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Classic Mustang near Dundalk

  • 28-08-2006 2:44pm
    #1
    LikeOhMyGawd!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 192 ✭✭


    On Sunday night (20th Aug) saw a lovely Mustang on the A1/N1 between Newry and Dundalk. In an ideal world I'd love to meet the owner and have a word with him, just to say thanks for nearly getting me killed as he pulled straight from the slipway onto the road into my path forcing me to swerve across the hatching and into the opposite lane. Mercifully there was a gap in the traffic otherwise I could well have become another statistic. I bet someone in the classic car fraternity knows who this might have been:mad:


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  • #2
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,038 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    LikeOhMyGawd! wrote:
    On Sunday night (20th Aug) saw a lovely Mustang on the A1/N1 between Newry and Dundalk. In an ideal world I'd love to meet the owner and have a word with him, just to say thanks for nearly getting me killed as he pulled straight from the slipway onto the road into my path forcing me to swerve across the hatching and into the opposite lane. Mercifully there was a gap in the traffic otherwise I could well have become another statistic. I bet someone in the classic car fraternity knows who this might have been:mad:

    Was it red with a 69 D reg.?


  • #3
    mustang68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭mustang68


    Not I, and poor show from the driver if hes acting like an idiot when hes driving. This is the kind of story that makes me fear for the cheap(ish) insurance we're all paying.


  • #4
    alfarocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 192 ✭✭alfarocks


    mustang68 wrote:
    Not I, and poor show from the driver if hes acting like an idiot when hes driving. This is the kind of story that makes me fear for the cheap(ish) insurance we're all paying.

    I agree, but all kind of idiots are driving all kind of vehicles out there. Just because it was a classic the OP thinks the car/owner is more traceable on these boards for whatever reason.


  • #5
    LikeOhMyGawd!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 192 ✭✭LikeOhMyGawd!


    alfarocks wrote:
    I agree, but all kind of idiots are driving all kind of vehicles out there. Just because it was a classic the OP thinks the car/owner is more traceable on these boards for whatever reason.

    I'm not on a manhunt or anything, just think that possibly the person driving might once look on here one and the penny might drop. I think recklessly pulling out on people in the dark of night on dangerous stretches of road is a bad habit. I know very well that this kind of thing is done more often by the likes of drivers of 4x4s, vans or bog standard cars, but a Mustang?- Let's just say I was surprised in more ways than one!


  • #6
    --amadeus--
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,096 ✭✭✭--amadeus--


    What amazes me is the number of times the opposite has happened. I used to run a 67 Merc saloon as my daily driver and the number of times I was happily cruising down a dual carriageway or main road at 60+ only for some fool to pull out in front of me is unbelievable. Now I'm as brave as the next man but I'm not sure I'd put a 1L Nissan Micra pulling from standstill in front of a ton of germanic steel doing 60 with near 40 year old brakes!


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  • #7
    mustang68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭mustang68


    --amadeus-- wrote:
    What amazes me is the number of times the opposite has happened. I used to run a 67 Merc saloon as my daily driver and the number of times I was happily cruising down a dual carriageway or main road at 60+ only for some fool to pull out in front of me is unbelievable.

    That happens me a lot too. I manual drum brakes are not very good, however, I use the accelerator if at all possible to get around people who do that.

    Traffic lights change too fast for me going at a normal speed to get though them safely.


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