The Gawk

[Red Sky II]

Had a guy today at the estate agents ask questions of me for about 5 minutes about the car, then when I got home, the woman from across the road came running across to see what make the car was.

Her whole family (inc 4 kids) were trying to guess what make it was and they were all wrong.

Think the limo glass with clear front windows tends to get attention as it is something different on cars here

[Appealing]

I chopped a commie the other day, that was great too. andI chopped Mitchy heheheh

Really Kylie, I think that you should keep your private moments private!!

Edited February 7, 2007 by Appealing

[mitchy_]

I love the jaw dropping action from young guys in skylines... (its happened 3 times to me) and while mitchy's been driving it he's had a few comments. People even so keen to catch him at a set of lights

I love the gawkers I chopped a commie the other day, that was great too. andI chopped Mitchy heheheh

thats not fair, i missed 3rd gear and hit the limiter

and i chopped you next time round (even if i did miss the turn off for our street!)

but yes i had a few people ask me what it was..

gotta love the people that ask "is that imported?!" when the plates are "IMPORTD"...

[-FUZZY-]

i've had ppl leave cards/pieces of paper under my wipers for me to contact them as they've wanted to know details as were interested in them.

And guys at work reckon there's always young guys checking my car out in the car park with bewildered looks on their faces.

But yeah ... pretty much agree with everyone, its a daily thing catching ppl gawking at your car in traffic.

[Wildcat]

hahaha i have had so many its not funny still the ones where you walk out of the shops to have people looking around your car, then when you deactivate your alarm they are like "this your car...yeah..oh your female..yeah your point?...its one sexy car, new model or something..then i explain to them and they are like nice and a girl with an import" whats the deal with that, cant girls have them or something??

Funniest one i have had yet, was the guy trying to give me his mobile number at the lights and trying to catch me that made my day THe cops are kinda stupid to, they see my nismo sticker sit up my ass thinking i will do something wrong and then they drive next to me trying to figure out what the hell im driving

[One Three]

Yeah i havent ever really had anything to standout before (in the way of cars) but i must say the stag gets alot of Attention, i pulled up to some lights abut a week ago and there was a bunch of young guys in a vn and they got me to roll down my window and they where asking all types of questions was pretty cool. then they took off like animals and left me in a big cloud off exhaust smoke...

[Ska]

Yeah, well how about this...................

A HUGE storm was brewing in rocky this arvo, so just as I finish work I get a call from my wife, it's hailing about 5mins away from where I am, but where I am it is not even raining, but looks bad.

I when it started rain, it came down so fast that in about 30secs I was aquaplanning on the road, there was just that much water, so I managed to pull off and into a petrol station to take cover from the hail, which was just starting.

As soo as I stop, the siren on my car alarm goes off, I am like WTF!?!?!? The car is still running, I hit all the buttons on the remote for the alarm, no good, so there I am, surrounded by about a dozen other people in their cars, the siren BLARING and hail coming down........... The other people there were giving me some wierd looks. I wasnt game to get out of the car because the rain was coming in sideways, they were just going to have to deal with it.

So the hail ended and the rain eased up and I drove home and popped the bonnet and used the key to turn the siren off.

A HUGE THANK YOU To Chris Rogers, (that is his username on SAu), as he installed it and he was able to tell me that when the siren part gets wet it will sound, so I took it all apart, used a hirdryer to dry it out and then COULDNT GET IT BACK TOGETHER After a bit of fiddling and help from my wonderfully patient wife, we got it back together and bolted it all back in and hey presto it works fine.

The amount of people looking at me as I tried to drive home in the shortest amount of time possible was just about everyone....... even in the cabin it is bloody loud so I guess it would be the same loudness for those other people too...........

[EGA41T]

lol, im sure you had plenty of strange looks, i'd be so stressed out if that happened to me.

[FLYSLY]

Haha thats is kinda funny though cy, reminds of a time when i had my first car, i was drving home from somewhere and the horn just started to go spastik like what happened to you cy lol.

[Silverback]

I have to admit to gawking at my own car sometimes!. My daily driver is the XR6 Turbo, and sometimes when I am travelling home from work, I catch the back end of the Stag as Cathy drives it home. Its an awesome car to look at as its rolling. Cathy is always getting checked out and I get a lot of looks when I take it out and about. When the sun hits the silky pearl it looks scweeeeeeetttt.

[mcnamg]

was sitting in the carpark outside sizzler the other day waiting for my sister in law to arrive and some guys who were lining up outisde the door were giving the car funny looks and then peeled off from the queue and walked down and around the car to look at the back to find out what the hell it was.

[GoldZilla]

I got asked by the cashier at my local United (I've been trying the Boost 98) servo what it was yesterday, and he seemed pretty keen...

[Herbietjh]

Got my Autech on the road yesterday and already there have been 3 different times where people have asked me what the hell it is....twice at the lights and once at the servo........i tell em its a volvo on steriods......the classic was my mum, who told me that she was happy i'd finally bought a "sensible" car because it is a family wagon....i just laughed!

[Silverback]

Looking forward to seeing the pics of the new beast soon

[GoldZilla]

Got my Autech on the road yesterday and already there have been 3 different times where people have asked me what the hell it is....twice at the lights and once at the servo........i tell em its a volvo on steriods......the classic was my mum, who told me that she was happy i'd finally bought a "sensible" car because it is a family wagon....i just laughed!

Hahaha, your mum thinks it's a sensible car! When it's complied and on the road properly, you might have to try a hard launch with her in the car and see what she says - get ready to duck away from the backhander, though!

Then again, I've been using mine to transport heaps of tables and chairs in the past few days. I managed to quite comfortably fit 4 large fold-up tables and 20 plastic chairs into one trip yesterday!

[mcnamg]

Hahaha, your mum thinks it's a sensible car! When it's complied and on the road properly, you might have to try a hard launch with her in the car and see what she says - get ready to duck away from the backhander, though!

Then again, I've been using mine to transport heaps of tables and chairs in the past few days. I managed to quite comfortably fit 4 large fold-up tables and 20 plastic chairs into one trip yesterday!

For some reason my wife has not been too keen to drive it until the other day when we were going somewhere with her sister following in another car and they pulled up next to us to turn onto the highway. The onramp goes from 2 lanes into one and I didnt want to get stuck behind their truck (holden jackaroo) so as soon as i was aorund the corner and pointing down the onramp i floored it up to the speed limit. My wife turned to me in shock and said i didnt know it could do that after it had blasted down the ramp at warp speed and then asked when she could drive. now i will never get the keys back she is a more agressive driver than I am

[JAV360]

I must admit the attention you get from owning a stag is good but sometimes it just gives me the sh$ts. Especially when you"ve got some captain know it all spinning some crap in your ear when he doesn't know JACK.

I love the sound of snapping necks when you're cruisin around tho, if only the front windows were as tinted as the rear ones so you can't see the tool in falcadore with one eye brow raised and the confused look on his face.