road rage

ev ery time I take the mk1 out lately I seem to have some sort of encounter with some bellend trying to cut me up or pull out on me, they see a classic and they got to try to get in front no matter what.

Maybe they're trying to get a good look at your MK1?  

Drop a 16/20v in  drop gear leave them for dust 😉

no mate they defo bellends they see an old car/van and just think you gonna hold them up in there modern daffodil, I drive a mk1 golf, mk2 golf and t3 panel van as my daily's and I experience the same in all 3 on a regular basis

I get folks all the time pulling out in front of me or cutting me off in my lane because I leave plenty of room between cars.  

Last week 4 times in 30 minutes.  I think that folks just don't care, and are too busy chatting on their phones texting, reading facebook.  

Last year on my way to work at night with a slight fog I got behind a Car that was weaving all over the road, I go to move around and into my lane the car veers, then hugging both lanes.  I figured that it is better to be behind a drunk or stoned driver than in front.  So I finally got the chance to get around and as I was passing it was a woman driver using her Map display to drive in the foggy road…..  It was like she was driving a Video game…. GO FIGURE…..

I guess that is why I have 300db horns…

chap in a audi nearly took my front end off tonight then tried to out accelerate me relised he couldn't then had the cheek to give me the anchor sign when I went past, one word "bellend"

I get more idiots when I'm in the TT to be honest, but that's to be expected.
Genuinely had a woman on the motorway this morning with no lights on!  
Only real Rage I've ever really had was earlier this year in the Audi.  Some cap wearing chimp in his mum's car was literally sat on my bumper going through town.
Got out and tapped on his window, clearly wasn't expecting a bald, biker jacket wearing midget to get out.
His girl friend went utterly mental.  Kept apologizing and yelling at him that she'd warned him that one day someone was going to drag him out of the car.
Not a lot you can say to that.  Nothing I say or do was going to make his day any worse.  Did point out that I was running over 250bhp and 4wd so sitting on my backside was pointless but I'm not sure he was listening.
Got back in the car and drove off.

totally with you on that.. coming back from Malvern Classic Car Show on Sunday & there were a few people just cruising on the M50 heading back to Ross-on-wye/Monmouth etc.. go to overtake them & they put their foot down! get a life… so i put mine down too just to pee em off! my lil GTI is pretty nimble & swift.. when i get by the side of them i give them the eyes or a headshake (can't do a lot with my daughter in the car, if my son is with me, who's 13, he says 'don't Dad' if somebody performs)… Fools. what's the point??

This has been reported before but last summer a woman t-boned my Mk1.

I was on a long dead straight road but slowing down as I had a roundabout roughly 150 yards away and a T junction to my left, so doing about 35ish mph.

At the T junction I spotted a white SUV waiting at the give way sign, so far so good.

Here's the but…
As I approached the junction this 'female dog' of a woman just pulled straight out!
She had to cross the first lane to get to me on the other which gave me all of around 3 or 4 seconds to react.

So hard on the brakes moving as far over as I dare as there was a very narrow dirt/grass verge and about a 5 foot drop into a field.
Had I moved another 6 inches or so over that would have been it, I would have rolled it, even the Policeman agreed with that!  

So she nailed me just behind the B pillar and clearly I went ballistic and some. (Mild road rage)
I called the police and a youngish officer arrived within five minutes.
He questioned me as to what happened first and then the female dog and this is roughly translated what she said to him.
"I pulled out because the car is not mine it's my husbands and I didn't she this white car with his lights on."
Asked if she saw the 'Give Way' sign at the junction she replied, "Sorry no I use this road often but never noticed it."

So what was the outcome?
I had to pay £25 to the Police for the signing an accident report for her insurance company.
I was given a verbal warning for using English swear words, some of which there'd never even heard of before.
To get the car looked at by the assessor and to deliver my car and collect it back from the specialist paint shop a total of two days holiday.
The insurance claim for the work was just over £2,500 with vat.

As for the women, nothing.
She just got in her car and drove away.

But here's the kicker.
When it happened I was driving back from the said same paint shop after picking it up from a car park damage that had been done! So when we'd finished I drove back again to the paint shop just 7 miles away and when the boss saw me pulling in he had a look of worry on his face.
I called him over to the drivers side which he had just personally repaired and the air turned blue as I'd only left him an hour before.  

And I was in the wrong for using English words which may or may not be swear words but the policeman couldn't repeat which words I used that offended her and him.

Come on!      

Just today I pulled in to a parking slot well away from the end, and a frigging panel van pulled in across from me and pulled over the line and into my stall missing my front bumper by 2 inches.  I had a few words for him as his window was down…..I think he heard me as he moved his van….

Yes I was Vocal, I didn't swear, but I did have some thoughts on having his brain firmly up his back side, and that I suspect he needed optics to see out his navel.