[V8] Who's 4.2 V8, Ohio plate FMZ 3694

[Nicholas Miller]

Sounds like you need to be looking for a kid on motorgeek... haha Sadly, a
pretty nice 4.2 went to a 19yo punk kid in WA a few months back as well.
Never know.
On Apr 29, 2012 9:26 AM, <KeithT1967 at aol.com> wrote:

> Well the situation went like this....
>
>  Moderately heavy traffic, three lanes each direction. I'm traveling  the
> right lane with a car in the middle lane maybe 20ft ahead moving about the
> same speed and a line of cars in the left lane. I see the V8 coming down
> the
> middle lane well above the speed limit. I think, what does he think he's
> going  to do? Then it was "sh*t, he's going to try getting between me and
> that
> car." I  come off the throttle to ride the jakes and apply brake... and
> didn't even get  to reach the brake. He darted between us and I seriously
> thought he was going to  catch my bumper. I literally lost sight of
> everything
> except his hood. My  bumper isnt one of these modern plastic or thin
> aluminum
> things, its 12 gauge  steel, boxed ends, and 18" tall. Had he caught it he
> would have wrapped around  the nose of my truck.
>
>  After he cleared me he charged up on another truck in the right  lane and
> then darted between two trucks traveling the center lane. The  rear truck
> was a "covered wagon" (flatbed with a sidekit). The covered wagon  locked
> his
> brakes and he happened to be on a very rough section of the wonderful  MI
> highway. The combo of air ride, locked brakes, and rough road made the
> trailer buck and whip.... and that is how you get a pair of 15,000lb rated
>  chains
> to snap and a suicide loaded 23 ton coil of steel shifting.
>
>  How few 4.2 V8's there are and how high a percentage are in the hands  of
> members of Audifans, Audiworld, and Motorgeek is why I was hoping I could
> track down the driver. I know a couple of truck drivers and a trucking
> company  that would love to have a chat with him.
>
>
> In a message dated 4/29/2012 12:32:47 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> oneluvquattro at gmail.com writes:
>
> I  thought the west coast drivers where bad till I moved back to
> Cleveland a  few months ago. Big rigs aren't anything to fool with.
> Ironic considering  how few there are and that it was in front of  you.
>
>
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