.

Lucky Kev...you shouldn't have that problem right?

 

I guess I am lucky. Only minor problems for me.

 

Ohh..nice wheels hehe

 

Ahh! The good 'ol "Catholic Guilt Trip" (I can work guilt like Clinton can work a cigar! ) Got the Catholic Guilt Complex from my parents. When I was a kid, they could make me feel guilty for breathing fresh air when other's were breathing smog.

Glad to hear you're OK.

 

Thanks... I'll have a set just like those pretty soon.

 

He he, now that you put it that way I'm starting to feel guilty just for thinking about trying to make her feel guilty.

 

LOL!

You should feel guility about feeling guilty for thinking about trying to make her feel guilty.

Actually, I was beginning to feel guilty about sending this to you. Then I said to myself: "punkdork would do it"

He is the afterall.

 

I'm not getting blamed for your shortcomings... sheesh!

 

I don't feel so guilty now that I know you feel guilty too!
Thanks for taking some of my guilt away. Just think If I really do put the old guilt trip on the wife tonight. We'll be able to start all over again tomorrow with a brand new guilty thread. What should we call it? I feel guilty that my car must have looked like a speeding silver bullet....lol.

 

....or you could have something similar to the old Lite Beer Commercials....

blow-er....ni-trous....blow-er....ni-trous....blow-er....ni-trous....tur-bo....ni-trous....blow-er....ni-trous

 

Your point?

Whose your buddy? Whose your pal?

 

Now you got me motivated to go shoot my BLACK "ALMOST" new LOOKING max.
Roger

 

Awww...thanks guys. We need a :blush: smilie. When are you getting yours Kev? And are you going with 18X8s?

BTW, GXEme...glad you're okay, kinda forgot to mention that little detail.

 

I'm going to "borrow" Jane's set for a while.

 

Share, share, share alike.
What is Jane going to do with her Max?

 

She'll be borrowing my wheels for the time being.

 

Careful Jane! You might not get them back! olice:

 

 

Did Jane just lay the smack down on Kev?

 

Hehehehe... "borrow" Hehehehe...

 

can i "borrow" your car then???

BTW, glad the original poster is ok from the accident, i had a lil similar thing b4 but buy a tractor trailer....damn guy changed lane right away after signaling and i guess i was in his blind spot, luckily i saw him, i honked and moved to my left(thankfully there was a left) because he still moved ova, didn't think he heard my honking.....damn #@$^%&*&^%$#@$%

 

Guilty as charged.

 

Maybe since my wife wouldn't let me get a 5-spd because she refuses to learn, I could talk her into a s/c??? Yeah right...well, it's fun to dream.

 

Not quite a Maxima story, but close...

I had a similar experience in my '93 NX2000 a few years back. I was driving in morning rush hour on the Interstate, bumper to bumper traffic, everyone going about 60. The car in front of me was this big 80s American car, and he was following the car in front of him too close. The car in front of him braked hard, and he slammed on the brakes trying to stop. He lost control and spun around 180 degrees, looking directly at me. I'm going too fast to stop in time, so I cut hard right into the emergency lane. My tail pops out, then back into place, and I pull back on the road and keep on driving.

Crazyest driving experience I've ever had. If I hadn't been in a car with such good handling, I probably would have had a wreck. Love my NX.

 

Glad to hear you made it out fine. <preaching>If you had a decent following distance this wouldn't have happened though. Anyone who complains about the person in front of them stopping too quickly needs to increase their following distance. It's such a simple way to prevent yourself from getting into an accident.

I get soooo sick of being tailgated. When driving heavy traffic at ~60mph I can look around me and most of the cars have less than two car lengths following distance. That just scares me.

I drive like every other car is an enemy... I don't want to be close to them. If that means I have to slow down... so be it (normally it means hitting the gas pedal ).</preaching>

 

How come we have a speed limit in US on our highways. I just dont get it. In other countries they dont have speed limit and they have less car accidents than we do here. Why not just have no speed limit this way less accidents occur since cars will be all at great distances betwen each other. If some grandma wants to go slow thats just fine, with no speed limit u will pass her at 120 mph.