MGB: Do you drive more aggressive in the B?

I admit I do.... My daily driver (Nissan Pick up) I drive cautious use my turn signals, turn the lights on when it overcast, let other cut in front of me etc.... Then get behind the wheel of the B and I am changing lanes like a fool, diving at least 8 miles over the speed limit, get angry when a slow poke is in front of me.. etc. Not sure why I do this it must be the power plan under the hood...;)

I think it just feels like I do. Not sure I would call it aggressive though.
RS

These cars need to go. Not that there is all that much power under the hood....

Not more aggressively but quite a bit faster on challenging roads that I know well.

I've been known to gas it a little around certain roads, gotta admit its fun!

I drive a vehicle the way it's designed to be driven. Slower in trucks, faster in sports cars.

Then again, 60 MPH in an MGB feels a lot faster than 60 MPH in a pickup truck.

x2 on Steve S

I drive way more relaxed when I'm out in the B. When I'm in my Baja I'm going where I gotta go, doing what I gotta do. I drive way faster, more concerned with making time, looking for openings in traffic, getting stuff done.

When I'm in the B its 90% of the time for fun or running errands around town and I'm not on the clock. I'm much more likely to let other cars in front of me. I still enjoy a spirited drive on good roads...but more relaxed about it all.

Generally I just find a groove. I drive it to work a lot which is rural country roads with little traffic. Very good driving, through the gears like harmony. Just right.

Although, I was behind a ricer the other day at a stop light. We were both turning left in a wide turn. He hit it taking off but I took him in the outside lane. As I did the back in broke loose. on dry pavement. I had to back off a little but still took him easily then backed off. It surprised him I'm sure.

No I'm scared to death. I look at rocker panels all day long. I'm thinking of doning a helmet. mg

Yep, and it is a lot of fun to drive than my other two.

For sure! We have a lot of nice country roads with good pavement and sweet corners and I look forward to driving them right. The only bummer is that anyone ahead of me is easily caught up to and I used to get frustrated about it because there are no passing zones on my two favorite stretches. Now I just figure that it isn't my time to let her rip and relax and enjoy the ride.

I feel like I'm driving fast and aggressively, but anyone looking at me is thinking "Whose the old guy in the pokey little car?" It seems a lot faster in a small, low car than in a high, big car. I never challenge trucks, SUV's and the like. I'd be squashed like a bug sooner or later.

I like to drive as if I'm driving fast, lots of shifting, hard turns on winding roads, but I don't speed since the car and roads don't allow for that, and on the freeways I just stay with the flow of traffic mostly and don't even do much passing (Well, old ladies and mommies with kids get passed). I'm just kind of "skeered" of the big trucks that could run over me.

NEVER drive more aggressively in the B unless I've been [s]drunking[/s] [s]imbibing[/s] [s]indulging[/s] or whatever it is.

YES! pretty much like steve s said.

Compared to the mini van, yes. Compared to the MazdaSpeed6, no. Impossible to drive a B like that. B's just lack the power, and too primitive a suspension.

I do demand everything the B can provide, while almost never pushing the Mazda.

Oh yeah !!!! In the mountain roads, I basicly attack them, I drive probably a bit more aggressive than I should. Even around town, I wizzed thru traffic, I drive the thing a good bit of the time like it's a race car on the street, probably wrong, but it feels so good :)

What Hap said. . .

I proud of the fact that I can get my B up to 70mph and I think the fact that it runs every time I go to drive it (knock on wood.) also
is by the grace of god...I love my little B
I love my B and I know that I am a damn aggressive driver in it, because of the fact that its so tiny you have to, and you have to drive your B, Not
let your B drive you. I can't tell how much I hate winter and driving my Trecel for the first time in what seems forever, and I am yanking the steering wheel
everywhere because I'm not used to powersteering. Yup you have to drive aggressively with a B because it will drive you if you don't.
I love taking her into WI because the rds are better than in IL (not so many pot-holes) and its pretty much empty on the back rds just landscape nice turns and all
oodles of fun

I drive like a maniac all the time apart from in town.

I've found the limits in the TA. I think I'll find my limit before I find the limit in the Audi.

Can't speak for the B as I haven't got it sorted yet but once it is I'll drive it hard in the same way as the others.

Owen, you and I must meet one day, hopefully in our cars. You know, the 'real' ones. ;)

By the way, where are your running boards?

That would be good, Steve. Your place rather than mine as it's warmer. :D

When I bought the car there were no running boards on it. When I rebuilt the body in the 80s I got a load of parts, including running boards but whoever had repaired them had made them straight on the body side and they wouldn't fit the curve of the body. Fitting them is one of those jobs I've been going to get around to for years. I can't be bothered now.

Well, if the economy hadn't gone south, I would have been touring through your neighborhood in a TC next year. The exchange rate is in your favor so I guess you'll have to come out here after all.

I'm not aggressive. I'm assertive. :D

[quote="John D. Weimer"]
Not more aggressively but quite a bit faster on challenging roads that I know well.[/quote]
X[sup]2[/sup]

More aware? Always. More aggressive? Sometimes. We have lots of hills and curves around here, and they are tons of fun in the B. But so are leisurely cruises along the river, just taking in the scenery. Guess it depends what mood I'm in...
;)

Compared to how I drive my daily driver Miata; I drive the MGB like my grandmother. Afterall, it is 45 years old, has single line brake system, orginal steering wheel that is huge my modern standards, small brake lights that aren't all that bright by modern standards, no 4 way flashers, no reversing lamps, except for lap belts, no safety features at all, etc.

My driving habits with the B are fairly conservative. I do have my moments but all in all I'd say that I baby it ...probably more than i should. Now my other "toy" car is an '03 SVT Cobra. It's a factory supercharged car with all the usual bolt-ons. With that car it's a different story. It just begs to be beaten on and responds quite well to regular floggings. It's loud and obnoxious...low slung with huge sticky meats and the whine of that supercharger at WOT sounds like the world is coming to an end. My mission when behind the wheel of the Cobra is to embarrass as many 'vette owners as possible. Click the pic for a dyno vid of the Cobra:

[URL=http://s16.photobucket.com/albums/b36/roadstr6/?action=view¤t=Copyofcobradyno1.flv][/URL]

I just like watching my son sit in my '63 (on Jackstands) going "Vroom Vroom"

[quote=Speedracer]
Oh yeah !!!! In the mountain roads, I basicly attack them, I drive probably a bit more aggressive than I should. Even around town, I wizzed thru traffic, I drive the thing a good bit of the time like it's a race car on the street, probably wrong, but it feels so good :)[/quote]

What he said, I've built the GT to be a lot of fun zooming around, it's even more fun now St. Louis is installing roundabouts. :)

roundabouts>rotary>traffic circle

thats fun..i was on one down by new Orleans was on the second level , unique to me

as i recall the ones in italy the traffic entering had the right of way..

they were exciting until the grid locked then one needed ear plugs for the florid language and hoen honking...

I have to drive faster to keep up to the soccer mom's vans. ;)

DrewM, I'm with you. I'm in the city and drive it every day and on the interstate a lot. Don't like these 18 wheelers speeding and jerks slipping in front of you when there's only a car's length space between you and the car in front. Also, the cars that are on your rear. Lots of pickup trucks down here, too; they're speed demons as well. Then ,there are the potholes (as opposed to the before-mentioned other holes). Streets here are awful, suspension just can't take it.

[quote=beparr]
Streets here are awful, suspension just can't take it.[/quote]

Actually the suspension can take it, these cars are tough - it's aging human joints that object to the potholes more than the car. :D

[quote="The Wiz"]
[quote=beparr]
Streets here are awful, suspension just can't take it.[/quote]

Actually the suspension can take it, these cars are tough - it's aging human joints that object to the potholes more than the car. :D[/quote]
I'm at this moment having new motor mounts installed. This is the second time since 12/05. In fact, this guy said he is going to weld the angles on to keep them from cracking.

I prefer to say I drive more spiritedly in the B.:hot:

My dailey driver is a 2008 six speed Acura TSX that does literally everything great and would absolutely wax my semi wild build MGB in a race anywhere.

But

The MGB is more "fun" to drive quickly,,,, what is that saying "it's more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow"

Owned a 04 Honda S2000 for a year and got rid of it because it was practically antiseptic and to make it drift or even feel pushed would require driving absolutely insane on the street.

I definitely drive in a bit more enthuusiastically in the GT, but prefer to do it in rural areas and enjoy rural highways with bends and so on. I either drive the GT or an older Benz, both very recognizeable cars, so I try to be courteous in town so people don't recognize me as "that guy" if I draw too much innappropriate attention to myself.

I notice I take joy in the experience of the B, and enjoy it most at 35-50 mph on country roads, especially hilly ones.
I thought I was driving a bit aggresively until I noticed a ditzy 20 something fem in her little rice burner. She was driving way too fast and doing so inarticulately. I'm sure she didnt realize what she was doing, because there is little sensation (wind and mechanical noises, etc.) provided by the car to inform the driver of what's happening. It's so nice and quiet inside those cars that it is great for yakking/blabbing on the cell while driving...adjusting makeup, combing hair...

I've ridden and seen people who travel down the suprhighways blithely at 80 or so in their gas guzzler road hogs (as they talk on the phone or eat). At 80 my B tells me it's going too fast for comfort (engine is screaming for relief and the wind is roaring past), and there's no way I'd try to drive inattentively-or at that speed.

My dad has called me while driving to tell me to slow down and that I'm going far to fast...
it just looks that way. I'm being safe, after all isn't it safety fast
lmao

Depends on whether wifey is riding shotgun or not! ;)

[size=x-large][color=#FF0000]Yes![/color][/size] Always have, always will! Driving my 79 is a blast - and she moves quick! My engine was rebuilt several years back and with HS-4's, Pertronix Ignition, zero emissions, lowered - let me tell you - I can take a corner at 50 and she never budges, like on rails as it were.

I love driving my B fast - although any speed feels fast with the top down!

I drive the V8 more nonchalantly ,
"were we having a race?" I imply with a raised eyebrow,
and casual look toward the Porch, alpha, whatever... when they catch up.. eventualy :)

Naw - in an MGB you could be running flat out and modern traffic would never notice. :D

Te MGC turns me into an animal sometimes though!

And oddly enough, I do often drive the MGA coupe more agressively. Maybe it is so much like the race car and I've done the suspension, and the stock power doesn't bother me.

I do the same thing as Gary - find a groove that is comfortable and cruise there. problem is that all cars seem to have differentc 'comfort speeds', and some, like the Jensen Interceptor are deceptively smooth at fairly high speed, so you can find yurself doing 90 - 100 MPH and you didn't even notice it. Same thing with the Lambo.

I usually run on the highway in the MG at around 4500 RPM, don't recall offhand what that is. But agree with Hap, it isn't cruising but rather the windy bits that are fun. I've had much faster cars run with me on winding highways and we do the same sort of average speed because the old MG handles better, or rather more easily than the driver of the modern stuff wants to push theirs.

[quote=bills]

I do the same thing as Gary - find a groove that is comfortable and cruise there. [/quote]

It is actually nice that the corn is down. It makes it easier to see around a lot of the curves where I drive. I ca get in a groove with out staying in my lane if I can see ahead. It is also easier to see deer (except at 4am). A deer can ruin your day.

[quote=gow589]
A deer can ruin your day.[/quote]

So can an oncoming cop with mobile radar popping up over a rise and zapping you.

Don't ask me how I know this.

BTW, I am told there was one guy who managed to drive under a moose in a Lotus and lived. Deer, OTOH are dense and low enough to do very bad things to a normal car.

In college my major was photography before switching to aviation. I also worked at a photo shop developing film. We had contracts with certain law enforcement agencies. One group of film that came through was an accident in a Chevy van where a deer had gone through the windshield at speed on an interstate and severed the heads of both occupants.

I worry more about deer then cops on these back roads. Hitting moose would be like hitting a building.

[quote=RSS]
I'm not aggressive. I'm assertive. :D[/quote]

EXACTLY!
There is a difference!
Allowing other drivers [who ain't paying attention] to know you are there is essential.

A little faster in the turns and braking and even acceleratin'

There are so many people on their cells phones or just not aware anyone else is along side them.
Big trucks.
Years ago I 'drove truck' They are big and do NOT stop like cars. They have many 'blind spots' Stay outa them!
They do well in turns to a point. But the driver has a big job staying safe.

And we need to try and think like all other drivers.
A wise truck driver said many years ago, and I will attempt to quote it. When asked how he had driven so many years accident free.
" I drive as though everyone on the road is a blasted IDIOT''

Very good advice.

Let's not be idiots folk's.
As for me, I save my competition for the autox course.

[quote=Dwight]

Let's not be idiots folk's.
[/quote]

I think people knew what he meant!

[quote=Dwight]
[quote=RSS]
I'm not aggressive. I'm assertive. :D[/quote]

EXACTLY!
There is a difference!
Allowing other drivers [who ain't paying attention] to know you are there is essential.

A little faster in the turns and braking and even acceleratin'

There are so many people on their cells phones or just not aware anyone else is along side them.
Big trucks.
Years ago I 'drove truck' They are big and do NOT stop like cars. They have many 'blind spots' Stay outa them!
They do well in turns to a point. But the driver has a big job staying safe.

And we need to try and think like all other drivers.
A wise truck driver said many years ago, and I will attempt to quote it. When asked how he had driven so many years accident free.
" I drive as though everyone on the road is a blasted IDIOT''

Very good advice.

Let's not be idiots folk's.
As for me, I save my competition for the autox course.[/quote]

The horn in my car isn't very loud so I put an air-horn you would
normally take to a football game in my B and use that, I literaly just leave it in there
at all times. I feel like a little red-neck doing that but, it really does get the other
drivers attention and it freaks them out a bit but because B's are so
small and low to the ground They can easily get lost, that's anther reason
I drive mine so aggressively.

[quote=Nannie]


The horn in my car isn't very loud so I put an air-horn you would
normally take to a football game in my B and use that, I literaly just leave it in there
at all times. I feel like a little red-neck doing that but, it really does get the other
drivers attention and it freaks them out a bit but because B's are so
small and low to the ground They can easily get lost, that's anther reason
I drive mine so aggressively.[/quote]





I call mine the "OH XHIT" horn. I have a red button for it on the dash. At a car show this summer there was a family with a little girl looking at the car. I asked the little girl if she wanted to sit in the car. She loved it. I told her to push the red button. She pushed it and held it on for about 2 seconds. Her parrents jusmped 10 foot in the air. I think they thought she crashed a car!

Latter I was driving out and I drove past them not realizing who they were till the little girl started yelling "Push the red button, Push the red button!!!"

If I'm on a highway or in traffic I don't feel like I can afford to drive assertively (never aggressively :-) in the MGA, and I'm sure the BGT will be the same. The car's way too slow and way too small compared to all the other cars on the road. I'm staring at SUV running boards and thinking I don't want to get squished. It's stressful, and it's why I don't drive much in those situations. On more rural roads I can drive more assertively without quite so much fear for my life.

[quote=Dwight]Allowing other drivers [who ain't paying attention] to know you are there is essential....There are so many people on their cells phones or just not aware anyone else is along side them.[/quote]

I see you drive the same highways I do! ;)

I have always felt safer on the race track than the road. At least on the track, the worst drivers have been weeded out, everyone is (more or less) travelling the same direction, and they should all have a modicum of driving skill.

I was glad when our province decided to ban driving and using cell phones. Hopefully that should help.

Do doubt. I'm always surprised how many people are too scared to drive an MGB on the freeway for fear of being killed. I've always felt FAR more safe on the freeway where everyone is going a similar speed and in the same direction. Cities, mainly intersections, are where I see the worst accidents and they usually could not be avoided. As far as safety is concerned I would rather drive all day on a freeway or highway than ten minutes through any city. Race tracks are even more controlled obviously, and far safer because of the drivers behind the wheels. And that's driving a breakneck speeds!

I sometimes think that large parking lots are the worst.

I've seen a small motorcycle (parked) crushed by a Hummer driven by a lady talking on a cell phone and she didn't stop - probably wasn't aware she'd hit anything, maybe thought it was a speed bump.

Can you imagine being the bike owner when he came back to find......

Freeways are a free for all. Your not safe in anything and an MG is not a comfortable place to be.

Driving on the freeway in Florida some girl came up from behind, went around me and crossed 2 lanes. What she did set off red flags and I got on the brakes and started slowing down. She pulled right behind a semi and hit the brakes but she was still in the process of switching lanes. Her back end came out and she did a Dale Ernhardt right in front of us into the concrete barrier.Funny thing was, when she was sitting waiting on the paramedics she kept calling people and saying she had been in an accident then hanging up. I was glad to be away from that.

Down in Houston driving a full sized Lincoln I had a semi coming up from behind playing nascar. He came up behind me just as traffic came to a halt; at night, in moderate rain. There was no way he cold stop. I pulled over to the concrete barricade as close as I could as the semi went by skidding and bouncing. We would have been crushed if I didn't dive out of lane.

This crap happends every day. Been in LA traffic a bit and they are nuts. Motorcycles running between the car pool lane and the regular lanes. You can keep an eye out and avoid bad accidents in town. You have more control a d heads up. On a freeway it goes to hell in a handbasket so fast they just try to identify the car when done and they may not even see a MG in what's left over.

[quote=bills]I sometimes think that large parking lots are the worst.[/quote]

I sure won't argue that, they are the worst. In fact, I nearly got creamed this morning in a parking structure by a moron in a huge raised pickup that had no business trying to navigate it! But at least parking lots are low-speed stuff.

Freeways are indeed far safer than city streets however. Last I read, probably a year or two ago, over 85% of all accidents occur on city streets. Freeways only seem more dangerous because of the speed. It's much easier to avoid an accident on the highway unless you're rear-ended in traffic. Otherwise you can keep your distance, and not have to worry about anyone crossing your path at intersections, driveways, etc.

[quote=Peter-Sherman]
I drive the V8 more nonchalantly ,
"were we having a race?" I imply with a raised eyebrow,
and casual look toward the Porch, alpha, whatever... when they catch up.. eventualy :)[/quote]


LOL, my wife always tells me "it's not a race", and my response is always the same, "it always a race". :)

[quote=Speedracer]
[quote=Peter-Sherman]
I drive the V8 more nonchalantly ,
"were we having a race?" I imply with a raised eyebrow,
and casual look toward the Porch, alpha, whatever... when they catch up.. eventualy :)[/quote]


LOL, my wife always tells me "it's not a race", and my response is always the same, "it always a race". :)[/quote]

We'll have to put you against Stef/Saffyres sometime - although she says she never races - she just insists on getting there first. :D

[quote="Steve S"]


Freeways are indeed far safer than city streets however. Last I read, probably a year or two ago, over 85% of all accidents occur on city streets. Freeways only seem more dangerous because of the speed. It's much easier to avoid an accident on the highway unless you're rear-ended in traffic. Otherwise you can keep your distance, and not have to worry about anyone crossing your path at intersections, driveways, etc.[/quote]

I don't think so. Accidents in city streets are far more avoidable with defensive driving and are generally caused y 2 drivers not engaged in what is going on. Of those 85%, wherever that number came from, most are relatively low speed collisions. Accidents on freeways are far more fatal, happen faster, and involve more people whether they were driving defensively or not.

1992 road fatalities show 34,942.

4,350 interstate
12,052 Federal aid primary highway systems
5,849 Federal secondary highway systems


6,582 Federal Urban


8,826 Non federal funded which is a mix

1,591 unknown


Overwhelmingly more fatalities on interstate and highway systems then urban.

http://www.allcountries.org/uscensus/1037_fatal_motor_vehicle_accidents_national_summary.html

LOL! Wow, you really got into this one. The numbers quoted were not fatalities, they were number of collisions. Your idea of safety is not dying if involved in an accident, where mine is not getting into an accident to begin with. Differing views, that's all, and not worthy of mind-nuimbing internet research in my opinion. If you disagree with the number of accidents I quoted then feel free to argue them with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. I believe they have an 800 number and would love to hear from a concerned taxpayer. ;)

Also, to quote the numbers above is misleading since several types of roadways are lumped into general categories. Federally aided road systems are not merely high-speed, multi-lane highways. They also include urban and rural routes, from main roads to farm roads. So, your numbers could actually be used show that fewer people die on Interstate highways than on smaller roads, rural and urban. That too would be inaccurate however, assuming that's even what we're looking for. To be really accurate we also need to establish whether we're talking about fatalities, injuries, collisions, etc, or what mixture of such. I really don't think anyone is interested in being quite that pedantic, myself included.

Boy did this ever get off-topic somehow! LOL! Apologies to James. ;)

[quote="Steve S"]
LOL! Wow, you really got into this one. The numbers quoted were not fatalities, they were number of collisions. [/quote]

Read it again. Fatalities by road types. It was found with a 30 second internet search. Sorry I hurt your chip on your shoulder and yes fatalities is a huge reflect on safety.

I'm in the "feels and sounds" more aggressive camp. It may feel and sound like a person is driving aggressively, but the other cars are going faster. :S

[quote="Steve S"]


I really don't think anyone is interested in being quite that pedantic, myself included.

[/quote]

Then why engage in the first place?

Read it again yourself. I was talking about my numbers, not yours! LOL! :drinking:

Wow Gary, sometimes I think you must surely be kidding around. I just don't understand what I ever did to you to warrant such a distaste for my company, but I hope someday you either get over it or help me understand so I can apologize. Can't say I haven't tried, oh well. Nothing to do but... :I3: :)

What are you talking about. I simply disagree.

Ah Steve, Gary is just a Pantera guy who simply tolerates us lowly 4 banger types, you know the ole song and dance, my penis is bigger than your penis :I3:

Before anyone gets mad, it's called a sense of humor, sometimes lost via the internet.

[quote=Speedracer]
Ah Steve, Gary is just a Pantera guy who simply tolerates us lowly 4 banger types, you know the ole song and dance, my penis is bigger than your penis :I3:[/quote]

I still need to get some info for the Nascar. Hap you got a shop one can stop by if I fly down there some time?

Steve if you think I am mad at you or something, if you ever get through Indiana stop by. We have about 35 old cars in the family dating back to 1902. I'll give you a tour; 1/2 dozen model T's.

Considering that's the first seemingly kind comment you've probably ever made to me, as opposed to several years of the opposite, it's hard to believe I won't end up buried under the foundation of your new workshop. So maybe I'll hold off on that plane ticket for now! If you want to discuss this further then it probably should be offline.

Well if I seem harsh some times I respond directly well when talked to like a school boy and I don't use smiley faces. Offers open if you ever get in this area.

I'm off on a flight.

All this talk of statistics. I'm reminded of an old TV add for something. Story goes. Way back when they sold only two model Ts in Ohio. They managed to run into each other at an intersection.

As far as the original question about driving style, when our club does a tour/run, they have a fast group that likes to drive "spirited". That group leaves first so as not to be constantly overtaking the icecream stop group. I go with the fast guys. :thumbsup:

[quote=mar3kl]
If I'm on a highway or in traffic I don't feel like I can afford to drive assertively (never aggressively :-) in the MGA, and I'm sure the BGT will be the same. The car's way too slow and way too small compared to all the other cars on the road. I'm staring at SUV running boards and thinking I don't want to get squished. It's stressful, and it's why I don't drive much in those situations. On more rural roads I can drive more assertively without quite so much fear for my life.[/quote]
i would like to say if you think a tiny mgb with a 1.8 is slow you have never driven a tiny boxy suzuki samurai with a even smaller 1.3l with a top speed of 75 pedal to floor
but it is one of the funnest cars i have driven we will see when i get the b running

[quote=gow589]
[quote=Nannie]


The horn in my car isn't very loud so I put an air-horn you would
normally take to a football game in my B and use that, I literaly just leave it in there
at all times. I feel like a little red-neck doing that but, it really does get the other
drivers attention and it freaks them out a bit but because B's are so
small and low to the ground They can easily get lost, that's anther reason
I drive mine so aggressively.[/quote]





I call mine the "OH XHIT" horn. I have a red button for it on the dash. At a car show this summer there was a family with a little girl looking at the car. I asked the little girl if she wanted to sit in the car. She loved it. I told her to push the red button. She pushed it and held it on for about 2 seconds. Her parrents jusmped 10 foot in the air. I think they thought she crashed a car!

Latter I was driving out and I drove past them not realizing who they were till the little girl started yelling "Push the red button, Push the red button!!!"






[/quote]
I believe I need a lil' red button in my B it would be easier than trying to
use an air horn to get attention, Illinois drivers are crazy absolutely the worst

Nannie
i tink those horns are directional , for the full up redneck application you need to hood mount those things ,,
hehe

[quote=gow589]
I still need to get some info for the Nascar. Hap you got a shop one can stop by if I fly down there some time?[/quote]

Yep, you or any of the guys/gals are welcome anytime, it's not the museum some expect it to be, just a working shop, but cool stuff happens here :)

[quote=Speedracer]
[quote=gow589]
I still need to get some info for the Nascar. Hap you got a shop one can stop by if I fly down there some time?[/quote]

Yep, you or any of the guys/gals are welcome anytime, it's not the museum some expect it to be, just a working shop, but cool stuff happens here :)[/quote]

I fly all over. I will get in there one of these days. If it's an overnight I'd even help out workin on something!

Amazing how posts can take on a life of their own. This one might be a record before it's over. It is a good post and should make us all think about our cars and how to keep safe while driving them.

[quote=mattmacklind3]
I definitely drive in a bit more enthuusiastically in the GT, but prefer to do it in rural areas and enjoy rural highways with bends and so on.[/quote]

You're not the only one--when I take my GT out, I try to stick to the back roads. Less traffic (and idiots) to deal with--even with good brakes, there's no way I can stop in time. Considering that, plus the fact that if I hit anything I'm dead...I'm always very careful with that car. That's not to say that I don't engage in some "spirited" driving from time to time. I haven't taken the car out on the interstate, and I don't plan to. Sure, you can make up time on them...but they're pretty boring otherwise. No twisty parts, no scenery (usually) just long stretches of gray crumbly stuff. Er, no thanks. I'll pass :)

BTW, the roads in South Park are great for cruising around. It's not uncommon to be driving the MG around in circles, and meet someone else doing the same thing--I've seen plenty of people doing the same thing when it's nice out.

Like Hap says;
I drive like I'm on a Bike. Stay ahead of most everybody,our B's can do it, cause likely they can't see you and will run over you and won't know it.
Drive like they want you dead.
The safest and most predictable drivers are truckers,most everyone else have no idea how to drive.
Funny on quiet country roads I just potter along.
On the super slab, I put the hammer down.
Yahooo

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