Driving - Boxed in on the freeway

[phrog]

Yes I have driven a Kadette. Never boxed in by 18-wheelers, though. Betcha went home and changed your shorts, right?

You wear shorts? Actually the Kadette was a very good car - just not very powerful and pretty small.

[phrog]

Have you ever been caught boxed in on the freeway, moving cars on both sides and in front and back so you can't get around or past them?

I was driving down the freeway at 70mph and noticed an older car in front of me... a 1970's Ford Pinto - pretty rare to see on the road these days. I glanced to either side of me and saw two Ford Explorers with their Firestone AT tires rolling close by. A glance in the mirror I saw a late model Toyota tailgating me and flashing his headlights. I was hoping the Exploders wouldn't blow a tire and roll over onto me at the same time the Totyota would accelerate uncontrollably pushing me into the uprotected rear fuel tank of the Pinto when I woke up, sweating... what a nightmare!

Loring, I wonder what Freud would have to say about the fact that both cars beside you and the one in front are Fords while the one behind is a Toyota? Should I buy Ford stock? Considering the problems with the cars involved, should I sell everything and go to cash?

[pelligrini]

I learned to drive in a Plymouth Horizon Turismo. More or less the same car. That car was a piece of crap but it got me where I needed to go I guess.

I learned on my folks' '72 Pontiac Station Wagon, it even had the gold paint and the simulated wood paneled sides (vinyl). I went from that to their '74 Pinto.

My first car of my own was a '69 GTO, then a '69 Dodge A100 Pickup, then my '69 Camaro that I drive now.

[billwmeyer]

I had an Omni, Specifically an Omni O24, it has the Dodge-ified Volkswagen Rabbit engine and funky Chyrsler 4 speed manual transaxle. It had the worst case of Torque steer... It was a 1981 model, my Dad bought the car in 1986 for $100.00 with a blown head gasket, he fixed it back up, and I drove the snot out of that car...

That's funny! I bought an Omni for my daughter's first car. It had a blown head gasket and I think I paid $100 for it! It blew it one more time, I fixed it again, then I sold it a year or so later and got her a pretty nice Cutlass. She liked the Omni ok, but the bright yellow paint she hated.

Bill

[LCHIEN]

Loring, I wonder what Freud would have to say about the fact that both cars beside you and the one in front are Fords while the one behind is a Toyota? Should I buy Ford stock? Considering the problems with the cars involved, should I sell everything and go to cash?

i wasn't dreaming long enough to look at the car i was driving.
Bill Meyer says it was a corvair.

[chopnhack]

Only engineers could dream like that....... the brain setting up a frightful scenario, come on Loring, can you honestly find a pinto around anymore