RE: A good way to ward off those pesky tailgaters

["Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com>]

I used to do this with my bus when I had major exhaust leaks! Fun Fun! and 
it works VERY well too!


>When I was driving my Bug daily, I was running a Pacesetter exhaust for a
>year or so.  Piece of junk, but it allowed me to talk people into backing
>off very effectively.  The exhaust was poorly made, and it didn't seal very
>well at all connection points.  I noticed on dark night that when I 
>released
>the accelerator and allowed the engine to brake the car a bit, the loud
>backfiring was accompanied by a bright orange flash.  From that point on, I
>used that to my advantage, and whenever I was being tailgated, I would just
>take my foot off the gas and wait for the flames to shoot out of my
>tailpipes.  Then I would watch the tailgater get smaller in my mirror.  
>Very
>effective, but it's not easy to do that unless you're driving an ACVW.
>
>Aaron
>'84 Scirocco - Woo-hoo!
>'70 Bug - hibernating
>'87 Nissan truck - Soon to be for sale
>
>
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Chris DeLong
ICQ#45030867
Seattle, WA USA
'80 16V Rag
'65 Bus (ugly, but good for campin' W/toaster oven)
'82 GLI (now with a happy shaved, solenoid operated trunk)
'80 'Vert
'61 17 Window
'78 Scirocco


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