I have just come back from a counter lunch in town. In the commodore.
Gulgong is a 50 km town and its a causual town anyway with road rules etc. Ambling down the long main street, I looked in the rear vision mirror and there was a red pulsar stuck right up my bum in probably 2nd gear with its engine doing what sounded like 22,000 rpm.

I pulled across to give them room to get passed and quess what colour the P plate was ??????.

Sigh !!!

What you needed is what I had on my last car. A toggle mounted reversing light. You should see them hit the anchors when it fires up. Turning you lights on can have a similar effect

Change down a gear without braking and knock off 1/4 of your speed.

Works a treat.

Although last time I did it I had the P plater overtake me on the left and then pull back in and hit my car and drive off.

Yes, I am a P plater. Do I tailgait ? Yes, when I am going home from work and people decide to do anywhere from 40 to 60 km/h in the 7km section of 90Kmh. Any other time I am happy to sit back and enjoy the scenery.

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No more Minis!......For now.

What annoys me is when you cockies prop and stop in the main street to chat with your mates about drought, rain, sheep dip or whatever regardless of the traffic behind you

And, i've just noticed you beat me to 1275cc on the user id status as well

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I never do that in the mini. Anyway we dont use sheep dip these days - you just backline them with a wand of zapp. !!!

Most sheep dips were arsenic based and declared too dangerous.

My whole issue was silly red P platers look screaming around in old cars that are nearly heamorrhaging because of the needless high revs and the need to pass me so they can turn left screechingly 50 metres further on.

Always with four in the car, the windows all wound down (regardless of the weather), elbows out the windows and the radio turned up so loud that the tyres have distorted as well as the sound from the speakers.

i really do think tailgaiters are the lowest form of driver...

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i miss my landcruiser ..... stuff the switch .. hit the ankers and watch them disserpear under the back . my 40 55 and 70 swb had them nice fat low slung radiator wreakers on them 5 maybe 6 times i had cars run into me and everytime got away with it ... kids playing just over there was concerned when one kicked the ball little doggie run out onto the road the lights were changeing
makka

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Anonymous moderation means the agro that is built up towards the mods isn't aimed at an individual (fewer "Makk" attacks). Less stress for mods means less moderator "retirements".

Hmmmm. I know that works but I am not going to precipitate an accident in my home town and have some penniless kid bury his what ever into the rear of our daily driver.

There are no winners and plenty of damage.

Too bad you guys miss out on the Canberra Public Service Grand Prix each day.
Makes the Nascar drivers look like amateurs.
We even have advisory signs "Don't Tailgate".
Ignored, unenforced & as about as useful as a screen door in a submarine

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1967 Cooper S - new front bearings to do.
1965 Cooper S shell - Slow progress. No time or money!
1966 Deluxe- next rustoration!
Mk 2 & XJ6 Jags. Less said the better.

i used to have a bypass switch for the reversing lights and the handbrake switch
and that was quite effective at stopping from tailgating me

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why does everyone want a Cooper S when you ca have a better Clubby

I just tap my breaks enought for the rear to lift and they slam their brakes on in panic

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Stop Licking the Dog...I Don't Care Who Started It

how many colour p plates do you lot have over there. we only have a red p here and they only display it for a year

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busier than a 0ne legged man in a butt kicking competion

was it a female

red p plates for 1 year minimum

then green p plates for two years....

and i cant drive turbo, v8.... (diesel turbo ok)

so you have to be atleast 20 before your on your full license..

There are all sorts of restrictions applied to the P plates in terms of Alcohol, speeds, types of cars you can drive and i am unsure how the recent politics washed up. That was a political solution to end the cycle of p platers killing them selves in road accidents by stopping them driving after 11pm and limiting the number of passengers they can carry.

Although, after today's little episode I am even more convinced that P platers should be limited to one passenger if the passenger is under 40 years of age.

Gulgong is such a small town, you can fully circle the CBD in less that 500 metres driving, the temperature after dark is below zero and nobody is out walking on the footpath. Then looking out the restuarant window you see the same red p plated car going around and around the CBD with four males in it. All either wearing caps on backwards or beanies pulled down to their shoulders. The car windows wound down and the elbows on the windows sills. The stereo ?? guess what its boom boom boom.

Long live the newcastle song !!!!!