A few more boy walkers

[onearmedbandit]

I remember racing the VF500 back in 1989 against my mates through the Lyttelton tunnel. Did some speed which is rather close to redline in top and had all of the tunnel lights going red. I'm thinking the tunnel dude was going red also....

Bloody boyracer !!

I too heard the rumour about the lights changing to red if you speed through there at excessive speed. I can confirm they do. Used to have impromptu drags down Moorhouse/Cass/Carlyle back in the late 80's. Then in the early 90's I was racing myself, everything from a std 308 Statesman, to a ground-up build 308 Sunbird and a 440 Magnum powered Charger. Guys unbolting their exhausts on the side of the roads, spare tyres in the boot, couple of crates and a bag of bud.

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I remember racing the VF500 back in 1989 against my mates through the Lyttelton tunnel. Did some speed which is rather close to redline in top and had all of the tunnel lights going red. I'm thinking the tunnel dude was going red also....

Bloody boyracer !!

...yip...the only things different between the twats doing it today and the twats doing it then(me) is their fucked attitude and sense of entitlement and the power/speed they can attain, and there numbers....I'm kind of glad the big old bodgie Mk 2 Zephyr I had then only developed about the same power as my Sportster today...I cringe at the things we did... like pissed and stoned, two abreast in the tunnel from one end to the other after a night at the Valley Inn listening to 'Freshwater' who were resident band there...

[Drew]

...yip...the only things different between the twats doing it today and the twats doing it then(me) is their fucked attitude and sense of entitlement and the power/speed they can attain, and there numbers....I'm kind of glad the big old bodgie Mk 2 Zephyr I had then only developed about the same power as my Sportster today...I cringe at the things we did... like pissed and stoned, two abreast in the tunnel from one end to the other after a night at the Valley Inn listening to 'Freshwater' who were resident band there...

What of not entitlement, was it that you think prompted your antics?

And you think your slow old Zepher was safer to be in than a modern car, because it was slow?

[SMOKEU]

Do a skid.

[T.W.R]

aren't there a few wee stories of past exploits going on here

Pretty much the biggest difference between what used to transpire years ago and what's going on now is the attitude of this generation.

Personally with all the shit myself & the guys that ran in the same circles would make half this lot shit themselves but we never went purposely looking for trouble or intending to cause trouble, sure we clashed with the law plenty of times....pursuits, roadblocks etc; it wasn't the norm or the weekly event to try for those sort of results and if we did get caught we took it on the chin there wasn't abuse or aggression to being raked over the coals for our stupidity.
Sure we would have scared the crap out of a few people with our antics but mostly through sheer shock & fright not intimidation or abusive behaviour.
BTW Those Lyttleton tunnel lights were a entertaining thing our game was to see how quickly we could them going heading down into Lyttleton sitting behind a couple of bevel dukes on the over run barking out their contis from 160kmh+ with a triple cackling through it's 3/1 took a fair bit of beating

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What of not entitlement, was it that you think prompted your antics?

And you think your slow old Zepher was safer to be in than a modern car, because it was slow?

...you'll have to rephrase that first bit Drew...there's a big nor'wester blowing here at the mo...cant get my remaining brain cells to line up....maybe T.W.R. answered it for me?...

...the Zephyr didn't usually end up in two pieces when I hit big trees or put it over the bank on the Governors Bay Road...a tow out and a big hammer usually got it back on track...neither did my Morris Oxford or my bro's '36 Chev....

[SMOKEU]

I'm surprised some of you lot are still alive after antics like those.

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I'm surprised some of you lot are still alive after antics like those.

I am real surprised I am still here too.

[Banditbandit]

And you think your slow old Zepher was safer to be in than a modern car, because it was slow?

They might be safer to be in - but they had crap brakes and weighed a lot ... if they fucked up there was more risk to those outside ...

[Banditbandit]

I'm surprised some of you lot are still alive after antics like those.

Fuck me ... what's been said here is mild compared to some of the things that went on ...

I am real surprised I am still here too.

Me too ... I never expected to live to be this old ... every day now is a bonus ...

[nudemetalz]

Yeah I wonder how I am still alive also....seems to be a recurring thing with us "slightly older" fellahs (and lasses) here on KB......

Going to Lyttelton you could go faster as it's downhill but the roundabout made the brakes work well,...but coming out the tunnel was more fun as you could go past the the dude in his little station at errr...200 somethings.....wondering if I Plod Cortina or V3000 was there to greet you.... hehehe

[T.W.R]

The thing that amuses me about these so called boy racer types is their pack mentality...farkin big time heros in a group or when they've got a load in their huge black hole of debt cars get some of the wee twats by themselves and they're right wee worms.

The convention or gathering they had a while back......2.30am here I am heading home from a nights work head out on to the main sth for the 30min drive home, roll through Templeton and here's about 15 cars lined up with a bunch of wee ass-wipes & slappers milling around; I drive past and by the time I get to the open road there's half of them right up behind me with one so close I should've opened the boot so he could hop in
I just kept on my way and come the 1st passing bay they're all blasting past & cutting in front of me & I'm thinking to myself this'll be interesting if they're a few of the chumps from Ashburton, but nah that wasn't to be...about 3kms up the road the 4 of them pull in abruptly and one idiot does a U-turn with me bearing down on him at 100k+.
The cars further ahead keep going and a couple pull into the Rolleston 24hr servo and leave one lone 180SX in front of me as we head toward Burnham & the run to Ashburton, only thing being this dick decides to cruise along at 80kmh so I pull out & pass and waddaya know here it is right up my arse and trying to push me along
(now I do bomb along at a fair rate & have travelled the main sth for 20+yrs back n forth to chch from home) so I think this'll be amusing so sit at a stead 120ish and sure enough here this dick comes blasts past and heads off to gap me a bit and sure enough down he comes to 80 again this kept up for a bit till I passed again and he sat steady behind me till the Dunsandel straight where this dick blasts off into the distance ahead of me only to literally stop & wait at the Bankside bend, soon as I go by he's off trying to get in behind me again
So I'd had enough by this time so give the Maxima it's head and punt it along a bit & he's hauling in behind me I'm being so over this & just wanting to get home after a long night, I keep a steady pace up over the Rakaia overhead bridge and low & behold this wee chump can't keep the pace with a couple of bends involved so I keep an eye on him as he sat maybe half a km behind me till I pulled off the main sth & into home.

Back 25yrs ago we'd never bother doing that sort of shit to a car we didn't know or attempt it...closest thing we got upto like that would be buzzing a few as we blasted past on our bikes, it was just a case of we're in their mirrors one sec & next we'd be a dot up in the distance ahead of them. We wouldn't try pushing cars or other bikes around on the road or try hounding them; we'd just be out doing our thing without involving others.

[T.W.R]

Going to Lyttelton you could go faster as it's downhill but the roundabout made the brakes work well,...but coming out the tunnel was more fun as you could go past the the dude in his little station at errr...200 somethings.....wondering if I Plod Cortina or V3000 was there to greet you.... hehehe

Heading to Heathcote was just asking for trouble wasn't the ones wating for coz you'd be through before they could get moving it was who'd they would've called to greet you aswell
Least heading into port you peal off for a run around to the Smugglers or the Wheatsheaf and you just get the timing right fanging it out of the roundabout otherwise the brakes got a bloody good workout

[Drew]

...you'll have to rephrase that first bit Drew...there's a big nor'wester blowing here at the mo...cant get my remaining brain cells to line up....maybe T.W.R. answered it for me?...

...the Zephyr didn't usually end up in two pieces when I hit big trees or put it over the bank on the Governors Bay Road...a tow out and a big hammer usually got it back on track...neither did my Morris Oxford or my bro's '36 Chev....

I mean, that if you felt you weren't entitled to do the silly things, how did you convince yourself to do them anyway?

Those cars you talk about, are, and always were fucken death traps. No one knew how bad of course, and there was no alternative, but they hadn't evolved into anything like we've got today. Scumdog posted a real time video of an old Impala (I think) and a new car for the same market in a head on.

People like to say the old cars would "tear straight through the new plastic cars", and they are 100% wrong. The new school middle of the road family sedan ripped the drivers side of the old girl clean off right up to the drivers shoulder. The cabin of the new car, was still intact.

I'm surprised some of you lot are still alive after antics like those.

I am real surprised I am still here too.

Fuck me ... what's been said here is mild compared to some of the things that went on ...




Me too ... I never expected to live to be this old ... every day now is a bonus ...

Looking back, it surprises me no end that myself, friends, and certain family are here today.

There was the fun, broken bones type dangerous stuff. And the fuck, how did that not go tits up DEATH stuff.

[scumdog]

Do a skid.

Why do the roads look so wet??